Just over 48 percent of foreign tourists who visited Cuba in the first quarter of 2012 came from Canada, according to figures released Friday by the National Statistics Office (ONE). The number of international visitors to the Caribbean island between January and March 2012 was 952,777.

The UN's World Trade Organization says one billion people will cross international borders as tourists this year for the first time. The WTO's regional director for the Americas, Carlos Vogeler, predicted Wednesday that the milestone will be reached in the fall.

Boston has just garnered the distinction of being the most expensive destination in the USA when it comes to the cost of lodging. That's the finding of the latest Budget Hotel Report released by CheapHotels.org.

Despite posting its best-ever tourism arrival numbers in 2011, Jamaica experienced a “flat” 2011-12 winter tourist season and expects a difficult summer this year, according to a Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) official quoted in local press reports.

The Dominican Republic recorded an all-time high in visitor growth between January and March of 2012, with 1.7 million tourists, a 9 percent increase compared with the same period in 2011, according to Francisco Javier Garcia, the country’s minister of tourism.