An American woman died aboard a cruise ship that docked at Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, the same ship on which 86 passengers previously fell ill, according to the state-run Brazilian news agency, Agencia Brasil.

Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line have suspended all parasailing excursions throughout the Caribbean after a Celebrity passenger died in an accident on Nov. 15 in St. Thomas.

Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE), an organizer of events in the global travel and tourism industry, said it would launch World Travel Market Latin America. The first World Travel Market (WTM) Latin America will take place in São Paulo in April 2013. RTE is working with the Brazilian tourist board, EMBRATUR, to develop a hosted buyers program for WTM Latin America.

A call for the media in St. Kitts and Nevis and the Caribbean to help in tourism awareness and refrain from hearsay, opinion and innuendo has come from St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Tourism and International Transport and Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Sen. Richard Skerritt.

Punta Cana International Airport, the leading destination for travel in the Dominican Republic, will be inaugurating a new runway and Air Traffic Control tower with a ceremony on November 25.

Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have infested a Brazilian river beach popular with tourists, biting at least 15 unwary swimmers. One of the bathers lost the tip of their toe during a frenzied attack.