The Combo Express presented by Sol Caribe Tours is a spanking-new tourist product that will hit the market on December 20. The new project will be the one-and-only opportunity to take a direct flight from Cuba all the way to Santa Maria Key and stay overnight at any of the cozy Sol Meliá hotels.
Caribbean News Digital has learned that Miguelina Ortiz de Subervi has just been appointed to take over the post of tourism minister in the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Subervi will replace former minister and current husband Rafael Subervi Bonilla, who will soon be on the stump as a presidential candidate in his country´s elections. The piece of news was broken at the World Travel Market recently held in London.
Gabriel Barceló Oliver, president and CEO of the Barceló Foundation, was anointed on Oct. 31 to the prestigious Hall of Fame, an honorific distinction created by the British Travel Industry back in 1995 to praise those who have played a noteworthy role in the development of the travel, hotel and tourism industries.
Beginning on Oct. 30 through April 2004, there’ll be flights from Miami and Cuba’s Havana landing on Cozumel Island every Thursday and Sunday. The deal was cut by Multidestinos, a travel agency that spent $2 million in an effort to bring in more travelers to this Mexican island that’s seen in many parts of the planet as an exclusive site for scuba divers.
Festival Cruises Co. is paying tribute to the artistic and creative richness of the Centennial European Civilization with the grand opening of the first Sailing Museum. A total of eleven exhibitions from as many renowned fine artists from Italy and the rest of the world will be set up aboard the company’s finest liners –European Vision and European Stars- in a fascinating initiative conducted through the Festival Foundation.
The National Tourism Service of Chile and the Tourist Promotion Corp. are now in for Chinese and German travelers.
Oscar Santelices, chief of Chile’s Tourism Institute, explained that only a thousand German and Chinese trippers combined are coming to the South American nation every year. “Now the goal,” he says, “is to double that amount in just five years.” In Mr. Santelice’s opinion, these tourists are big spenders just like Americans and other Europeans are.