UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, and the French Minister of State in charge of Tourism, Fleur Pellerin, met to discuss the new tourism strategy of France as well as how to further strengthen the collaboration with UNWTO.

The Guatemala Tourist Board has launched a new program to attract more visitors to the Peten region in the north of the country through the development of new facilities and the promotion of tourism products such as the Carmelita-El Mirador circuit or the new Maya Trek.

Grenada’s Tourism Minister Alexandria Otway Noel says despite an inherited depressed economy, her administration has recorded significant growth in the tourism industry in 2014 so far. Otway-Noel was the key note speaker at the opening of the 1st Caribbean Symposium for Innovators in Coastal Tourism on Wednesday.

Resort developers in Qatar are currently in talks with an American company to open an underwater Atlantis-style theme park here, an artificial reef developer has announced. Los Angeles-based Reef Worlds was quoted in local media today as saying they have entered discussions with two developers in Qatar.

Through funding and other developments that enhance the city of Montego Bay, the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) is assisting the city’s civic leadership in achieving a transformation to preserve its character and cultural heritage.