Gutsy Women Travel is offering a nine-day/eight-night Costa Rican Traditions Tour and a special savings of $200 when clients bring a friend on a double occupancy package. The group will view the Arenal Volcano and observe the tumbling lava rocks and spewing gases and relax at the luxurious Tabacon Resort with its hot springs and tropical gardens.

Ronella Tjin Asjoe-Croes will join the Aruba Tourism Authority as chief executive officer beginning Jan. 1, 2011, according to officials at the Tourism Corporation Bonaire, where Tjin Asjoe-Croes currently serves as director of tourism.

Pearl Seas Cruises, which expected to launch its first ship on a maiden voyage this year, has put off its start-up due to litigation with the shipbuilder, Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) announced today first-ever gastronomy recognition by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for traditional Mexican cuisine.

Frederick Morton Jr. has decided that will be his next project. And it is a “project” to the jovial creative thinker with a strong background in litigation. But that’s how he operates. “Look how I looked at marriage and children,” Morton, 42, said with a laugh, “like a project.” It’s the kind of mindset, he said, that has helped him get as far as preparing the biggest launch of his career in the United States – Tempo, a 24-hour pan-Caribbean television channel.

Amelia Island, located along Northeast Florida’s pristine coastline, is offering visitors several new activities and trip-planning tools. Among the new offerings are a nature-specific website, a mobile website, a new bed and breakfast and a skydiving experience.