. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Sales Up in Caribbean By LEWIS MANUEL MEDINA "Could you pass the cranberry sauce, please?" Decades ago, those words were unheard in the Caribbean. Today the sales of cranberry products are up. Why? One major reason is that Americans are taking vacations closer to home. And the Eastern Caribbean or West Indies Region is benefitting from that fact. According to the Barbados based Caribbean Tourism Association, the number of tourists in 1988 was 10 mil- lion. And that number is expected to continue growing. Most of
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Sales Up in Caribbean By LEWIS MANUEL MEDINA "Could you pass the cranberry sauce, please?" Decades ago, those words were unheard in the Caribbean. Today the sales of cranberry products are up. Why? One major reason is that Americans are taking vacations closer to home. And the Eastern Caribbean or West Indies Region is benefitting from that fact. According to the Barbados based Caribbean Tourism Association, the number of tourists in 1988 was 10 mil- lion. And that number is expected to continue growing. Most of those tourists are Americans, followed by Canadians. More Ameri- cans mean that more hotel restaurants are serving cranberries and cranberry juices. With the importation of more cranberries, more natives become familiar with the fruit. Another factor is the large migration of Caribbean natives to the About million Puerto Ricans live on the mainland. So do about million from other places in the Caribbean. About 2 million people in Puerto Rico had once lived in the Among the influences of all this travel has been a familiarity with cranber- ries. Those who have lived in the or return to visit their homeland expect to find cranberries in Puerto Rican supermarkets. Hence, availabihty of cranberry products increases. The most common cranberry products are fruit drinks, including both cran- berry and mixed drinks. How much is consumed? That's hard to say since cranberries are not a local crop nor are they processed locally, so little track is kept of them. What is known is that Puerto Rico provides the biggest market, followed by the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. Respectably increasing their consumption are the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saba, Saint Eusta- quius. Saint Marteen, Saint Martin, Aruba, Bonaire and Curazao. Other nations with still low consumption are the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis
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