Following the merger of TUI Travel PLC and TUI AG, TUI Travel Accommodation & Destinations announced that it will be called Hotelbeds Group.

Sky Airline (Chile) and AviancaTaca Holdings have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in which the Colombian group will acquire a controlling 59 percent stake in the Chilean carrier. Sky's operations will continue to focus on domestic Chilean and regional South American flights.

In a statement the airline thanked the Russian ministry of finance, the transport ministry, the Federal Air Transport Agency, and the State Corporation Bank for Development for their financial support.

Cuba has long been off limits to most Americans, with US tourists to the country allowed under 12 tightly regulated categories of travel by the US government. The island nation is of great interest to the cruise industry, however, which is dominated in the Caribbean by American passengers.