Princess Hotels & Resorts is currently offering special travel agent only rates at all four of its Punta Cana, Dominican Republic properties. Bavaro Princess – $53 p/p/n based in Double occupancy Hotel Bavaro Princess, situated in the Dominican Republic in an area renowned for its incomparable beauty, the quality of the sand and the clarity …
World Travel Market Africa, the new leading B2B exhibition for Africa’s travel industry, is offering one lucky visitor the chance to win a brand new iPad mini in their online competition. If you register to attend WTM Africa today you will be automatically entered into the raffle. The lucky winner will be drawn at random …
Many agents who specialize in romance travel want to attend the major bridal/wedding industry conferences such as Wedding MBA – but they can’t always spare the time and the expense involved. So, the Destination Wedding & Honeymoon Specialists Association decided to bring the top speakers in the bridal/wedding industry to travel agents, in the form …
Incredible wildlife, legendary routes, ice-filled fjords, culture and history all feature prominently in Quark Expeditions’ Arctic 2015 expedition line-up. The operator, a leader in Polar adventures, will begin its Arctic season May 28, 2015, at the onset of the Arctic summer, on three ice-strengthened small expedition ships in addition to the world’s most powerful nuclear-powered icebreaker. online …
Frontiers North Adventures has announced its collaboration with Polar Bears International to help bring Google’s Street View to Churchill, Manitoba’s wild polar bears. Using Google’s mapping tools, people from around the globe can now explore the habitat of one of the world’s best-known polar bear subpopulations, all captured using a Google Street View Trekker mounted …
Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts announced the launch of Outpost Expeditions, the company’s new adventure travel program. “Outpost Expeditions will offer exclusive opportunities to travel alongside Guy Harvey and his research and film teams as they conduct cutting edge research around the world,” said Outpost co-founder and President, Mark Ellert. “Our Expeditions will allow our customers …
Florida East Coast Industries (“FECI”) announced the addition of Julie Edwards as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of All Aboard Florida, the nation’s first privately-funded and operated passenger rail service. In the role of CMO, Edwards will be responsible for driving the marketing strategy in support of the launch of All Aboard Florida. Edwards’ appointment is …
Mukul Beach, Golf & Spa in Guacalito de la Isla, a $250-million, 1,670-acre private beach community on Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast, is celebrating its first anniversary. The first luxury resort in Nicaragua, Mukul has been lauded in top travel publications around the globe. Mukul was included in Travel + Leisure’s “It List” of best new hotels …
The U.S. has become one of Portugal’s fastest growing inbound tourist markets, with a 16.4 percent increase in overnight stays by American hotel guests last year. The Portuguese Tourism Office is dedicating itself to educating the travel agent community about this emerging destination with a series of road shows entitled ‘Portugal Experience 2014,’ to be …
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) signed a new partnership agreement on March 7, 2014, during Corporate Social Responsibility Day at ITB Berlin, the world’s largest tourism trade fair. At the crux of the agreement are precedent-setting initiatives dedicated to enhancing the understanding of and professionalization of the global …