The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved construction of a new American Express Centurion Lounge at Miami International Airport, which will provide a unique travel experience for American Express Card Members moving through the airport.

The Argentina-based Decolar.com travel agency has agreed to pay a $2.8 million fine for transactions that allegedly violated the US economic, commercial and financial embargo of Cuba.

Bermuda police coordinated searches for the 67-year-old tourist and retired lawyer and grandfather of four in the west, east and central areas of the island. He went for a walk Friday May 2 near Cambridge Beaches Resort and has not been seen since.

A freighter, which ran aground off the island of San Cristobal, is carrying 16,000 gallons (more than 60,000 liters) of fuel oil ran aground in the Galapagos Islands. For right now it does not pose a threat to the Pacific archipelago's unique environment.

The Costa Rica Tourism Board, Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT), and recently elected government officials in Costa Rica have announced the appointment of prominent tourism industry businessman Wilhelm von Breymann as its new Minister of Tourism.

Doctorate in Tourism Vicente Neto assumed the Presidency of the Brazilian Tourism Board (Embratur). Vicente Neto, 48, has a degree in Law and a post-graduate degree in management. He worked for the Federal University of Bahia in 1985 and began to act as special advisor to the President of EMBRATUR in 2013.