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Grenada touts yachting prowess

Grenada touts yachting prowess

 PRESS RELEASE FROM GRENADA BOARD OF TOURISM:  GRENADA GRENADINES YACHTING: WE ARE SAILING **New Branding Reflects Grenada’s Key Sailing Attributes** St. George’s, Grenada – January 4, 2013 – With a location adjoining the Caribbean’s favorite sailing grounds, a wealth of inlets and bays for sheltered anchorages, a full range of marine services and yachting resources [...]

Grenada ‘golden’ in 2012-13

Grenada ‘golden’ in 2012-13

PRESS RELEASE FROM GRENADA BOARD OF TOURISM: GRENADA GETS MULTIPLE ‘GOLDS’ IN 2012 **Listing Among “Best of the World to Visit in 2013” Tops Banner Year** St. George’s, Grenada – December 11, 2012 – Grenada is truly experiencing a banner year for marketplace recognition, adding top awards for its tourism product to Kirani James’ Olympic [...]

Aruba all-inclusive entices families

Aruba all-inclusive entices families

PRESS RELEASE FROM DIVI & TAMARIJN ARUBA: FAMILIES WILL ENJOY FUN, SUN & SAVINGS IN 2013 WITH THE DIVI & TAMARIJN ARUBA ALL INCLUSIVE’S FAMILY PACKAGE Kids Can Stay, Play and Eat Free at Two Beachfront Properties Year-Round ORANJESTAD, ARUBA – (December 18, 2012) – No matter their ages, the Divi & Tamarijn Aruba All [...]

St. Kitts hosts tourism conference

St. Kitts hosts tourism conference

NEWS RELEASE FROM ST. KITTS TOURISM AUTHORITY: St. Kitts Lauded for Hosting Successful Caribbean Tourism Organization Event Visiting Media, Dignitaries and Guests from Around the World Give Positive Feedback from their Gathering on St. Kitts Basseterre, St. Kitts (October 19, 2012) – St. Kitts has received numerous compliments as the host destination for last week’s [...]

Bonaire to honor U.S. vets

Bonaire to honor U.S. vets

NEWS RELEASE FROM TOURISM CORP. BONAIRE Kralendijk, Bonaire – (July 25, 2012) –Tourism Corporation Bonaire and the entire island will welcome a group of “Wounded Warriors” next month. The group will be scuba diving for rehabilitation and recreation from August 18-25, 2012. This is the seventh year that Bonaire, one of the top scuba diving [...]

Anguilla launches online booking

Anguilla launches online booking

NEWS RELEASE Anguilla Hotel & Tourism Association Launches BookAnguilla.com Powered by Regatta Travel Solutions (via PR Newswire) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Anguilla’s Hotel & Tourism Association signed an agreement with Regatta Travel Solutions to launch www.BookAnguilla.com, a new website which will allow consumers to book hotels and villas in Anguilla.  The project is [...]

Park Hyatt heading for St. Kitts

Park Hyatt heading for St. Kitts

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE ST. KITTS TOURISM AUTHORITY Basseterre, St. Kitts (July 12, 2012) – At a well-attended media event on July 10th at The Park Hyatt in Dubai, Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas of St. Kitts & Nevis proudly announced the launch of plans to develop a luxurious Park Hyatt hotel on St. Kitts. [...]

Honeymoon couple falls for St. Kitts

Honeymoon couple falls for St. Kitts

NEWS RELEASE FROM ST. KITTS TOURISM AUTHORITY Basseterre, St. Kitts (July 3, 2012) –St. Kitts is being praised as an ideal place to honeymoon by the couple who married in a public ceremony at the Caribbean Fair at Grand Central Station on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, as part of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s annual Caribbean [...]

RAILWAY & TRAINS

Gettin’ some gemutlichkeit: Day 2

Recently, treKKen’ headed overseas to southwestern Germany for a 10-day, culinary- and culture-themed trek from Mainz to Lake Constance, with stops in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Hohenzollern Castle and other towns, cities, vineyards and sightseeing spots well-known, and less so, across the Black Forest, the Schwabische Alb (Swabian Alps) and the states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg. [...]