The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is pleased to announce the launch of GBTA Brazil, which will expand the focus of business travel management through conferences and educational offerings in Brazil.

Demand for travel to Cuba continues to far outpace supply as operators continue to try to find ways to meet demand. Dan Sullivan, president and CEO of Collette Vacations, will travel to Cuba on Jan. 18 and attempt to arrange more spaces for the company’s new tours to Cuba, which was recently put on the market and sold out within weeks. Collette introduced its first tour of Cuba on Dec. 5, and the tour sold out in four days.

Over three million tourists arrived this year to Chile, an 11 percent increase over 2010. The number also represents a trebling of foreign tourists in the last two decades, according to Tourism Under Secretary Jacqueline Plass.

Women-only travel is a growing trend within the travel industry, announces Gateway Destinations, with more and more destinations and types of travel being offered in the U.S. and worldwide – from short girlfriend getaways to extended journeys, and luxury to high adventure tours.

With offices in Lima, Buenos Aires, Washington, Stuttgart, and Rio de Janeiro, www.SouthAmerica.travel and its parent company, 4starSouthAmerica, cater to the vast array of travel excursions in South America.

China will start work on the world's highest airport next year, in Tibet's Nagqu town, state media said on Tuesday.