The $1.4 billion acquisition of Worldspan, L.P. has been completed by Travelport Limited, the parent company of the Travelport group of companies, as the company revealed.

Poor visitor numbers at its Hong Kong theme park may force Disney to seek refinancing of its share of the joint-venture project with the Hong Kong government. If it does, plans to build a new theme park in Shanghai will be postponed.

The Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Our Lucaya Resort named Amina Hassan as director of group sales. Hassan comes to the Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island from the Westin Harbor Castle Hotel in Toronto, where she served as account director managing sales efforts in key market segments and handling $8 million of the property’s $21 million annual booking goal.

Oneworld threw its weight behind a campaign to attract thousands of additional visitors to Budapest this winter. The “Budapest Winter Invasion”, which runs from 1 December 2007 to 31 March 2008, is being coordinated by the Hungarian National Tourist Office (HNTO) with the alliance’s latest recruit Malev Hungarian Airlines, plus the Hotel Association of Hungary and Budapest Airport.

The Pentagon’s Defense Travel System, which has been under fire for years as a money-wasting experiment, will use ITA Software’s QPX air pricing and shopping tool as part of a DTS initiative to make the e-travel system for civilian and military employees more efficient.

Divi Resorts in Aruba has announced that three of their Aruba properties have received the prestigious Three Diamond Award from the American Automobile Association. Divi Aruba Phoenix Beach Resort is located on Aruba’s famed Palm Beach.