World Travel Market Latin America, the leading global event for the Latin American travel industry, reveals that interest from European exhibitors started following the decision of the German National Tourist Board to become an official country partner for the event.

Executives from Skal International, the world’s largest professional association of senior travel and tourism executives, recently gathered at Carnival Cruise Lines’ headquarters in Miami to finalize details for the organization’s first-ever World Congress at sea taking place aboard Carnival Glory this fall. More than 1,200 Skal delegates -who hail from all corners of the globe- will convene aboard the 110,000-ton cruise ship during a seven-day cruise that departs New York’s Manhattan Passenger Terminal Sept. 28 and returns Oct. 5, 2013.

These will be among the questions at the 14th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development, which officially begins in Port of Spain, Trinidad on Monday. The event, which is organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization, first launched in 1997. Last year’s event was held in Guyana.

“The cruise industry needs to play its part in fighting visa bureaucracy and deterring more taxation,” according to World Travel & Tourism Council president David Scowsill. Speaking at the Cruise Shipping Miami Conference, Scowsill complimented the cruise sector for making a vital and rapidly growing contribution to the global tourism industry.

Haiti will be the host country for the Caribbean’s regional CARIFESTA cultural festival in 2015, the country’s Ministries of Culture and Tourism said on Tuesday. CARIFESTA, the Caribbean Festival of the Arts, is being hosted in Suriname this year, following a five-year hiatus. Suriname also hosted the event in 2003.

That will be the strong message from world-renowned environmental speakers to more than eight hundred senior private and public executives from the tourism industry at the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit in Abu Dhabi.