Receipts from international visitors spending on accommodation, food and drink, entertainment, shopping and other services and goods reached an estimated $1.245 billion (euro 937 billion) in 2014, an increase of 3.7 percent in real terms (taking into account exchange rate fluctuations and inflation).

China has decided to create a ‘blacklist’ for tourist behaving badly overseas. The country’s National Tourism Administration (NTA) will maintain a database on travellers who commit offense, with their names passed onto police, customs officials and even banks.

If ticket sales are any indication, the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro, are already shaping up as successful from a sporting perspective. One week after they went on sale, Brazilian fans have applied for 1.2 million tickets to game events.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including opportunities, and Meet Puerto Rico’s (MPR) weeklong sales mission to Houston and Dallas fit right in. Meet Puerto Rico impacted the area with big Puerto Rico Convention branding and came away with big results.

Visit Orlando, the destination's official tourism association, announced that Orlando had over 62 million visitors in 2014. The announcement sets a new all-time record for the United States travel industry, consolidating Orlando's position as the destination that is most visited in the country.

The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) is seeking to increase tourism to the island by hosting a series of promotional activities in Trinidad and Tobago. The scheduled activities include two travel agent expos, a consumer show and a news conference which was held in Port of Spain.