The Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau is helping vacationers celebrate the holidays with a variety of hotel packages. The Maroma Hotel is offering a Suite Dreams package featuring 25 percent off published rates including breakfast buffet and in-room coffee service.

The South American economic miracle is impacting travel. Described as a “tale of two Americas where travel trends are concerned,” the latest ITB World Travel Trends sees the 2011 South American market as buoyant, whereas international arrivals in North America rose only slightly and U.S. travel abroad was weak. South America’s domestic and international travel markets registered high double-digit growth.

Cruise tourism is gaining momentum in the UAE as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah have been adopting drastic steps to attract big players of the industry, experts say.

The Bermuda Department of Tourism is partnering with 31 island restaurants to offer their first-ever Restaurant Week from Jan. 16 to Feb. 6, 2012. Visitors can enjoy local Bermudian cuisine and international dishes via three-course prix fixe dinners in three tiers, depending on the participating restaurant.

The latest figures from HomeAway.co.uk, the UK’s number one holiday rentals website, show Spain was the most popular destination for summer holidays in 2011. In terms of the number of booking enquiries for breaks in Q3 2011, Malaga Province and Majorca claimed first and second place, followed by Ibiza in sixth place.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has issued a Communiqué during the International Climate Change Negotiations in Durban which urges governments to develop climate change policies which ensure that travel and tourism can grow sustainably and continue to provide millions of new jobs across the planet, regardless of whether an agreement is reached in Durban.