Copamarina Beach Resort getting $1M upgrade
February 6, 2012
The luxe Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa in the southwestern town of Guánica is getting a $1 million upgrade this year that includes a complete makeover of its 106 rooms and the addition of new entertainment options for guests, hotel General Manager Rabín Ortíz told News is my Business.
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LMM airport up for $40M in improvements
January 31, 2012
The government may be scouting for a private company to operate the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, but while that happens it is moving forward with some $40 million in improvement projects that are either near completion or will go up for bids in coming weeks.
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Majority of P.R. visitors would recommend it as tourism destination
January 25, 2012
The preliminary findings of the government’s 2011 Travelers Survey released Tuesday revealed that 88.9 percent of visitors who came to Puerto Rico last year would recommend the island as a tourism destination; the majority of visitors who arrived by air and by sea came to vacation.
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Southwest moving into LMM after phasing out AirTran brand
January 20, 2012
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.
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Tourism chief named to U.S. Travel & Tourism Advisory Board
January 19, 2012
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.
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W Retreat & Spa named among world’s most lavish resorts
January 19, 2012
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.
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Tourism expecting more than 1.2M cruise ship visitors in ’12
January 18, 2012
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.
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Senate proposes $200K budget to create ‘Porta Antillas’
January 11, 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.
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P.R. Convention Bureau DMO status renewed
January 11, 2012
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.
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Mandatory cargo inspections turn up drugs, no guns
January 10, 2012
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.
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SJ ranks 2nd on Orbitz list of top int’l travel destinations
January 9, 2012
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.
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London’s PFI names highway PPP ‘Deal of the Year’
December 27, 2011
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.
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Condor Airlines returns to LMM with 2 direct flights from Germany
December 22, 2011
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.
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Federal DOT grants $10M to re-route busy Guaynabo junction
December 14, 2011
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.
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Airline executives land in SJ for annual convention
December 8, 2011
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.
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