The intensive two-year training and development program gives promising young leaders from across the Caribbean, an opportunity to positively impact the growth of the region's tourism product through hands-on training from one of the world's most celebrated resorts.

Miguel Mirones, President of the Institute for Tourism Quality, made the most of the intense sessions in FITUR and met Galician Secretary of Tourism Maria Nava Castro to foster a pilot project for Integrated Quality Travel Destination in the community, with guidelines to be developed throughout 2014.

Caribbean politicians and renewable power experts gathered Tuesday on British billionaire Richard Branson's private isle to discuss ways of transitioning to clean energy in an effort to spur small island nations to slash their dependence on fossil fuels and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

The water around Costa Rica and Nicaragua are extremely valuable for travel and tourism activities such as sport fishing and for those not so legal activities which are huge money makers, shark finning.

Metry Seaga says his company has reaped very positive returns from their recent participation in Caribbean Travel Marketplace (CTM) 2014 and he is now in multi-million dollar negotiations with local and Caribbean hoteliers to supply furniture to their properties.

Somerset PR business ADPR has landed the account to handle UK public relations for the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board. The West Lambrook-based business has been tasked with upping the number of British visitors to the group of 60 islands which are situated in the Caribbean, east of Puerto Rico.