Pueblo Bonito Oceanfront Resorts & Spas, which has seven Mexico properties in its collection, has created a 2008 bonus commission program for travel agents. Pueblo Bonita operates four properties in Cabo San Lucas, two in Mazatlan and one in Puerto Vallarta.

ASTA appointed Scott Koepf president of the National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents. Koepf, who replaces NACTA founder Joanie Ogg, will start on April 1.

Sabre Travel Network is enhancing its Sabre Cruises platform to improve travel agents search, booking, marketing and customer service capabilities.

UK airports handled 241 million passengers during 2007, according to figures published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This represents an increase of 2.4 percent on 2006. This growth is slower than that seen over the last decade and continues a trend which began in 2005.

Mexican police hunting drug gangs seized a cache of automatic weapons and grenade launchers at a luxury flat in the Caribbean resort of Cancun last week, near hotels full of foreign tourists.

Delta Air Lines customers and employees rallied to raise half a million dollars through donations and pink product sales for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding innovative clinical and translational research to find ways to prevent and cure breast cancer.