TripAdvisor has today announced it has acquired Vacation Home Rentals, a Massachusetts-based vacation rentals website. VHR runs over 14,000 properties in the world.

Walt Disney Company (DIS) is betting big on its prospects in mainland China, after it announced today that it would spend an additional $800 million to expand capacity and increase the number of attractions at its upcoming Shanghai Disney Resort.

The Public Transport Board has issued new permits for the first time since 2007 to cope with an anticipated surge in demand as cruise passenger volumes are expected to reach record levels over the next two years.

Tourism ministers from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) sub-region met in Dominica last week to discuss a number of tourism related issues now confronting the sector and identified joint solutions to some of these challenges.

Grenada has engaged the state-owned China Harbour Engineering Company to execute the expansion of the Lauriston airport on the island of Carriacou. The project would involve an upgrade and an expansion at Lauriston Airport; CHEC has already mobilized engineers on the ground in Carriacou, the government said.

The owners of online travel agency sunshine.co.uk have acquired a holiday review website for an undisclosed amount in a bid to widen their offering to UK holidaymakers.