Starwood Hotels has turned up the heat in its corporate espionage case against Hilton, alleging in a new court filing that Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta knew that two Starwood executives he hired were using confidential Starwood information. It also claims that one of the defendants was acting as a corporate spy while he was still at Starwood.

On Dec. 13, Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade awarded the Prince Felipe Business Excellence Awards in the Tourism Excellence category to Sol Meliá. Sol Meliá became the first Spanish company to receive the prize for the second time.

Nicole King has been promoted to director of sales North America, Caricom and Corporate for Elegant Hotels Group, which owns and operates a collection of five hotels on the south and west coasts of Barbados.

Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, has now fully deployed his web check-in service in Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Web check-in is now available for all flights departing from Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw, London Luton and Prague. More airports will be introduced in the upcoming weeks and the service will be fully deployed by 1st April 2010.

Green Globe Certification announced today the launch of Green Globe Mexico to service markets in its home country and Latin American neighbors.

Air travel in Brazil, the largest Latin American aviation market, posted its biggest increase in five years in 2009, reflecting the country’s resilience to the worst downturn in global civil aviation in decades, the government said on Wednesday.