Pleasant Holidays launched a fall sale to the Hawaiian Islands and top Mexico destinations, including Cancun, Los Cabos and Vallarta. The sale features discounted airfares and added values valid for travel through December 13.

Spa Finder, Inc., the global spa resource, announced that the Larimar Spa at Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino has been named among the top 10 best spas in the world for the “Best Water Sports” category in its fifth annual Spa Finders Readers’ Choice Awards.

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has announced the appointment of John Lynch as chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). A 30-year veteran of tourism, Lynch has been a steady force for many of the Caribbean’s most visible travel brands, including the country of Jamaica, where he has served over the last four years on the marketing subcommittee of the JTB’s board of directors.

Dutch tourist drowned while on a white-water rafting trip down the Padas River in Malaysia. Bianca De Visser De Vries, 42, was thrown off the raft with six others including her husband. Her body was found the same day, the Tenom Police Department said last week.

The Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort & Casino launched an outreach project on October 19 called “Bo Tambe por! Bo Tambe por!,” which is Papiamento (the local Aruban language) for “You can do it, too.”

A group of 35 young people have now been enlisted into the latest installment of the Tourism Cadet Corps program. The initiative was reconvened earlier this week, with a commencement ceremony that saw the introduction of 35 newly recruited cadets to the 2007-2008 program.