Fernando Conte, who until very recently served as independent counselor for Iberia and executive deputy president f the Asea Brown Boven Group in Spain (ABB), will be Iberia’s new president as soon as Xavier de Irala steps down at the helm of the airline’s front office on June 12.

Following the grand opening of SPA Club La Casa Verde in Cienfuegos run by Cubanacan’s Health & Tourism Co., there are now three such resorts in Cuba keen to providing service to those interested in improving their health and physical welfare. There are development plans in the offing to open three more such resorts in the course of the ongoing year.

Dominican cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez called on governmental authorities to kick unashamed visitors out of the country to prevent them from rotting the nation’s childhood, the local newspaper Listin Diario informed.

The chief of the Dominican Catholic Church stated the kind of tourism that surfaces in the realm of brazenness, no matter how wealthy it might be, does nothing but harm to any country or destination that harbors it because its moral standards are close to nothing.

Hoteliers in the Californian city of San Francisco are following in the footsteps of NYC’s former mayor Rudolph Giuliani who swept beggars off the Big Apple through an aggressive campaign that barred tourists from handing them out any alms. “Today, we ride streetcars, drop in on Alcatraz Prison and help drug junkies with their addictions,” reads a billboard that features a couple of tourists with the famed Golden Gate Bridge serving as backdrop.

The Caribbean Hotels Association (CHA) and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) sign three-year agreement to work together to exchange relevant economic data and research, and promote the cause of travel and tourism.

The accord was signed by WTTC President Jean Claude Baumgarten and CHA President Simón Suárez during the 7th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference, held at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel, in Bermuda.

EXCELTUR’s board of directors has voted Simon Pedro Barceló as its new president. The move is the first of a series of overhauling steps within the group’s front office. The process of outing and incoming presidents is compiled in the company’s guidelines and regulations in order to favor transition and foster a nonstop working dynamics.