Uruguay’s top four soccer players in the European League signed up a governmental effort to urge vacationers in the Old World to travel to their hometown provinces. Pablo Montero, Gonzalo de los Santos, Ivan Alonso y Diego Forlan were appointed “honorary tourist representatives” in their own locations.
The appointments are part of an effort aimed at egging European tourists to travel to Uruguay by tapping into the image of local soccer players playing overseas.
With a turnout of major tour operators, travel agencies and top execs from Cuba’s Civil Aviation Corporation, Aerocaribbean Airlines unveiled its digital portal (www.aero-caribbean.com) with a view to fly high on e-commerce and open an online outlet for the sale of plane tickets to and from anywhere under the sun. The new website will be fully uploaded beginning in the second half of January.
The year 2004 will be ruled under the sign of Ogunda Meji, the one that spawns aggressive actions, the science of war, tragedy and bleedings caused by knives. That was the reading of the 2004 Letter of the Year disclosed by the Cuban Council of IFA Higher Priest huddled last week in Havana.
The witness sign will the one of Baba Ejiobe, the one that begets separation, breakups, and divisions among people. The entire twelve-month period will be ruled by Ochun, the deity of love, femaleness and rivers, hand in hand with Obbatala, a symbol of purity and authority.
Howard Chin Lee and Warren Solomon, Trinidad & Tobago’s new Tourism Minister and Tourism Vice President, respectively
Authorities in Trinidad & Tobago appointed Howard Chin Lee new Minister of Tourism, while Warren Solomon will take over as new Vice President of the industry.
SATA International’s new office, recently opened in Spain’s Madrid, announced the beginning in June 2004 of the first and probably only nonstop MAD-PDL-MAD flight.
The route will be covered by either an A-320 or B737-400 aircraft with weekly flights in both commercial and executive classes.
The eastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo will beef up security at the Cancun International Airport after the U.S. government shifted the alert of terrorist attacks to code orange.
Jose Luis Soladana Ortiz, commander of the local General Civil Aviation Directorate, said security measures will be strengthened regardless of the fact that the Phase Two Alert –activated since after the 9/11 terrorist acts in NYC and Washington- remains on.