The 375-room Hilton Los Cabos is poised to wrap up its multimillion-dollar renovation in time for the busy winter season. Under new owner Beny Alagem, who also owns the Beverly Hilton, the Hilton Los Cabos is hoping to enter the luxury market with a $9 million budget and the help of designer Paul Duesing of Paul Duesing Partners, who also designed the luxury One & Only Palmilla in Los Cabos and the Palms in Turks & Caicos.

Set to debut in March 2007 in St. Thomas is the $150 million Yacht Haven Grande complex near the cruise ship terminal at Havensight in Charlotte Amalie. The new development is on the site of the former Yacht Haven Hotel which, although destroyed by hurricanes in 1995, remained standing for years while legal battles raged and visitors gaped at the eyesore.

The Peruvian government has started restoration work on Cahuachi, an archaeological site 286 miles south of Lima. The restoration work is expected to be finished somewhere in the year 2011. Cahuachi is an ancient city believed to have been founded between 400 A.D. and 450 A.D. as a ceremonial center for religious leaders. It’s also believed to have been connected to the mysterious Nazca Lines, a series of giant drawings in the ground 14 miles from the ancient city.

Half Moon, a flagship Jamaican hotel, recently earned the Green Globe Benchmark Certificate and is now well on its way to being Green Globe Certified, an internationally recognized award for environmental excellence. The Green Globe Benchmark program has several criteria that the resort passed before receiving Benchmarked status. The criteria included waste water recycling, paper recycling and community involvement as well as having a comprehensive and sustainable environmental policy for which the resort rated very highly.

Celebrity Cruises has confirmed that a 73-year old British citizen, a man traveling solo on the Century, is missing. The Celebrity notified the British Embassy authorities, the Portuguese maritime police, the Bahamian maritime authorities, and the FBI, and said it is fully cooperating with all authorities.

Corporations in China spent $7.41 billion on air travel in 2005, making China the fourth biggest business travel market in the world, according to the results of American Express Business Travel’s China Business Travel Survey, according to the World Tourism Barometer. Released during the second American Express China Business Travel Forum (CBTF) in Shanghai, findings of the Barometer revealed that Travel & Entertainment (T&E) has become the second largest controllable costs for organizations accounting for 24 percent of total controllable expenses. Findings of the Barometer provided organizations, vendors and suppliers with the latest information of the T&E management practices and outlook of the market for 2007 in China. This is the third business travel survey conducted by American Express in China. The last two surveys were announced in 2003 and 2005.