Tourism and hospitality training and education have been offered by institutions within the Caribbean since as early as the 1950s, and have become solidified within the academy due to the region becoming the most tourism-dependent in the world. Given the thriving nature of the tourism industry within the Caribbean, there has been an increase in demand for tourism and hospitality positions to be filled; realization of this demand has seen an increase in the number of institutions which provide tourism and hospitality education within the Caribbean. As such, the ability of education practitioners to monitor and ensure the quality of tourism and hospitality education that is being offered to prospective students is of critical importance. The purpose of this paper therefore is to examine the quality of tourism and hospitality programmes in the Caribbean through a comparative analysis based on key factors in the literature that have been accepted as best practice. The findings of this study revealed that Caribbean tourism and hospitality programmes compare well to its developed country counterparts in the areas of regionalism and action-based learning in the classroom, but are relatively weak in the areas of internationalization, specializations, flexibility and combinations, and internship programmes. The paper concludes by assessing the future needs of tourism and hospitality education within the Caribbean.