The Baleària Group marks today a new milestone in its achievements with the beginning of the high speed maritime transport service between Fort Lauderdale (north of Miami, USA) and Grand Bahama island. The fast ferry Pinar del Río will operate the new service between Florida and the Bahamas.

With an active cruise year on the horizon for 2012, officials of The Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited (GBPA) are partnering with Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), the Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and the Ministry of Tourism (MOT) to host a “Tourism Opportunity, Awareness and Training Seminar in an effort to better Grand Bahama’s tourism product rankings.

Hedonism II is putting out a siren call for engaged couples who would like to get married in the buff on national TV on Valentine’s Day 2012. The nuptials and interviews with the newlyweds will be featured in a top-rated show on a major documentary network.

Sunwing Travel Group is proud to announce the next phase of its exciting growth strategy, with the 100 percent acquisition of United States based Vacation Express. From their head office in Atlanta, Georgia, Vacation Express, one of the United States’ leading wholesale Tour Operators, has sold vacation packages to American travelers for over 22 years.

Bayahibe in the Dominican Republic, penciled in among the best family-oriented destinations Bayahibe and one of the Caribbean’s most important tourism destinations, was recently included among the ten best family destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico.

The National Institute for Cultural Heritage is offering visitors to Ecuador four different theme tours through the historic cemetery in Guayaquil. The cemetery, known as the Cemeterio General de Guayaquil, was founded in 1823 and is the final resting place of many important figures in Ecuador’s cultural, political, music and art scenes.