ARC’s sales numbers for December 2009 were the strongest end-of-the-year numbers since 2005. Total airline sales reported and settled by ARC for December 2009 were more than $4.4 billion, the strongest final month of the year since 2005. Total transactions, too, were comparatively strong, eclipsed only by December 2006.

Radisson Hotels & Resorts named Arianne Valentino-Welch director of sales and marketing for the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino & Spa. In her new role, Valentino-Welch will lead all sales, marketing and public relations efforts for the flagship resort property.

Aeroflot plans to open its new terminal at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport in February.

Radisson Blu has announced the opening of its newest hotel right in the heart of Madrid.

Chukka Caribbean Adventures’ Jamaica Dogsled Experience was voted the “Best Caribbean Shore Excursion” in Porthole Cruise Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief Awards.

A new beach is born at The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun. The Caribbean oceanfront resort has recently added to its world-class facilities a 300-feet-deep beach as part of Cancun’s $71 million beach recovery project, which required extracting and pumping more than 5.2 million cubic meters of sand using 2,137 tons of equipment, equivalent to 4,470 linear meters of pipe use on land, floating and submerged for the restoration of the sand.