Barbados visitor totals last year topped 520,000, up 2.2 percent over 2013. Of that number, U.K. visitors came in at 186,858, a jump of 11 percent. U.S. visitors to Barbados numbered 118,659 in 2014, down 2 percent. Additional airlift recently announced by JetBlue could help increase the U.S. numbers.

Pure Hospitality Solutions has joined the National Tourism Center of Costa Rica, giving the Company an immediate opportunity to rapidly deploy, market and expand the reach of Oveedia throughout the country, to ultimately 6,000 properties. CANATUR brings benefits unlike any other organization in the country.

Tight budget constrains have slowed down the tourism industry of Vietnam. The tourism administration feels that more effectiveness is required in promoting tourism.  Vietnam International Travel Mart 2015 addresses the effective ways in promoting tourism.

The campaign will encourage consumers in the UK to make the most of their extended weekend, by entering the first come, first served promotion to book a two or four person bank holiday getaway for just £49 per person.

In a bid to explore new markets, Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry will soon explore the Brazilian shores. The tourism authority is headed to the World Travel Market Latin America looking to bolster numbers of travellers into the emirate from South America.

As interest in travel to Cuba surges, tour operators are adding departures. The groundswell began with President Obama’s Dec. 17 announcement that the U.S. and Cuba planned to renew diplomatic ties and to ease travel restrictions between the two nations.