Guatemala will be home to this year’s Central America Travel Market, scheduled from October 3 through 5 in the nation’s capital.

The tradeshow’s main goal revolves around the need to put Central America on the world travel map and lure more wholesalers with a view to get them more familiar with the destinations and products the region has to offer.

The Central America Travel Market is a technical and professional event in which tourism offerings from the region’s five countries are showcased in an effort to establish trade ties with wholesalers from the top sending markets.

Mexico City’s World Trade Center will host the 2004 Expo Adventure & Ecotourism (scheduled for June 4 and 5), the only event of its kind in Central America that fosters tourism as a more environment-friendly and nature-loving activity.

Mexico’s countless offers in this field will be presented to attending travel agents, tour operators, representatives of tourism state offices, community tourism authorities and owners of ecological lodgings.

Despite the U.S. government´s fierce opposition and blockade, one of the most relevant sporting events of the Cuban calendar, the Ernest Hemingway International Sports Fishing Tournament, was held this week, with the participation of 17 boats with fishermen from six different countries.

Cuba will unveil eight new top-notch rum brands before the international market within the framework of the island nation´s First Rum Festival that starts Sunday in Havana.

The world-class Mexican travel destination of Cancun is now holding Expo Cancun –scheduled to come to a close Thursday- the most important tourism promotional event in the city.

Sponsored by the Office of Conventions and Visitors, the main goal of the gathering is to beef up Cancun’s position as Mexico’s top travel choice.

As many as 45 tourism companies are attending Expo Cancun 2004 in the city of Guadalajara as part of a nonpermanent exhibition aimed at advertising local products and services as far as the leisure industry is concerned.

The cream of the top as far as Cuban music is concerned will perform this week in Havana during the 2004 CUBADISCO, an event that brings together the island nation’s very best acts and in which all boundaries between refined and pop music are simply knocked down for the sake of top-quality entertainment. As in previous editions, there’ll be 44 prizes in different categories up for grab in this year’s contest.