The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association welcomed Clovis Casemiro to its staff this week as Membership Coordinator-Brazil.

The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority is recently announced that Kim Jack Riley has been named the director of tourism for the U.S. market and will be based in New York City.

The cruise veteran will take the helm as Windstar President on July 19, after previously serving as senior vice president of global marketing and sales at Seabourn.

Adam Stewart, CEO of Sandals Resorts International, will be the keynote speaker for this year’s State of the Tourism Industry Conference in Barbados.

UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has named Fira de Barcelona as winner of its prestigious UFI Education Award.

For a fifth consecutive year, Montreal ranks first in the Americas for international events, according to the International Meetings Statistics Report for the Year 2015 released by the Union of International Association (UIA), representing yet another outstanding performance.