Live and let live is the theme of www.gaycuracao.com, an alternate lifestyle website for gay visitors to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao.
The website is specifically developed to showcase the island as a gay friendly destination. It is a unique and in-depth resource for the gay traveler looking for a little help in navigating the island and knowing where to stay and what to do and see.
The political opposition in Turks and Caicos is slamming the government of Prime Minister Michael Misick for allowing a cruise ship carrying 2,000 gay and lesbian tourists to dock in Grand Turk.
Derek Taylor, the opposition leading figure of the People´s Democratic Movement (PDM), condemned what he believed were the actions of a financially and morally bankrupt government that was prepared to prostitute our future all in the name of development and financial gain, he said.
China has signed an agreement to join UNESCO in the Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technology in Support of the World Heritage Convention.
The signing - by Guo Huadong, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of its Joint Laboratory for Remote Sensing Archaeology, and Marcio Barbosa, Deputy Director-General of UNESCO – took place at Organization Headquarters on April 13.
The ex-Soviet republic of Belarus joined the World Tourism Organization (WTO) April 8, becoming the group´s 146th member state and 41st European participant.
WTO regional representative for Europe Luigi Cabrini became the first representative of an international organization to address the parliament of Belarus, which unanimously ratified the country´s accession to the group.
Avianca, the Colombian-flag airline, garnered 304 million pesos ($127.4 million) in gains in the course of last year after enduring losses of nearly 310 million pesos ($111.4 million) back in 2003.
Scuba diving tourism in the Caribbean could lose up to 85 percent of its gains by the year 2015 if the destruction of coral reefs goes on unnoticed, that according to a report issued by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think-tank.