Cuba's tourism industry currently offers 68,000 hotel rooms, and the plan calls for raising that figure to 103,000. Another 21,000 rooms are available at private homes that take in tourists.

The Cayman Islands is seeing significant growth in tourist arrivals from Canada, with visitation up 6.37 percent in 2017.

Despite political unrest in Catalonia, the Spanish government announced it has broken international tourism records for the fifth straight year in 2017.

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board president, Ernest Wooden, have announced the city welcomed 48.3 million visitors in 2017

A series of shootouts near Acapulco left 11 local people dead Monday, though none occurred in tourist-heavy areas.

U.S. tourism to Cuba grew nearly threefold in 2017 over the previous year, mainly due to relaxation of travel ban, a Cuban official said Saturday.