Guadeloupe has extended an invitation to US travelers to discover the diversity of experiences available across the French-Caribbean archipelago with the launch of its new campaign "Guadeloupe Islands, Naturally Active."

Haiti Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin and Dominican Republic Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garica signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday covering tourism cooperation. The agreement covers issues like tourism legislation, planning, regulation, training, tourist security and health.

Preliminary figures indicate that while USA, UK, and Germany maintain their positions as the leading bed-night source markets for European cities, Russia and China exhibit the highest growth rates among the leading source markets in 2013.

Leading luxury travel network, Virtuoso, harnessed the data of its worldwide travel agency members to reveal 2014's top destinations during its annual Symposium taking place in Berlin this week.

Directors and representatives of major Brazilian travel agencies arrived on Thursday in Havana to learn about Cuba as a vacation destination and its main tourism products for Brazilian travelers. The delegation was made up members of the Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies and specialized journalists.

The European region registered 5% more visitors to Curacao in the first quarter of 2014. A total of 49.931 European visitors were registered during this period. Last year in the same period CTB (Curacao Tourist Board) counted 47.697 stay over visitors from the European region.