The Brazilian Travel Agency Association (ABAV) is wrapping up preparations for its 31st Tourism Meeting with Rio de Janeiro serving as its unmoved host town from this year on. Dubbed the Fairs of the Americas, the meeting is scheduled for October 22 to 25 at the Rio Centro Convention Center. The exhibition area will comprise 31,122 square meters this time around for an 87 percent increase compared to the Recife 2002 edition.
Incentive tourism dealing with farming issues will lure some 3,000 visitors this year to Cuba’s central region eager to learn about that particular sector and trade on the chance to enjoy the surrounding natural attractions.
Up to now, more than 300 American, German, Asian and Latin American travelers have come to Villa Clara to visit the province’s cattle farms, urban farming centers, croplands and cigar factories, as well as the Bolivar Conference Center where the working sessions will be held.
Devoted to preserving the environment, Aruba is once again showing its commitment to keep the island beautiful. For the 10th year in a row, its Tourism Authority is proud to host the annual Aruba Reef Care Project (ARCP), which will be held this year on July 5th and 6th. ARCP brings together local dive operators, individual groups, volunteers and visitors to clean up the island´s beaches, dive sites and coral reefs.
The city of Havana will host next May the Second Meeting of Tourism Transportation Entities and Experts summoned by TRANSTUR, Cuba’s largest company dealing with tourist ground transportation.
Scheduled from May 2 to 4, the event will spur debates on more than ten different issues ranging from service quality and management to marketing efforts on automotive, railway, air and sea transportation. Other discussions will broach inter-modal transport and its technological, technical and material backup.
The fifth edition of Cuba’s International Construction Fair –the most important tradeshow for builders on the island nation- is now underway in the Pabexpo Fairgrounds. FECONS 2003 will provide some 280 companies from 23 countries with the opportunity of showing off the latest technological breakthroughs in the building business.
Attendants from Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Austria, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Aruba, China and Cuba will scatter their products and items in an area of 4,000 square meters.
The Caribbean is coming to grips with the realities of the changing preferences of visitors, Jean Holder, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) said at the opening in Bridgetown, Barbados, of a regional training workshop on Managing Sites and Attractions.