Compass Point Dive Resort, located on the east end of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands announced the completion of the second phase of the property’s construction, which introduces a variety of upscale room types, including Three-Bedroom Penthouse Suites and One-Bedroom Deluxe categories.
Accelerating its global portfolio growth, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announced this week’s opening of its first Westin hotel in South America -- The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center in Peru. Located in San Isidro, the financial and shopping hub of Lima, Peru, The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center features 301 rooms and the largest meeting and convention facilities in Peru.
Puerto Rico’s Verdanza Hotel is offering a summer promotion featuring daily breakfast and a fourth night free. The package also offers free accommodations for two children under age 16 sharing a room with adults, and free meals at the resort’s Eighty20 Bistro for children under age 5. Guests who book a four-person excursion with Castillo Tours pay for only three guests on selected tours.
Travel Agent chatted on Wednesday morning with Christian Rodriguez, director of sales and marketing for Villa de Palmar Cancun Mujeres Beach Resort, the Cancun area’s first ever Villa Group property.
Sandals and Beaches Resorts Chairman Gordon “Butch” Stewart and other Sandals representatives in New York Tuesday afternoon told Travel Agent’s Joe Pike the Caribbean all-inclusive giant is still actively pursuing a possible expansion into Mexico. “This is something we’ve actually been trying to do since ‘87 and ‘88,” Stewart told Pike, “but we are still hunting.”
Spanish hotel and resort company Sol Meliá announced that it is to open its first regional hotel in Dubai. The Meliá Dubai, a 164-room “urban resort,” will open on Oct. 12, 2011, to coincide with national day in Spain.




