Tunisia‘s leading private airline Nouvelair has appointed Aviareps as its General Sales Agent in Germany and Russia. With immediate effect, the international expert for aviation and tourism representation becomes Nouvelair’s partner for its Non-charter business and takes over all sales and marketing responsibilities. Aviareps’ teams in Frankfurt and Moscow will attend to the recently launched services in both markets from the beginning.

Association of Tour Operators of Russia held a press conference about the results of the year and the prospects for 2012. The year of 2011 will be a record-breaking in the growth of the number of the tourist trips, assure the experts. However, the profitability of the mass outbound destinations fells with the increase of the tourist flow.

Central America will attend FITUR 2012 in order to inaugurate its Year of Sustainable Tourism, an initiative set up by the Heads of State and Government of the countries that make up the Region, namely Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.

Approximately 10.4 million tourists are expected to visit Mexico during the last two weeks of 2011, according to estimates announced recently by Secretary of Tourism Gloria Guevara Manzo. This figure stands for a 4 percent increase over the same time period last year.

Jamaica officially kicked off its winter tourism last week, welcoming the first winter season visitors to the destination.

The Nicaraguan Tourism Board (INTUR) launched a new English-language website offering enhanced tour and travel information. Designed for North American travelers, the revamped site offers detailed data on ecotourism, adventure tourism and cultural attractions in Nicaragua.