Boutique Hotels & Resorts International has announced the appointment of Stacy Dreyfus to the post of Global Sales Director. With the constant growth of authentic member hotels and the continued need to introduce travel professionals of these genuine hotels, Boutique appointed a new Chicago-based Global Sales Director.

Hundreds of Manhattan buses will be outfitted with surveillance cameras as part of a security upgrade prompted by bomb attacks on public transit in London and Madrid. New York City Transit officials said the initiative will begin to bring New York into line with other big cities that have put cameras on buses and trains in recent years.

Grenada is to put together an action plan to implement the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization following its recent inspection of island´s aviation services. The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism´s Civil Aviation Officer, Earl Charles, reportedly said that the audit inspection was not to give a pass or fail grade but was one that was designed to determine the island compliance regarding implementation of standards as outlined in the Convention on International Civil Aviation and to determine the extent to which the island´s implementation of its security system is sustainable through established legislation.

America´s Apple Vacations announced the recent appointments Kevin Martin and Brad Panik as director of sales for the Eastern USA and associate director of sales and agent relations, respectively. Mr. Martin began his career with Apple Vacations in 2003 as Regional Sales Manager for the Philadelphia territory and most recently served as Product Manager for the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

The tourism sector in St Kitts and Nevis continued to record strong growth for the third successive year in 2005, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has reported. The growth in tourism was facilitated by favorable global economic performance, particularly the United States, and large tourism related development investments locally.

When the Norwegian Spirit sets sail last week for Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas, it will say bon voyage to Miami as a port of call because the New York-based cruise ship no longer plans to visit Miami. Miami, the world´s cruise capital, remains little more than a place where people begin and end their cruises. No ships call regularly on Port Everglades in Broward County, also a busy cruise departure point.