Tourism, foreign investment and exports promotions agency Proexport Colombia has launched a comprehensive new e-learning program for UK travel agents called Learn Colombia aimed at increasing agents’ knowledge of the country and boosting sales.

UNWTO has opened the call for applications for the 11th edition of the UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism. Interested candidates can apply until the 31 October 2014. The Award Ceremony will be held during the Madrid International Tourism Trade Fair FITUR in Spain on 28 January 2015.

One of the most picture-perfect sites in the country is nestled twenty kilometers away from Santiago de Cuba City. Baconao Park stands out with its Prehistory Valley where over 200 life-sized sculptures of primitive species take us back to the age when dinosaurs roamed the face of the planet.

For the fourth time in a row Lufthansa German Airlines has been voted “Europe’s leading Airline” at the World Travel Awards – an award for the best of Europe’s travel industry following a voting process involving 230,000 travel tourism and hospitality professionals worldwide.

The Centers for Disease Control has issued what it calls an “Ebola Guidance for Airlines,” instructing carriers on what to do to help combat the deadly West African virus from spreading.

Timber production in Santiago de Cuba has been boosted over the past months because of the action of two cutting-edge mobile sawmills located in Gran Piedra Hill, one of the sites with the largest reservoir of logging trees in the province.