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Notable travel and tourism executives, spanning the airline, hotel, cruise and shipping sectors, have been added to the impressive slate of laureates for the 2024 CMEx Leadership Awards and Fundraiser, which will take place on Sunday, December 8, 2024, in Miami. 

Vietnam Airlines has successfully launched an unprecedented series of initiatives to offset CO2 emissions and reduce plastic waste.

In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India's Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and battling the daily challenges of limited water and no private toilet.

Birla Carbon, one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon-based solutions, announced the launch of its first Asia Post Treatment (APT) Plant in India.

Acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Lee Satterfield travelled to Middleburg, Virginia, where she is due to deliver remarks and engage with industry leaders to elevate film as a diplomatic tool and a driver of the creative economy at the Middleburg Film Festival.

India’s Kolkata looks set to discontinue its iconic trams, which have been running since 1873.

Workers at Samsung Electronics' factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have called off a labour strike that went on for more than a month.

Nigerian-born Samson Dauda has clinched the prestigious 2024 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding title, securing the largest prize ever awarded in the sport’s history.

On October 4^th, British-Nepali mountaineer former Gurkha and UKSF, Nimsdai "Nims" Purja, stood on the summit of Shishapangma with legendry Nepali climber Mingma G and his rope fixing team.

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) emphasized the importance of cultural tourism at the 15th World Tourism Event (WTE) in Genoa, in Italy.

The Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) has announced the first round of honourees for the 2024 CMEx Leadership Awards and Fundraiser.

China renewed its commitments to Africa this September at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.

In recognition of her record-breaking career in track and field, a well-known road in Jamaica is set to be renamed, in honour of one of the world’s greatest ever sprinters in the history of the sport.

When NASA’s Europa Clipper sets off to investigate whether an icy Jupiter moon could support life, the spacecraft will carry an American poet’s words and millions of names.

Millions of Floridians were still without electrical power on Friday, more than a day after Hurricane Milton roared across the midsection of the state, touching off tornadoes and leaving at least 16 people dead.