Kingston will again demonstrate why it is a popular and ideal location for meetings with the hosting of the first International Community Tourism Retreat, June 20-24, 2008 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.

London’s World Travel Market (WTM) has a new admissions policy designed to benefit both exhibitors and visitors. The new policy includes changes to the structure of the daily format at WTM with Opening Day admission by exhibitor invitation only, ministers, and press.

Las Vegas-based Pink Jeep Tours, which offers off-road excursions in signature pink Jeeps to Red Rock Canyon, the Grand Canyon and other Southwestern locales, will debut its newest vehicle, the Tour Trekker, at TIA International Pow Wow in Las Vegas this week.

The Travel Industry Association’s (TIA) 40th Annual International Pow Wow travel trade show kicked off Saturday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. More than 5,000 delegates from more than 70 countries are participating in networking and business appointments with U.S. travel organizations from May 31 through June 4.

The Network of Entrepreneurs Selling Travel (NEST) will hold its fourth annual conference in Xcaret, Mexico, November 13-16, 2008, at the Occidental Grand Xcaret.

Paragon Business Travel Conference & Expo, a pan-European business travel conference that was held May 15 and 16 in Italy’s Milan, brought together more than 300 business travel professionals, including 100 buyers, who came to Milan from more than 20 countries.