TUI Travel, the world's biggest tour operator, said summer bookings had risen as rain-soaked northern Europeans sought out the sun and kept tight control on their budgets with package deals. The gloomy weather offset weaker demand for holidays in crisis-hit Greece, chief executive Peter Long said.

To replace Dan Hanrahan, who resigned last month after seven years as president and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, parent company Royal Caribbean promoted executive vice president of operations Michael Bayley. Bayley has been with Royal Caribbean for 30 years.

Two British tourists have been charged with drug possession and trafficking after authorities in Grenada allegedly found 1.3 kilograms of cocaine concealed in their luggage. Police say the tourists were arrested at Maurice Bishop international airport as they attempted to board a Virgin Atlantic flight to London.

Two Carnival Cruise Lines’ ships, Carnival Freedom and Carnival Imagination, have earned perfect scores on their U.S. Public Health (USPH) inspections. They are the seventh and eighth Carnival ships to score 100, joining the Carnival Glory, which earned a 100 on a Health Canada inspection last week.

In recent years, Niagara Falls has thrown open its doors to casino gambling, gay weddings and a tightrope walk that, until laws were relaxed, would have meant arrest. It even briefly considered taking in toxic wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.