The Kenya Tourism Board is expected to release details of its newly appointed minister of tourism in the next few days, following a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in the popular Najib Balala being sacked from his post as minister after a dispute with his ODM party Chairman and prime minister Raila Odinga.

World Travel Awards, “the Oscars of the travel industry”, has unveiled the regional nominees for its 2012 programme Asian & Australasian organisations in contention include Hainan Airlines, Pangu 7 Star Hotel Beijing, Anantara Hotels & Resorts, Tourism Australia and Air New Zealand. All will now go head to head at WTA’s Asia & Australasia Ceremony, which is set to take place in Singapore on 16 October 2012.

World Travel Awards, “the Oscars of the travel industry”, has unveiled the regional nominees for its 2012 programme. Arabian organisations in contention include Etihad Airways, FlyDubai, Qatar Tourism Authority, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers and Rotana Hotels.

It’s a leap year, when, according to tradition, women can get down on bended knee and ask their dithering partner to take their hand in marriage. With February 29th 2012 fast approaching, World Travel Awards has selected the ten most romantic spots on earth for the fairer sex to pop the question.

The Blue Train has scooped the title of World’s Leading Luxury Train for the third consecutive year at a glittering World Travel Awards ceremony held in Doha, Qatar. Now celebrating its 19th anniversary, WTA is regarded as the very highest achievement that a travel product could hope to receive and has been hailed as “the Oscars of the travel industry”.

Wyndham Grand Regency, Doha, has been in the spotlight over the past few months, most recently reopening under the Wyndham Grand flag. Breaking Travel News sits down with Ayman Lotfy, general manager of the iconic property, to find out what is planned for Qatar’s Leading Hotel in 2012.