The UN Convention on Corruption kicked off Monday at the Siglo XXI Conference Center in Merida, Yucatan with a turnout of 1,800 delegates from the five continents.
Organizers have bent over backwards to make all conveniences available to attendants, including all kinds of telecommunication and information electronic relay services. As a matter of fact, planners have ordered a hundred phone lines be installed for the event.
The Havana Latin American Cinema Festival opened Tuesday with a portfolio of 200 films in which over half that figure will vie for the Coral Awards.
For a ten-day stretch, the Cuban capital will celebrate one of the island nation’s top annual cultural activities. This time around, movie theaters in town will show 45 fiction flicks, 24 premieres, 33 documentaries and 33 cartoons that round off 97 unedited screenplays and 48 posters entering the contest.
Over a dozen Cuban travel companies will come to Buenos Aires for the Eighth International Tourism Fair of Latin America (FIT) –considered one of the top tradeshows of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
This time around, Cuba’s Cubanacan (hotels, travels and health tourism), Horizontes, Sol Meliá, Islazul, Cubatur, Occidental Hotels, Sandals, Havanatur, Cubana de Aviacion, the Convention Bureau and the island nation’s Tourism Minister will be there for the main event.
The thrust of the travel industry is high on the working agenda of experts and officials from the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) gathered this week in Panama City on the eve of the Ninth Meeting of the ACS Council of Ministers, an event that will pave the way for the oncoming regional summit in February.
The Chagre Hall in Panama City’s Caesar Park Hotel is hosting the discussions of diplomats in charge of checking up on the ACS’s latest moves before regional Ministers of Foreign Affairs convene on Nov. 27.
The Nicaraguan department of Matagalpa –some 80 miles northwest of Managua- is now offering tourist the Coffee Trail together with a piping-hot cup of the beverage and grand tours around nearby plantations, plus liquors and custards made of ground coffee.
The coming of the First National Coffee Fair on Nov. 29 and 30 –officials are hoping to welcome as many as 60,000 local attendants- brings up additional allure to Matagalpa, a region where travelers can choose from an array of top-notch hotels.
Latin America will take a closer glimpse at Costa Rica’s success in environmental management within the framework of a fair next Dec. 3 to 5, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Local authorities are expecting a turnout of some 200 experts from 20 countries.
“This will help us show some of our top projects, such as the national parks, fees levied on environmental services and the certification of tourist sustainability,” Costa Rican Minister of the Environment Carlos Manuel Rodriguez pointed out.