Dominica

(Dive Travel Business News - May 28, 2011) -- Preparations are underway for the Caribbean's longest running diving festival — Dominica's 18th annual Dive Fest — scheduled for July 8-17, 2011. Experienced and beginner divers alike will flock to the island, which lies south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique in the Eastern Caribbean, for one of the most fascinating diving experiences in the Caribbean. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - November 2, 2010) -- Castle Comfort Lodge is a small, intimate dive resort sitting on the waters edge in Dominica. Castle Comfort Dive Lodge/Dive Dominica is offering special rates and incentives during May, June, July, August and October 2011. With only 15 rooms, Castle Comfort's group special is geared to small groups: For five paying divers, the sixth diver is free. Retailers earn more than $450 in commission based on five paying divers.

Castle Comfort and Dive Dominica are now operated by the third generation brother and sister management team of Arienne (Ari) and Daniel Perryman.   Dive Dominica offers five custom built dive boats that bring you to the dive site in only 20 minutes. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - May 10, 2010 ) -- Travel writer Annie Kazel Wilcox has been a scuba diver for over 20 years. Her dive travels have spanned Baja and Bali, the Mediterranean, Australia's Great Barrier Reef and more. In this Special Article to the Miami Herald, Kazel-Wilcox spells out her favorite Caribbean diving haunts. Here is a summary of her Top 10 Caribbean Dive Sites: 

1.The Elbow, Turneffe Island, Belize
2. Ocean Blue Hole, Andros Island, Bahamas
3. Wreck of the Antilla, Aruba
4. Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
5. Mareau Gardens, Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
6. Wreck of the RMS Rhone, Tortola, BVI
7. Carvel Rock, St. John, USVI
8. Wreck of the Bianca C, Grenada
9. Northstar, St. Croix, USVI
10. Champagne, Dominica read more »

(DiveTravelBusinessNews.com - Jan 16, 2010) -- Castle Comfort Lodge’s Reef and Rainforest Adventure Package is good now through October 31, 2010.

The package includes seven nights’ accommodations, daily breakfast, round-trip airport transfers, complimentary use of sea kayaks, one afternoon whale and dolphin excursion, three days of two-tank boat dives, three days of morning tours/hikes and unlimited shore dives off the dock. Rates begin at $975 per person based on double occupancy.

For more information, call 888-414-7626, email divedominica@diveres.com or visit www.castlecomfortdivelodge.com.  For general destination information, call 866-522-4057 or visit www.discoverdominica.com.

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(May 29, 2008 - DTN) --The Caribbean’s longest running scuba diving festival, Dominica’s Dive Fest is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the annual event to take place July 11 – 20, 2008.

Many of Dominica’s dive centres are offering a ‘buy seven, get one free’ offer on diving and accommodation packages during Dive Fest. These include: Dive Dominica and Castle Comfort Lodge, Nature Island Dive and Evergreen Hotel, Al Dive, Sunset Bay Club, Cabrits Dive Centre and Anchorage Hotel & Dive Centre.  Full terms and conditions, available dates, plus details of other special offers can be found at www.dominicawatersports.com. read more »

November 17, 2008 (Travel Mole.com) -- Jungle Bay Resort & Spa has been shortlisted in the Poverty Reduction category at the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2008. 

The nature resort, in the southeast of Dominica, employs most of its staff from local villages and provides financial backing to many projects in the area. It also operates the Southeast Entrepreneur Loan Fund (SELF) which allows up to 15 local entrepreneurs to borrow up to EC$12,000 (approx: ) for business activities such as organic produce, local arts and crafts production and guiding of cultural tours and hikes that can contribute to the Jungle Bay services. 

Dominica, itself, proved its position as a world leader in sustainable tourism by receiving a nomination at the World Travel Awards Green Awards in the Best Green Destination category (October 2008). Dominica was the only country besides Costa Rica, the eventual winner, to be selected for nomination.

Dominica is a dive destination that offers sustainable adventure above as well as below. 

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