The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) will keep applications for a number of tourism-oriented training courses open from March 1 through 5. The package includes four-quarter and three-quarter courses available to the public. Applicants are not required to have taken previous courses on the subject matter.

Some of the four-quarter courses will deal with Integrated Alternative Tourism, Recreation and Tourism, Hotel Recreation, Designing and Management of Cultural-Tourist Products, Travel Agency Management, and Hotel Management.

Some one million potential British visitors to the region now have a key source of information that will help them decide on their Caribbean vacations: a 24-page Caribbean Travel Magazine.

This colorful and informative publication, newly launched by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), was first distributed in January as a supplement in Britain’s leading mid-market Sunday paper, the Mail on Sunday.

After a successful tenure as Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau for nine years, Jorge Pesquera has left that post to become Director of the Aruba Hotel Association (AHATA) from next March onward.

Cayo Largo del Sur, the most important travel circuit in southwestern Cuba, is buttressing as a destination that now averages 1,600 vacationers per day, most of them hailing from Germany, Italy, Canada, Argentina and Spain that arrive on the key aboard six direct flights landing at the Vilo Acuña International Airport.

Dozens of websites from abroad are advertising sexual tourism in Rio de Janeiro by resorting to guides, videos and all kinds of offers in a wicked effort to lure those looking for “easy pleasure.”

In anticipation to the ITB Fair in Berlin next March, Germany-based TUI –Europe’s largest tour operator- is conducting a promotional blitz entitled The Mexico Month at its Interactive Travel Center in the nation’s capital, not far from the Brandenburg Gate.

The Mexico Month has been underway since February 8 and will come to a close on March 16. Experts hope the promotional effort will provide Mexico with an additional offer within the framework of the International Tourism Fair in Berlin.