Exciting and unmatched new events, along with refreshed and improved familiar ones, are part of an enlivening program of activities unveiled by the Caribbean’s tourism development agency for one of the most culturally explosive weeks in New York City.

The ‘Global Village’ will host international hotel chains, technology companies and wholesalers who are heading to São Paulo this April for the inaugural World Travel Market Latin America, with many exhibiting at a Brazilian travel trade show for the first time.

A month after the crippled Carnival Triumph cruise ship spent days without power in the Gulf of Mexico due to an engine fire, cruise leaders and experts began meeting Monday in Miami for an annual conference.