Tour operator Delta Vacations is now offering travel packages to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, said a company official. The announcement follows Delta Air Lines’ launch this winter of non-stop air service to St. Croix from Atlanta beginning in December.

The Costa Brava region in north-eastern Catalonia believes The 2014 Open de España legacy is already taking shape. According to a recent report by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, there was a 2.4 percent increase in foreign visitors to Catalonia in June compared with the same month in 2013, which set a new tourism record for the first half of the year, with 7.1 million foreign tourists to the region.

For many Ecuadorian and Chilean tourists, the cities of Tumbes and Tacna (respectively) are the gateways to a number of diverse destinations in the interior of the country. Because of that, Magali Silva, Peru's Minister of Exterior Commerce and Tourism, has announced the implementation of a new campaign that seeks to promote tourism in the border regions near Chile and Ecuador in order to increase the flow of visitors from those areas.

Barbados’ sports tourism niche is reaping success for the island as a destination, and this country’s minister of tourism and international transport, Richard Sealy, is promising more developments in this area.

Caribbean tourism has long relied on three major markets: the US, Canada and the UK. But more and more, it’s hard to ignore the potential of intra-regional tourism — that is, tourists from within the Caribbean region traveling to neighboring countries.

The promotion of St. Kitts and Nevis in France is about to yield tangible results, as indicated by Dr. David Doyle, the Federation’s Honorary Counsel to the European country of France. Dr. Doyle said that one of his priorities is the promotion of tourism for St. Kitts and Nevis.