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Montevideo in Uruguay has been selected as the headquarters for the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean, a new initiative by UN Tourism.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has elected Barbados to lead the organization as its new Chairman for the next two years.

The mayor of Paris has announced that a sports venue in Paris will be named after Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after her ex-boyfriend allegedly set her on fire.

By any standard, Glacier National Park in northwest Montana, contains some of the United States’ most breathtaking landscapes.

Khadija and Odari Head, the dynamic siblings behind Head's Plumbing Sales and Service, Inc., have continued the legacy of their family’s business, making it the oldest and most experienced Black-owned plumbing company in the state of Georgia.

In an era characterized by rapid shifts in global travel patterns and unique challenges, the Caribbean region has emerged as a beacon of resilience and growth. 

Skyline Partners, a full-service provider in the parametric insurance supply chain, and global reinsurer Munich Re have revealed that a partial claim under a parametric insurance policy triggered by Hurricane Beryl has been paid out to the Jamaican Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL).

Evelyn Uba is a woman from California who moved from Nigeria in 1983, who has achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a lawyer.

Recently, Luanping County, Chengde City, north China's Hebei Province, has used drones to transport construction materials for the first time during the protection and restoration of the Jinshanling Great Wall, which has improved construction efficiency and reduced the ecological impact on the surrounding environment.

High temperatures and recent heat waves affected some 2.4 billion workers worldwide.

After Narsiso Martinez came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 20, he spent summers picking produce to pay for school. Years later, his portraits of America’s labourers hang in museums and pay tribute to the farmworkers he once worked alongside.

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has released its highly anticipated Construction and Investment Benchmarking Report, offering invaluable insights into the region’s thriving hospitality and tourism sector.

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway has married American self-styled shaman Durek Verrett in a wedding that has divided the country.

Ghana is set to enhance its position as Africa’s leading gold producer with the commissioning of its first large-scale greenfield mine in more than a decade, it's been reported.

Greg and Subrina Collier are a couple from Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States, who transformed a devastating fire that destroyed their first restaurant into a remarkable success story.

Dr. Nigel Clarke, the Minister of Finance of Jamaica and the driver of that country’s multi-layered approach to disaster risk financing that includes the first catastrophe bond for a small-island state has been proposed to become a Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).