Beginning on New Year’s Day, Spanish travel agencies will charge customers extra money for the purchase of Iberia plane tickets. The new return system agreed by both the air carrier’s front office and the management of the Travel Agency Association of Spain also sets step-by-step cutbacks on commissions as follow: 3 percent for the first quarter of 2004, 2 percent for the second quarter, 1.5 percent for the first half of 2005, and a 1 percent fixed rate from July that same year on.
The Wyndham Aruba Beach Resort & Casino, has been recognized for excellence by the American Automobile Association with the coveted AAA Four Diamond Award for 2003.
The Wyndham Aruba Beach Resort & Casino is one of only four hotels on the island to earn the celebrated rating and joins a growing number of Wyndham properties to receive praise for exceptional service.
Cuba continues to be one of the Caribbean’s premiere choices for the Spanish tourist market and there are good reasons to believe that. The presence in Cuba of El Corte Ingles Travel’s top-100 salespeople –an incentive program pieced together by Club Amigos and sponsored by Sol Meliá Hotels, Iberia Airlines and Avis car rental- is no doubt a case in point.
Uruguay has taken precautions to prevent Argentine violence –chiefly the now trendy express kidnappings- from shooing travelers away from its coastlines, especially from Punta del Este, the country’s number-one beach circuit, where hundreds of thousands of Argentines and Brazilians flock to every southern summertime season.
In an effort to lift the number of flights from South American travel destinations, members of the Aviation Committee appointed by the government of Trinidad & Tobago have just wrapped up a tour around several countries that included meetings with executives from the region’s major airlines.
The delegation was presided over by Brian Harry, president of Tourism and Industrial Development; Neil Wilson, secretary of Tourism, Transportation and Entrepreneurial Development of the island nation’s Parliament, and Anslem London, the Parliament’s secretary of Finance.
Very much in line with its international strategy of expanding and streamlining managerial operations in Spain, Festival Cruises Co. has just appointed Carlos Lopez Guerra as new director-general. With a longstanding career under his belt as an executive in international tourism, Mr. Guerra served a stint as Director of Sales for Accor Co. in Southern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East before jumping on the Festival’s bandwagon.