Bay Gardens Resorts, located in Saint Lucia’s entertainment and recreation center, Rodney Bay Village, unveiled its new Bay Gardens Resorts Bonus Awards Program. Offering its most loyal customers the best deals, Bay Gardens Resorts will provide guests with savings and special deals with this new program, which includes perks such as complimentary room upgrades, priority check-ins, discounted car rental rates, complimentary airport transfers and more.

With the gradual resolution to a number of logistical issues, the date for the launch of the Caribbean’s new inter-island ferry service will soon be announced.

Southwest Airlines said that it flew 5 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in February 2010, a 2.3 percent decrease from the 5.1 billion RPMs flown in February 2009. Available seat miles (ASMs) decreased 8.7 percent to 6.8 billion from the February 2009 level of 7.4 billion.

Pleasant Holidays is paying 15 percent commission on all new Mexico bookings made through March 31 through Pleasant Holidays or online at PleasantAgent.com. Pleasant Holidays is also offering three additional incentives to agents to book Mexico in March.

The Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau (MCCVB) has appointed John Reyes as president and CEO, effective April 5. Mr. Reyes will be responsible for a staff of 26, reporting to a 25-member board of directors, an executive committee, nine jurisdictions and six sub-committees, with a $4.7 million annual budget.

Air Canada is resuming scheduled service to Santiago, Chile, following the re-opening of Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport (SCL) to commercial operations.