St. Regis Hotels & Resorts recently celebrated the groundbreaking of The St. Regis Resort and Residences Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico by planting a colorful pink tabebuia tree on the site of the new luxury development.

Daily roundtrip ferry service resumed between Antigua and Montserrat on December 11, after a three-year hiatus.

The largest hotel and covered amusement spa complex in Central and Eastern Europe, the Ramada Resort Budapest and Aquaworld Budapest, opened at the beginning of December. The site is located in Budapest’s 4th district, on the Pest side of the new Megyeri Bridge.

Delta Air Lines will cut its systemwide capacity by 6 percent to 8 percent in 2009 because of weaker travel demand, the world’s largest carrier said on Tuesday. The company, which this year merged with Northwest Airlines, said its domestic capacity would be down 8 percent to 10 percent next year, and international capacity would fall 3 percent to 5 percent.

The Spirit of Big Five Foundation, the 501(c3) nonprofit organization founded by Big Five Tours and Expeditions, has joined other international groups, including Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund in helping Friends of Nature (FoN) in Belize with funding support to protect the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere.

Priceline.com Inc. has appointed its former chief financial officer Robert J. Mylod Jr. as vice chairman and head of worldwide strategy and planning. Mr. Mylod joined priceline.com in 1999 and was appointed CFO in November 2000.