Central American presidents will huddle next Dec. 13 in San Jose, Costa Rica, to hold their 22nd Summit Meeting. Tourism and culture are high on the presidents’ agenda, Costa Rican Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Trovar announced.Mr. Trovar said in a meeting with members of the Foreign Press Association (APEX is the acronym in Spanish) the summit will open up an opportunity for statesmen to broach the implementation of a promotional strategy on international tourism toward Central America known as “multi-destinations.”
The promotion of ecological and adventure tourism are high on the list of Cuba’s priorities for the upcoming World Travel Market and the London Seminar on Tourism Development, Cuban Vice Minister of Tourism Eduardo Rodriguez de la Vega said.The Cuban official added his country’s delegation will show the realities of a safe destination for both modalities. Mr. Rodriguez said that Cuba will have its own stand in the World Travel Market fairgrounds and the delegation is expected to present a seminar aimed at showcasing the nation’s enormous potentials, as well as at informing regulations in force on environmental protection. Meetings with major tour operators dealing with the Cuban destination are scheduled.
Havana’s International Fair -Cuba’s major tradeshow penciled in as the most important event of its kind in all Latin America and the Caribbean- got cracking Monday in its 20th edition in the huge fairgrounds of EXPOCUBA, right in the outskirts of the capital, with a record turnout of 1,500 companies hailing from as many as 59 countries.
Cuba’s destinations of Varadero and Jardines del Rey will host the World Convention of TUI, the Germany-based tour operator, scheduled to take place from Nov. 27 to Dec. 18 with the attendance of 600 delegates from roughly a dozen countries under a commercial outlay.
The Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (CLAC), gathering the subcontinent’s public and private aviation authorities, will meet Nov. 4 through 8 in Paraguay with a view to coordinate safety policies and tourism promotion.A press released issued by Paraguay’s National Department of Civil Aviation indicated the 15th ordinary assembly of CLAC –with headquarters in Peru- will convene in Asuncion with the attendance of aviation officials from 21 countries in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Panama and Mexico.
Cuba will be for the first time the venue of the World Convention of the German tour operator TUI in Varadero (western region) and Jardines del Rey (central region), an official from the tourist sector reported.Organized by the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, Cubanacán S.A and the Spanish Group Sol-Meliá, the event, scheduled for November 2-13, will be attended by 600 delegates from different nations and will have a commercial character.