Meka Monitor...tracking top tourism news in the month of May

1. Not good for business: Jamaica loses over US$300m in tourism revenue in wake of civil unrest as police search for alleged drug dealer

2. Jamaica tourist board pulls promotional ads temporarily as unrest makes worldwide headlines

3. In a snap: Trinidad and Tobago celebrates a new government after former Prime Minister calls a snap election and his party suffers a massive loss. Rupert Griffith is the new tourism minister.

4. Can we exhale?: The new coalition government in the UK reviews Airport Tax Duty

5. Roll the dice: Jamaica legalises casinos

6. Moving on up: Cuba on its way to becoming the number one tourism destination in the Caribbean

7. Hello?: Tourism slump in the Caribbean results in low revenues for Cable and Wireless

8. Rolling out the samba mat: Barbados woos Brazilians

9. Better and bigger: Alan Chastanet, St Lucia's tourism and travel minister, promises the 20th anniversary of St Lucia Jazz in 2011 would be memorable.

10.Big plans: Martinique's new tourism minister Karine Roy-Camille aims to increase visitor arrivals to 600,000 from just over 400,000 a year.