The Martinique Promotion Bureau brought a little bit of the sights, sounds and flavors of the island to Nikki Beach Midtown in New York this week.  On hand to welcome over 100 travel agents were the Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille and General Director Ivan Sobesky of the Martinique Tourism Authority.

The Great Canadian Travel Company is offering a six-day/five-night expedition into Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. At the latitude of northern Greenland, it is home to polar bears, reindeer and arctic foxes as well as walruses, seals, whales and myriad seabirds. Its scenery includes alpine-like mountains, icebergs and sparkling glaciers.

General Tours World Traveler is offering $300 airfares on a new South America tour for 2011. With never more than 16 guests, guaranteed, this Small Group Journey travels from Easter Island and Santiago through the Chilean Lake District to Buenos Aires and Iguassu Falls. With convenient service now available on LAN from Miami or Los Angeles and throughout South America, this is the first tour to include both Easter Island and Iguassu in a single well-paced itinerary.

Azamara Club Cruises appointed cruise industry veteran William “Bill” Leiber as its chief blogging officer. Leiber will engage and respond to traveler inquiries about Azamara in online forums and discussion boards, and will be the primary contributor to a blog at www.AzamaraClubCruises.com/DestinationImmersion, which will launch at the end of October. The destination immersion microsite also will feature destination videos and photos, travel advice, and news from Azamara Journey and Azamara Quest.

In two separate attacks on Sunday morning three visitors were robbed in their hotel rooms. Bermuda Sun reports that a man brandishing a bladed article and a blunt object demanded money from an elderly couple staying at Grotto Bay Beach Hotel in Hamilton parish.

Royal Caribbean International’s Legend of the Seas assisted a distressed freighter in the Taiwan Straiton Monday. The Legend responded to a distress call from the Xin Li and set a course toward that vessel’s location. The Legend was the first ship to arrive at the distressed freighter, which was sinking.