Grupo Vidanta, a leading developer of world-class resorts and tourism infrastructure in Mexico and Latin America, has been awarded the AAA Five Diamond Award for its Grand Luxxe resort property in Nuevo Vallarta. The award will be formally installed and announced by AAA in November.

Brand-new traffic signs have improved the road infrastructure in Santiago de Cuba province and, along with urbanity airs of its head cities and the preventive work carried out, have helped reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents.

Tourism, foreign investment and exports promotions agency Proexport Colombia has launched a comprehensive new e-learning program for UK travel agents called Learn Colombia aimed at increasing agents’ knowledge of the country and boosting sales.

UNWTO has opened the call for applications for the 11th edition of the UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism. Interested candidates can apply until the 31 October 2014. The Award Ceremony will be held during the Madrid International Tourism Trade Fair FITUR in Spain on 28 January 2015.

One of the most picture-perfect sites in the country is nestled twenty kilometers away from Santiago de Cuba City. Baconao Park stands out with its Prehistory Valley where over 200 life-sized sculptures of primitive species take us back to the age when dinosaurs roamed the face of the planet.

For the fourth time in a row Lufthansa German Airlines has been voted “Europe’s leading Airline” at the World Travel Awards – an award for the best of Europe’s travel industry following a voting process involving 230,000 travel tourism and hospitality professionals worldwide.