Registration is now open for the 16th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC), which is organized by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). CHTIC 2012 will take place April 24-26, 2012 at the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The 23rd Gramado Travel Festival kicked off this Thursday with the delivery of prizes to the Festival’s Friends, awarded by its directors –Eduardo Zorzanello, Marta Rossi and Marcus Vinicius– as the first activity of the event.

The highly-successful UNWTO & World Travel Market (WTM) Ministers’ Summit is to have a sister event in 2012 – the UNWTO and Arabian Travel Market (ATM) Forum which will take place during the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai (30 April – 3 May 2012).

Multi-platinum, 5-time Grammy award-winning singer Celine Dion is set to headline the 16th Annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues "Art of Music" Festival. The event will be held from January 26 – 28, at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium, located just east of the island’s tourist capital, Montego Bay. Dion joins an impressive list of international stars that have graced the Jamaican stage.

The 17th  edition of MITM Americas, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market, is taking place in San Salvador, El Salvador, from November 16 to 18. MITM is sponsored by the El Salvador Tourism Office, CORSATUR.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon recently addressed the Group of Twenty (G20) during a work session in Cannes, France, and invited the global leaders to join him in Los Cabos, Mexico, in June 2012 for the next meeting of the G20 and B20. Los Cabos prepares for more than 7,000 attendees that will arrive in the destination for that event.