Southwest Airlines and its wholly owned subsidiary AirTran Airways confirmed Friday the intent to convert AirTran Airways operations at 22 domestic and international airports, including the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, to Southwest operations over time.
U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson today appointed Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Mario González-Lafuente, to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (TTAB) as part of a strategy to promote the United States.
The W Retreat & Spa in Vieques has been named among the world’s top 10 poshest resorts by the World Luxury Association, which ranks the globe’s most lavish brands in diverse areas such as aircraft, yachts, cars, jewelry, watches, fashion, liquor, cosmetics and resorts.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company is ramping up efforts to increase cruise ship visitor traffic to the island this year, predicting that more than 1.2 million cruise ship passengers aboard 493 vessels will dock in Old San Juan in 2012.
The creation of a fourth tourism region to be known as “Porta Antillas” is seemingly gaining ground in the Senate, which on Tuesday discussed a bill setting aside $200,000 to make it a reality.
The Destination Marketing Association International recently renewed the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau’s destination marketing organization (DMO) status, including it in an elite group that has met a set of rigorous quality and service standards.
Nine months after the Puerto Rico Port Authority launched mandatory cargo inspections at the maritime facilities in San Juan, some 43,000 containers have been processed turning up “substantial drug shipments” but no illegal firearms, Gov. Luis Fortuño said Monday during a tour of the facilities.
The most recent edition of the Orbitz Insider Index, published by the popular online travel company, ranked San Juan as the second most-popular international travel destination in 2011, just behind Cancun, Mexico and ahead of London, England.
For the second time in as many months, the government’s 40-year Public-Private Partnership concession of the PR-22/PR5 highways has nabbed an award from a prestigious international group, this time from London’s Project Finance International, a global project finance intelligence source and a unit of Thomson Reuters Professional Publishing.
The massive B767-300 jet carrying about 270 passengers from Frankfurt, Germany landed at the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport mid-afternoon Wednesday, marking the return of Condor Airlines following a significant absence from the local market.
The unnerving traffic snarls that take place on a daily basis at the junction where at least four major roads meet near the San Patricio Plaza mall in Guaynabo could be gone for good due to a $10 million assignment the U.S. Department of Transportation approved for significant infrastructure improvements.
Network Latin America, a leading airline market two-day networking event for industry professionals from across Latin America, the Caribbean and the U.S. mainland, is holding up its three-day convention in Puerto Rico this week. The first-ever event is expected to inject more than $315,000 into the local economy, Economic Development and Commerce Secretary José Pérez-Riera said Wednesday.
Global Hotel Alliance, the world largest alliance of independent hotel brands, is teaming up with Star Alliance to launch the “Global Pursuit” competition, giving participants a chance to win a round-the-world adventure for two – including business class flights and luxury hotel accommodations.
During the first 11 months of the year, the Urban Train has moved a record-breaking 10 million passengers, Transportation Secretary Rubén Hernández-Gregorat said.
Jacksonville, Fl.-based Sea Star Line LLC will have to pay a $14.2 million fine upon reaching a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to settle a charge of violating federal antitrust laws with respect to Puerto Rico trade activity in a case dating to April 2008.
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