Valparaíso, Chile’s main port will be hosting the continental version of the Sea Trade Fair next May 14/15, a major cruise industry event which is celebrated every three years and for the first time in Chile. The previous meetings were held in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires.

The Caribbean Summit of Political and Business Leaders, scheduled from May 17 and 18, 2013, will bring together heads of state and corporate executives to launch Phase II of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative (CCI) to address environmental threats to the Caribbean region.

Caribbean ministers of aviation were due to meet in the Eastern Caribbean Island of St. Vincent this week to discuss the worsening airlift problem in the Caribbean, including the drastic reduction of service by American Eagle commuter airlines to tourism-dependent island nations.

Zimbabwe and Zambia will cohost the 20th session of the general assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) from 24-29 August this year in their tourist resort towns of Victoria Falls and Livingstone. The two countries won the bid to host the general assembly at a WTO meeting held in South Korea.