Discover Dominica Authority announced that WinAir has resumed their service between major Caribbean hubs and Dominica, making it easier for travelers to visit the destination. The regional airports servicing the flights to Dominica’s Melville Hall Airport (DOM) are St. Lucia’s George F L Charles Airport (SLU) and St. Maarten (SXM).

The InterContinental Tampa has named James Horsman as the new managing director of the 323-room hotel. In this post, Horsman oversees all aspects of the operations of the property, including rooms division, food and beverage and sales and marketing.

On July 1, the airport departure tax in the Bahamas increased to $20 per traveler, up from $15. Likewise, the cruise departure tax will increase from $15 to $20 on Oct. 1. In addition, the hotel room tax jumped from 6 percent to 10 percent on July 1.

Luxury Retreats has released a list of six of the top luxury travel trends for the first half of the year, with some surprising results. To compile the list, the luxury villa specialist looked at its guests’ destination statistics and polled its team of travel specialists on general themes that have reappeared time and time again since January.

At least two more cruise lines suspended shore excursions on St. Thomas that travel through the Coki Point Beach area, where a Carnival Cruise Lines passenger was killed on July 12.

Despite a variety of angry accusations unleashed recently at Royal Resorts Caribbean from Board members, Union workers and others, the company, which manages the Pelican Resort Club, continues to have the financial success of Pelican as its primary objective.