World Travel Market has teamed up with Travel Channel – the leading dedicated travel and holiday TV channel - to broadcast regular ‘prime time’ evening updates from the leading business event across more than 80 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Travel Channel will be reporting on the latest exhibitor stories, new developments and key issues every evening throughout World Travel Market week (10 – 13 November) from London’s ExCeL.
From June 6 to 9 next year, the Cuban capital will put on its best frills for the first edition of the International Rum Festival. The event will also come as part of the festivities to mark the 485th anniversary of the city’s foundation. The details on the festival were mentioned in the course of a news conference held in Old Havana’s Rum Museum.
The press conference was led by Cuba’s Vice Minister of Food Industry Octavio Rubio Bernal, Conrado Martinez Corona (Chairman of the Cuban Convention Bureau) and Juan Gonzalez Escalona, Vice President of CubaRon.
CTO has announced a new series of Road Shows and Travel Agent Seminars, November 2003. The road shows will visit the following cities: Boston, MA; Long Island, NY; Elizabeth, NJ (Newark area); Philadelphia, PA; Troy, MI (Detroit area); Schaumburg, IL (Chicago area); Minneapolis, MN; and Dallas, TX.
In addition to the seminars, the shows include a Caribbean TravelMart, an exclusive trade show for members to meet 1-on-1 with interested travel agents in a business-oriented, tabletop trade show format.
The UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean Culture is sponsoring an international seminar this week in Havana to assess the impact of cultural diversity and tourism on society, as well as to help lay out development policies in this respect.
The seminar will be attended by renowned experts from everywhere under the sun who will conduct workshops with a view to hammer out solutions within the framework of Action Plan contained in the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity.
Over 30 Caribbean destinations and nearly a dozen representatives from the private sector will showcase their products, their flashy cultures, arts, cuisine and music at the World Travel Marketplace that will stretch out from Oct. 10 to 13 in London.
The Festival do Turismo de Gramado, scheduled to get started on Nov. 13 through 16, is penciled in as one of the largest Latin American fairs in the business travel industry with an annual growth rate in the double digits.
During the course of the 2002 edition, as many as 1,710 exhibitors from all across the Western Hemisphere showed off their products and services to 10,000 visitors, most of them big-time purchasers from all around Brazil who zero in on deep-pocket people with higher living standards only comparable to those of industrialized nations.