Tourism is booming on Easter Island. With the height of the summer tourist season still three months away, flights and hotel rooms in “The World’s Navel” are already becoming a scarce commodity.

The Tourism4Peace Forum (T4PF) remounted its website at http://www.tourism4peace.org/ in addition to its previous address http://www.tourism4peace.com/.

Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa officially unveiled its 180-suite, $70 million Mediterranean Village during a three-day grand opening celebration being held from October 4 to 7. Attendees included celebrities, entertainers, government officials and industry partners; the event was hosted by Gordon “Butch” Stewart, Sandals Resorts’ chairman.

A 12-story, 473-room Crowne Plaza hotel at the Toronto Pearson International Airport will open this month as InterContinental Hotels Group announced. The Crowne Plaza Toronto Airport is owned and managed by Royal Equator Inc., under a license agreement with a company in the InterContinental Hotels Group.

A passenger was stung by a scorpion while on board a scheduled flight from San Jose in Costa Rica to Madrid in Spain.

Carnival Cruise Lines has exercised its option to extend its berthing agreement with the Port of New Orleans for another two years. The extension will keep Carnival sailing year-round from the Crescent City through October 26, 2010.