The sixth edition of Jardines del Rey Tourism Fair came to a successful close in this destination north of the Ciego de Avila province with the presentation of the Silver Ibis Awards to the most outstanding tour operators, travel agencies and top choices in 2002.
The lion’s share this time around went to Canada-based carrier Air Transat and British tour operator JMC as the two top tourist providers for the ten hotels perched on Coco and Guillermo keys.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is planning a series of festive and exhilarating events to spice up Caribbean Week 2003 in New York City, scheduled for June 1-7, next year, with a scope from an inter-faith ceremony to a “Taste of the Caribbean” market fair, advanced CTO’s office in New York.
The 23rd edition of the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) will unfold Jan. 29 through Feb. 2, 2003 at the Juan Carlos I Fairground in Madrid. The meeting will gather over 9,000 companies from 170 countries comprised in a surface of 140,000 square meters, a 12 percent increase compared to last year’s event.
Negotiations to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, as well such topics as culture and tourism, are some of the issues Central American presidents will discuss Friday in a regional summit to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The Central American Integration System (CAIS) warned this will be the year’s last regional summit that will also broach the topics of childhood and adolescence, as well as food security in Central America.
The Bermudas Islands will host the 7th Annual Conference on Caribbean Hotels and Tourism Investment scheduled for April 1 to 3, 2003 with the attendance of government representatives, members of the tourist industry and investors.
The tripartite meeting in Hamilton, the Bermudas capital, is aimed at ratcheting up investment on the so-called leisure industry and raising operational expectations in the entire region.
Quito, the Ecuadorian capital, will host the First Forum on Ecological Tourism next Dec. 19 to 21. The event’s main objective is to stimulate relations between the environment and tourism within the framework of the public, the private and the academic sectors. Several experts on these matters are expected to attend the forum.