Antigua and Barbuda sells itself on its coastline, with the “365 beaches” tourism promise, and on the sea, from the historic docks of English Harbour to the pink sand of Barbuda. Most of the country’s businesses talk to two audiences at once: residents across Antigua and Barbuda, and a much larger circle of visitors, yacht owners, investors and clients who live in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. Mailpro gives you one place to reach both, by email and by text message.
A connected, mobile-first market
DataReportal’s Digital 2025 report put internet use at 77.6% of the population at the start of 2025, with around 202,000 mobile connections, about 215% of the population. In other words, many people carry more than one phone or SIM. Your newsletters will mostly be opened on a small screen, so every Mailpro template is built to adapt to mobile, and SMS sits beside email in the same account.
What Mailpro does for Antiguan and Barbudan businesses
Newsletters and email campaigns
Design with the drag-and-drop builder or start from more than 600 newsletter templates, then send email campaigns to segmented lists: past guests, repeat charter clients, local customers. Schedule each version for the recipient’s morning and follow opens and clicks as they come in.
Automated emails
Welcome a new subscriber, send a pre-arrival checklist a week before check-in, or follow up after a stay with a review request. Automated emails run on the triggers and dates you set, which helps small teams during the busy winter season.
SMS marketing
Text +1-268 numbers and your guests’ overseas phones from the same platform. SMS marketing in Antigua and Barbuda covers number formats, consent and timing. In Mailpro’s own customer survey, SMS deliverability was rated 9.8/10.
Forms and surveys
Collect sign-ups, event registrations and enquiries with online forms, and measure guest satisfaction with online surveys that feed straight into your contact lists.
SMTP and email API
Booking engines, e-commerce sites and client portals can send confirmations and receipts through Mailpro’s SMTP server or email API. In Mailpro’s own customer survey, email deliverability was rated 9.6/10.
Contacts and CRM
Keep contacts, custom fields and campaign history together with Mailpro’s CRM features for businesses, so the knowledge of who your regular guests and clients are does not leave when seasonal staff do.
Built around the sectors that drive the economy
- Tourism and hospitality: resorts, villas, restaurants and tour operators use email to fill quieter weeks and SMS for arrivals and day-of changes.
- Yachting: charter brokers, marinas, chandleries and provisioning services in English Harbour, Falmouth Harbour and Jolly Harbour plan around the winter season and the April regattas.
- Citizenship by Investment: licensed agents, developers of approved real-estate projects and law firms keep international applicants informed with clear, professional updates.
- Financial services: banks, insurers and international business firms send statements, notices and newsletters where security and data location matter.
- Local retail and services: shops, supermarkets, pharmacies and clinics in St. John’s and around the island run loyalty offers and reminders for residents.
A year of campaign moments
Local dates give your emails a reason to arrive. Plan around Antigua Sailing Week at the end of April, Barbuda’s Caribana at Whitsun, Antigua Carnival from late July to early August, Independence Day on 1 November, and V. C. Bird Day on 9 December. The winter high season, when North American and European visitors escape the cold, is the busiest period for many tourism businesses, while the June-to-November hurricane season calls for clear, calm operational messages about closures and rebooking.
Sending across time zones and currencies
Antigua and Barbuda keeps Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) all year. That matches New York in summer, is an hour ahead of it in winter, and sits four or five hours behind London. A campaign aimed at UK guests should leave in the early morning island time; one aimed at Californians can wait until the afternoon. Prices need the same care: tourism businesses often quote in US dollars, while local retailers price in Eastern Caribbean dollars (XCD). Say which one you mean in every offer.
Consent first, under local and foreign law
Antigua and Barbuda does not have a dedicated anti-spam law, but its Data Protection Act, 2013 requires consent to process personal data, and your overseas contacts bring their own rules, from the GDPR to CAN-SPAM and CASL. Our email marketing law guide for Antigua and Barbuda explains what that means in practice. Mailpro helps with double opt-in, unsubscribe handling and authenticated sending.
Why Swiss hosting matters to an Antiguan business
Mailpro has been developed by Maxony in Geneva since 2001. Your data is hosted on private infrastructure in Switzerland, outside US jurisdiction, connections are encrypted with TLS 1.3, and your contacts are never sold or rented. The Data Protection Act asks businesses to consider where personal data is stored and to choose processors that give real security guarantees; Swiss hosting gives you a clear answer. Switzerland also holds an EU adequacy decision, which helps when your lists include European guests. Read more on why Switzerland.
Getting started
- Create an account and claim your 500 free credits.
- Import your existing contacts, keeping only people who agreed to hear from you.
- Pick a template, add your own photos of the islands, and send a test to yourself.
- Send your first campaign, then check the report to see who opened and clicked.
Simple pricing
Mailpro is priced by the emails and texts you send, not by how many contacts you store, which suits seasonal businesses with large guest lists and uneven sending. The platform is available in six languages. In Mailpro’s own customer survey, ease of use was rated 9.3/10.