The Turks and Caicos Islands government has signed a development agreement with Desarrollos Hotel Group to build a $224 million hotel, resort, casino and spa project in the British Overseas Territory, Caribbean Journal has learned.

New York-based First in Service Travel (F1S), a branch of Tzell Travel Group, has officially opened its Miami office on 1110 Brickell Ave and joined the Virtuoso luxury travel network.

Travel giant Expedia is making big moves in Haiti. The company reported this week that it had been making a “significant” expansion in Haiti, as the country looks to build its tourism sector.

There’s a big new project coming to Portmore, Jamaica. Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced this week that the former Forum Hotel had been purchased by a Jamaican private sector group called Portmore Marina Development for $3.05 million USD.

The U.S. lodging industry will continue to achieve very strong growth in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) during both 2015 and 2016 according to the recently released March 2015 edition of PKF Hospitality Research’s (PKF-HR) Hotel Horizons (PKF-HR is a CBRE company).

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, parent company of Crystal Cruises’ since its inception in 1988, has announced it has entered into an agreement with Genting Hong Kong to sell the organization. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015.