Canada continues to be the primary source of visitors to Cuba, according to a report by the National Statistics and Information Office (ONE), cited by the Cuban business magazine Opciones. Over 181,260 Canadians visited the island up to June, lower than in same period last year.

Tourism to Grenada is surging, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Tourism stopover arrivals to the island increased by 18.6 percent in the first half of 2014, compared to the first six months of 2013, according to the CTO data.

Haiti’s renewed focus on tourism seems to be paying off so far in 2014. After a 2013 that saw a 20.2 percent improvement in arrivals compared to the previous year, Haiti’s numbers continue to grow, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization.

The Dominican Republic’s tourism boom continues. The region’s leading tourism destination received just under 2.7 million tourist stopover arrivals in the first half of 2014, an 8.4 percent improvement over the same period in 2013.

Once we touch down on the Kuala Lumpur airport, I was anxious to steal the first look at the Petronas Towers, yet we still had a one-drive drive to the hotel ahead of us, but finally, after dreaming of this moment for years, they were standing there right before my eyes.

Over the last few years U.S. tourism to Japan has gone from the lowest of the low in the aftermath of the March, 2011 tsunami to where it is now at its highest point ever. In the first six months of 2014, from January through June, 446,000 Americans visited Japan, a record for any other six month period.