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.

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.