The Tourism Department of Trinidad & Tobago has launched a Spanish version of its website (www.visittnt.com), an advertisement tool that puts surfers just a click away from an array of interesting information featuring general hints, maps, event schedules, beverages, typical food, sightseeing spots and other services. The site also includes an “urgent glossary” containing lots of local jargon terms.

French companies headquartered in New York City are paying a high price for the stance their country took toward the war in Iraq. Plenty of New Yorkers and U.S. travelers coming to the Big Apple are giving French businesses a very cold shoulder, over a hundred reps of Manhattan’s tourist and gourmet sector riled.

Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba are furthering official arrangements to have a plane from the British West Indian Co. fly to Havana twice a week, a source close to the negotiations informed.

According to Options, a weekly publication, the steps prior to the agreement were made public in a meeting between Kenneth Valley, Trinidad & Tobago’s minister of commerce and industry, and Cuban foreign trade minister Raul de la Nuez.

Andalusia is taking its own tourism development model to Guatemala by means of a project signed on the dotted line between the Andalusia Corporate Confederation (CEA) and the Guatemala Development Foundation (FUNDESA).

The project dubbed Development and Fostering of Guatemala’s Tourist Micro Companies has the goal of putting together a network of Tourist Entrepreneurial Centers (TEC) to spearhead the development of the tourist sector.

Additional handiness as far as fees over services in both tourist facilities and air terminals are concerned will be in force in some of Cuba’s airports beginning Mayday and dragging on well into 2004.

The whole tourism and travel system operating on the island nation will offer handling and landing conveniences in the international airports of the cities of Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Camaguey, Holguin, Manzanillo and Santiago de Cuba, as well as in Jardines del Rey, a destination where crew members usually stay overnight.

The Villa Group, one of Mexico’s premiere tourist companies, has just won the Annual Gold Prize to the Best Employer for giving its personnel good training opportunities in an effort to jack up overall productivity and create a positive working environment. The award is presented by the Asset Development Association of America.