Havana.- Restoring the hotel infrastructure has remained high on the agenda of the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, Mintur. Come November and the winter season, the island would have added to its room stock several new hotels and some others which have been refurbished.

  New York.- The Loews Regency Hotel, on New York’s Park Avenue, is the talk of the town these days as the newly designed and renovated property is again available for bookings for its re-opening in January 2014.

  The governments of Haiti and Venezuela are planning to partner on a hotel and villa project on the island of Ile a Vache.

Miami, Florida.- The $25.5 million lawsuit filed by the Canadian real state company 360 Vox Corp against the PGA of America in Palm Beach County for allegedly blocking its right to use the brand in Cuba, where they were planning a golf resort, echoed in The Miami Herald as follows:

  Haiti is continuing to look to Latin American countries for help as it seeks to build its tourism sector.

The new Intercontinental franchise is the brainchild of Grupo Poma, which is based in El Salvador. The company is building the hotel through its Real Hotel and Resorts division, which currently operates 19 hotel properties in the Western Hemisphere.