La Hispanidad Marlin Fishing Tournament will tee off this week in the waters off eastern Havana organized by the Tarara Marina, an establishment run by the Cubanacan Nautica Co.

Nobel Dominguez, a marketing official at the marina, told Caribbean News Digital that a number of anglers from Cuba, Canada, the U.S. and Spain have already signed up for the competition. Planners expect to jot down fishers’ names from England and Italy.

The program consists of four competition days with an in-between day off.

The International Baseball Associated Federation (IBAF) will hold a couple of major congress in Havana prior to the 35th World Baseball Cup scheduled for Oct. 12 to 25 in the Cuban capital.

The first conclave –an extraordinary meeting- will get underway next Oct. 9 and attendants are supposed to discuss possible amendments to the organization’s rules.

The Havana International Fair has been coming around since 1983 under the sponsorship of Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and Havana’s International Conference Center. In each year’s edition, the tradeshow has gone stronger as a major linker in the promotion of exportable products and the strengthening of trade ties and partnerships.

Tu Viaje (Your Travel) Exposition will get underway Saturday with the attendance of both national and international companies –involved in providing tourist services- that will gather at Mexico City’s World Trade Center.

With such attractions as three-century-old locomotives, the International Steam Festival will open Nov. 20 through 30 in Ciego de Avila, organized in a tour format this time around.

The Festival will kick off Nov. 20 in the city of Cardenas, in the province of Matanzas, on its way to Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Ciego de Avila where it will come to a close Nov. 30.

Festival attendants will travel in wagons hauled by old-timed steam trains and will take part in lectures and tours on request. Moreover, they’ll get a chance to watch speed races and crews’ ability contests.

Entrepreneurs from 17 countries gathered in Ecuador’s Quito over the weekend in an effort to advertise the tourist products of their own nations within the framework of an event that scooped up $17 million worth of business deals, organizers indicated.

The 27th Business Meeting planned by the Quito City Hall and Travel-Mart Latin America –a tourist marketplace that deals with travel packages in each and every of the participating countries- was the perfect setting for this kind of promotional endeavor.