Despite global slowdowns in the aviation industry in 2008, Abu Dhabi International Airport continues to buck the trend as traffic figures for October and the first 10 months of the year, just released by Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), show YTD passenger growth continuing to grow strongly at 32.8 per cent.

Cyprus’s plans to lengthen the tourist season have yet to be fulfilled, as the goldilocks month of October (neither too hot nor to cold) saw a fourth consecutive decline in tourist arrivals.

The strengthening dollar, the credit crunch and recession woes have led to a 15 percent fall in UK-USA flight search traffic, reports Skyscanner (http://www.skyscanner.net/), Europe’s leading flight search engine.

The UNWTO is launching its new long-term research program UNWTO Future Vision: Tourism Towards 2030. The study will forecast international tourism growth through the year 2030 and identify key actual and future trends and their impact on tourism development.

Guyana recently participated in the World Travel Market (WTM) travel and trade show held in London where a high level of interest was expressed in Guyana by an increasing number of tour operators and travel writers, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has said in a release.

The Dominican Republic (DR) was named the “Golf Destination of the Year for the Caribbean and Latin America” by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO). The award was presented to Francisco Javier Garcia, the DR Minister of Tourism, at the 2008 International Golf Travel Market’s (IGTM) annual meeting held Nov. 17 to 20 in Marbella, Spain.