Planners are giving the finishing touches to the fifteen edition of the Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX), a fair scheduled to take place from May 2 to 4 this year at the Half Moon Resort in Montego Bay.
JAPEX came into being in 1990 in an effort to provide both wholesale buyers and tour operators with a professional framework for business exchanges and meetings in which they can cut deals with all major suppliers of Jamaica’s travel industry.
With a hands-on exchange of ideas and views on digital journalism in the new millennium, the International Seminar on Travel Press and New Technologies: Trends and Challenges, opened Monday with a turnout of 40 professionals from seven countries.
The Travel Press Circle of Cuba´s League of Journalists (UPEC is the acronym in Spanish), the Jose Marti International Journalism Institute and the Latin American Travel Press Confederation (CLAPTUR) joined hands to sponsor the event that´s scheduled to come to a close Friday.
Cuba´s 2004 International Tourism Convention will take place from May 3 to 6 at the Plaza America Conference Center in Varadero. This time around, though, technology and novelty will come together for the Cuban Fashion & Art Show, a major piece in this year’s convention.
At 10:00pm on May 2, participants gathered at the Bahia Principe Varadero Hotel will be seduced by a barrage of techniques, poetry, painting and fashion.
Cuba´s 2004 International Tourism Convention will take place from May 3 to 6 at the Plaza America Conference Center in Varadero. This time around, though, technology and novelty will come together for the Cuban Fashion & Art Show, a major piece in this year’s convention.
At 10:00pm on May 2, participants gathered at the Bahia Principe Varadero Hotel will be seduced by a barrage of techniques, poetry, painting and fashion.
The Mexican Caribbean was the most talked-about travel destination in Acapulco’s Tourism Marketplace –now ranking as Mexico’s premier travel tradeshow and the seventh largest all over the world- and officials are now hoping to see hotel fares rise as a result of it, said Artemio Santos, tourism secretary in the state of Quintana Roo.
The Partners’ General Ordinary Assembly of the Ecuador Hotel Federation (AHOTEC is the acronym in Spanish) will take place this weekend in Quito’s Sebastian Hotel.
According to the AHOTEC statutes, the Assembly ought to receive the president’s annual report on activities and the economy, as well as to elect the new leadership that will map out the course of the institution for the next couple of years.
In addition, there’ll be an open forum to discuss and assess the most outstanding issues of the country’s travel industry, especially those affecting the hotel sector.