Madrid._ Tourism magazine Hotels notched Spanish chain RIU –featuring 96 resorts in 10 countries for a grand total of 26,000 rooms- among the top-50 enterprises of its kind in the world.

San Jose._ The promotion of the region as only one joint destination will be the new strategy laid out by Central American nations in an effort to lure more European tourists in 2003, the Costa Rican Ministry of Tourism announced.

Cozumel._ Over 300 people, including wives, relatives and cab drivers, marched down the Rafael E. Melgar Avenue to show support for striking members of the “Adolfo Lopez Mateos” Taxi Drivers Trade Union who remain on the picket lines across from the Municipal Palace to protest the granting of 18 concessions to an enterprise.

The cabinet led by Simon Suarez, CHA’s new president, is made up of five vice presidents with full-fledged participation in all decision-making processes and topics in keeping with the expressed desire of their new boss. They are:

With a view to add two cents worth of its own in both tourism and business in Honduras, Sol Air –the country’s first-ever airline- started out with initial daily flights to Miami and stopovers on their way back in San Salvador (El Salvador) and San Pedro de Sula, Honduras’ second-best city some 240 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital.

The 532-room Coral Canoe Beach & Spa Hotel in La Romana, the Dominican Republic, was bestowed with the Green Globe award for its balanced environmental protection, according to the Coral Hotels & Resorts owning enterprise, a company that runs two couples of four-star all-inclusive establishments in Dominican soil.