With over 300 participants, the 7TH Annual Carib News Multi-National Business Conference November 7-10 will bring together African-American and Caribbean-American business owners, entrepreneurs, economic strategists, civic leaders in the African-American community, corporate executives, members of the U.S. Congress, Caribbean business owners, Caribbean Ministers of Government and Prime Ministers together to explore business and trade opportunities.Business leaders from diverse fields and disciplines will find a host of excellent networking opportunities. The conference will open up new avenues while extending cultural and heritage ties.
The 25th Annual Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC-25) opened on Monday 28th with a strong plea by Bahamas Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Perry Christie for regional destinations to work as a single body for the improvement and survival of the tourism sector, and to stop seeing each other as “mortal competitors.”
Abraham Maciques, chairman of the Organizing Committee for Havana’s 20th International Fair (FIHAV 2002) augured more than a thousand firms from some 50 countries will showcase their products this time around in a leased exhibiting area of 15,000 square meters.
Annual statistics recently released by the International Congress and Conference Association (ICCA) placed Cuba as the fifth most sought-after destination in the western hemisphere by international organizations and associations to hold their meetings in the year 2001, only second-bested by the United States, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.As a matter of fact, Havana grabbed the fourth spot in the city category , trailing behind Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and the Canadian pair of Montreal and Vancouver.
Delegates at the 12th Congress of the Pan American Hotel, Gourmet and Tourism Conference (CONPEHT) held in Havana, picked Maria de Lourdes Jarrin from Ecuador as its new chairwoman to replace Mexico’s Rafael Gutierrez.The new CONPEHT leadership is made up of co-chairmen Arturo Sierra for Mexico and the U.S., Guatemala’s Zobeida Kliss for Central America; Argentina’s Maria Vandam to represent South America, and Cuba’s Caridad Alcebo for the Caribbean region.
The feature presentation of a film entitled “We The Music,” directed by Cuban moviemaker Rogelio Paris, served for the grand opening of a Movie Club at Havana’s Meliá Cohiba Hotel, with flicks to be shown once a month at this tourist facility of the Cuban capital.A one-of-a-kind club in more than 350 resorts owned by Sol Meliá all around the globe, the Cohiba Movie Club is aiming at becoming a linkage between its guests and Cuba’s filmmaking industry with presentations spanning from the old classics to the latest projects.