For the first time, Travel Impressions will offer vacation packages throughout Canada, with trips that range from British Columbia in the west to the Atlantic Maritimes of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in the east.

Worldspan’s Brazilian consolidator network showed a significant expansion through new partnerships with two of Brazil’s air travel consolidators. Sua Viagem and Confianca signed five-year strategic agreements with Worldspan to make their airline partners’ products and services available to Worldspan travel agencies throughout Brazil.

Dominica continues to live up to its tagline as the place to “Defy the Everyday,” this time as the location for CBS Television Network’s new reality-based series, “Pirate Master.”

As if last week’s scandal, involving unscrupulous Hong Kong jewelers peddling fake high-end jewelry and watches to the mainlanders at “genuine” prices was not enough bad news, another technique of separating Chinese visitors from their money is on the rise -pickpockets, the South China Morning Post reported.

International passenger traffic demand rose 7.8 percent year-on-year according to new traffic results released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for March 2007. This is the largest year-on-year single month increase recorded in a year. Average international passenger load factors remained high at 76.4 percent.

Luis Fernandez, Senior Vice President of Hotel Operations for Kor Hotel Group, the Los Angeles-based hotel, real estate development and management firm, announced four new senior management appointments to the company’s growing assets in Mexico.