Tourism Secretary of the Dominican Republic, Felix Jimenez, announced this week the holding of a meeting of peers from Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in a bid to map out a new strategy for the development of travel potentials in the region.
Mr. Jimenez explained the powwow, that will take place from July 8 to 10 in the beautiful zone of Punta Cana, will provide a perfect setting ti share experiences on tourism development in these countries and their perspectives to lure larger troves of visitors.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) has once again palm-picked Puerto Rico´s San Juan as the venue of choice for the 2006 Caribbean Marketplace, the region´s biggest annual travel and tourism trade event, to be held in January next year.
Held every year in January, the Caribbean Marketplace sets the tone for travel packaging in the region and is penciled in by many as the Caribbean´s most significant tourism marketing event of the year.
Travel industry professionals from over two dozen countries of the Americas met for a couple of days to assess the present and the future of the congress and convention market in the region, a segment that churns out some $300 billion worth of profits worldwide every year.
The event unfolded within the framework of the 43rd Meeting of the Regional Commission for the Americas of the World Tourism Organization (WTO). Among the attendants were tourism ministers and senior travel officials from 25 nations of the Western Hemisphere, and WTO Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli.
Top experts in tourism communications and journalists from various countries addressed around 200 participants from 20 countries at the first Regional Conference on Tourism Communications (TOURCOM), organized in Nusa Dua, Bali (Indonesia) on Friday. The Conference marks a turning point for media relations and crisis communications in Asia and the Pacific.
Organized by the World Tourism Organization in cooperation with the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the event has attracted decision makers in international tourism communications from the public, private sectors and a large group of journalists. The official sponsor partner of the event is Visa International - Asia Pacific.
As the old saying goes, "there´s no gain without pain," and Trinidad & Tobago´s fashion designer Claudia Pegus had not only the vision, but also the drive and the desire to conquer new markets, to forge alliances in the highly competitive realm of Latin fashion. And she accepted the invitation to be the honor guest at a splendid fashion runway show entitled Venezuela Designs, recently held in that South American nation.
Mrs. Pegus´ designs and collections have put her on the map, not only in the Caribbean, but also in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. This time around, she presented seven new designs -five of them from her Hemp Resort Collection. The other two outfits belong to her formalwear collection.
Not even her world-known cocktail-party dresses were seen in the runways of Caracas, let alone her fanciest creations and flagship bride gowns.
Port security officials from the Bahamas, the U.S. and the Turks and Caicos Islands were given the opportunity to fine-tune their protection of regional ports on Tuesday, as the second annual International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) symposium opened on Tuesday at the Radisson Cable Beach Resort.
The three-day symposium will focus on ship and port security within The Bahamas and is being sponsored by The Bahamas Port Authority and the United States Navy and Coast Guard Liaison officers of the U.S. Embassy.