For the first time ever, Mexico will play host to the Your Travel Expo beginning next May 24 that will open up a window of opportunity for the nation’s companies and associations likened to the leisure industry. These firms could display their travel packages and provide consulting services to both tour operators and vacationers.
New York City will welcome from January 9 - 11, 2004, the most exciting adventure travel show in the USA, the Adventures in Travel Expo (ATE), which will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the Big Apple’s premier event venue.
With both domestic and international adventure travel booming in recent years, the show is expected to draw more than 500 exhibitors, thousands of travel industry participants and upwards of 15,000 consumers from the New York metro area and around the country to experience all that is new and exciting in the adventure travel arena.
The sixth annual Grenada Spice Jazz Festival, to be held this year from May 31 to June 8, will be spicing up the Caribbean music scene. Unlike previous years, the 2003 event will focus strictly on local and regional Caribbean talent, rather than international artists from outside of the region.
This new format will also help differentiate the Grenada event from other numerous jazz festivals held throughout the Caribbean. In addition to some of the hottest jazz, the 2003 Grenada Spice Jazz Festival will also present local culinary arts and indigenous arts and crafts.
“We’ll see you again in 2004,” were the words that pulled down the curtain of the 2003 Cuba Tourism Convention held in Varadero, a beach circuit some 96 miles east of Havana where the island nation proved to be a privileged destination in the Caribbean.
Marketing director of Sol Meliá Gabriel Garcia walked in the Plenary Hall of the Plaza America Conference Center yesterday to present the Sol Meliá product. At the onset of his presentation, Mr. Garcia went through all the hits his company has scored since it began operating in Cuba and praised convention planners for drawing a bead on the tourist circuit of Holguin and incentive travel.
Within the framework of the 23rd Tourism Convention, Cuba’s vice minister of Culture Ruben del Valle unveiled Tuesday the island’s cultural product before an audience that included such outstanding Cuban intellectuals as songwriter Chucho Valdes, Miguel Barnet, Jose Loyola –deputy chairman of Cuba’s National Writers and Artists League (UNEAC), Jesus Ortega, founder of the Cuban Guitar School, painters Choco and Manuel, and writer Waldo Leyva, among others.