— -- Haiti, known mainly for its natural disasters, starving citizens and government corruption scandals, is hoping to leave its tumultuous past behind and re-invent itself as an investment and ...

* World's largest cruise ship to visit Haiti * Slave leader's stone fortress key for historic tours * Venezuela to help build second international airport By Joseph Guyler Delva LABADEE, Haiti, Oct 6 ...

Before last week’s earthquake, Haiti was just beginning to capitalize on the weather, location and tropical scenery that have turned many of its Caribbean neighbors into vacation paradises. Before ...

According to the latest report of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) regarding the number of tourist arrivals, Haiti recorded in 2013, a growth of over 20%. According to the latest report of the ...

MILOT, Haiti — The tour guides were waiting with bony, undersized horses to carry travelers to Haiti's historic Citadelle Laferriere, one of the most impressive mountaintop fortresses in the world.

ILE-A-VACHE, Haiti (Reuters) - For decades the mostly dirt-poor residents of the small island of Ile-à-Vache off Haiti's south coast lived in anonymity, virtually ignored by the government and visited ...

As gang warfare, fuel shortages, kidnappings and other crises cripple Haiti, it’s hard to push the Caribbean country as a tourist destination. But that’s exactly what a group of Haitian Americans is ...

IN HAITI, I recently saw a tow car yank a Ford off its chassis and tow the body on to the garage, unaware that most of the car hadn’t moved. In a small coastal town, I saw a hotelkeeper peer ...

With flaming barricades and widespread looting, 10 days of street violence in Haiti have all but buried a tourism industry that managed to resurrect itself after a devastating earthquake in 2010. Ugly ...

Earthquakes. Cholera. Grinding poverty. AIDS. Political upheaval. Most news about Haiti isn’t exactly the cheerful stuff of tourism brochures. But underneath the tiresome tales of suffering and ...