
The Ecuadorean city of Quito is confident that it will reach 740,000 tourists by the year-end, which will represent a 5% increase over the previous year.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the government will be working with a number of public-private partners for the long term expansion, development and diversification of the tourism industry.

A Spanish group has been handpicked to enter the homestretch of an international tender project to build a travel compound in Havana's Marina Hemingway, worth some 400 million euros.
On the occasion of the presentation today of the Airport Carbon Accreditation program at COP21, the European airport industry committed to increase the number of carbon neutral airports to 50 by 2030.
Travel-dependent Caribbean destinations are at the forefront of climate change, underscored by U.S. President Barack Obama’s meeting this week with regional government and tourism officials as part of this week’s COP 21 climate conference in Paris.

Curacao hosted last week the North American Tour Operator Symposium 2015 (NATOS), which counted on the participation of 27 tour operators from the U.S.A. and Canada.