The Ministry of Tourism has embarked upon a new worldwide campaign to promote Antigua & Barbuda via the web and has chosen to form a partnership with global travel site Tripadvisor. This follows the continuing trend towards an aggressive online marketing strategy, to increase awareness and arrivals to the destination.

Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, has revealed that the number of hotel properties available in its Travelport Rooms and More hotel booking engine has more than tripled since launching the tool last summer.

comScore, Inc. released a study of U.S. smartphone travel behaviors based on data from its comScore Mobile Metrix 2.0 service. The study found that nearly 40 million consumers accessed travel sites or apps from their smartphone in July 2012, reaching 37 percent of the smartphone population.