Results from last year’s edition of EIBTM, an annual global meetings and incentives exhibition in the city of Barcelona, Spain, have been overwhelmingly positive and demonstrated a healthy boom in business for the industry at all levels.
Javier Aranda Pedrero has become Director of Tourism for the Riviera Maya Tourism Promotion Board (FPTRM).
Throughout their history of poverty and political turmoil, Peruvians have been fiercely proud of their elaborate, spicy food and new superstar chefs are now a magnet for culinary tourists.
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of companies which includes airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic, bought his second Caribbean island in the British Virgin Islands for $13.2 million and plans to turn it into a luxury eco-friendly, environmentally-savvy resort.
New Orleans, which continues to recover slowly from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, celebrated its second Mardi Gras since the storm hit with a larger turnout than last year and at least 95 percent of its hotel rooms filled, officials said.
Millions of airline passengers are stuck in planes on the ground every year at US airports with nearly 60,000 departures delayed between one and two hours in 2006, government figures show.