There have been plenty of explorations of Brazil’s backcountry, but few expeditions have had the impact of one particular trip by Sir Richard Francis Burton.

GOPlaya (www.goplaya.cr), a website that offers information on 206 Costa Rican beaches and allows tourists to create their own route to visit them, won an international award.

Colombia is in the list of the “top ten best Latin American countries,” which ranks each country based on “cultural and patrimonial richness, business environment, tourism, value system, and quality of life.”

Hyatt Centric Guatemala City, the first hotel of this brand in Central America and one that incorporates both offices and a business center, was officially inaugurated in Guatemala.

The eastern province of Pastaza calls on its fellow Ecuadorians, encouraging tourism of the many cultures and landscapes found in the Amazon Rainforest.

On Tuesday morning, during an event at the City Hall, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, commented on the case of the Spanish tourist killed by military police inside the favela of Rocinha, in São Conrado.

Querétaro, Mexico is being promoted as an ideal destination for tourism conventions, exhibitions, and fairs by the Queretana Commission held in Mexico City.

Many claim that now is not the time for Brazil to invest in making Rio de Janeiro a tourist destination, given recent economic and political turbulence, which is causing the city to enter crisis mode.

Farmers discovered the ruins of a possibly Incan Pre-Hispanic citadel in the jungles of the southern region of Cusco in Peru.

The Oktoberfest celebration in Argentina was a favorite among tourists.