Travel Impressions has joined with Jamaica’s Royal Plantation to offset the cost of airfare to Jamaica by providing monetary credits that cover most, if not all, of the cost of air travel.

FIT wholesaler Travel Bound has announced 18 new packages for independent travel clients in cities throughout Central and Northern Europe.

The Soca Valley is the first Slovenian tourist destination to receive the title ‘European Destination of Excellence’ (EDEN), given to the twenty best tourist destinations in the EU. Slovenia received the award at the 7th European Tourism Forum in Bordeaux, France.

Grenada’s new administration has made significant changes to the island nation’s tourism administrative team and has reappointed William Joseph to the post of director of tourism. Mr. Joseph had left the post three years.

A marketing representative for the Bahamas Tourist Board in the United Kingdom will spend the next 15 months in jail, after defrauding the board of some £26,450 ($45,825).

The U.S. financial crisis has reached the coasts of the Caribbean –paralyzing work on a 125-room hotel, marina and condominium project on secluded West Caicos island. Logwood Hotel Development Company is the owner of the unfinished Ritz Carlton Molasses Reef hotel and condominiums in the Turks and Caicos.