Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela are the first markets chosen by Amadeus for the launching of its new business line that will provide training and professional consulting services.
Amadeus´s new division will make all necessary arrangements to add extra value to its services in order to give GDS customers the possibility of streamlining their own technological and human resources.
Cuba showed off its very best business opportunities during the course of the first Latin America & Caribbean Incentive Market Exchange (LACIME) that unfolded from June 23 through 25 in Brazil.
The tradeshow, organized by Reed Exhibitions together with the Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies (ABAV), provided a perfect setting to showcase all business opportunities that Latin America and the Caribbean have to offer as far as events and incentive travel are concerned.
Jamaica´s economy will leapfrog dramatically following the enhancement of the island nation´s cruise service on the basis of a new agreement signed between Royal Caribbean Cruises and local authorities. The treaty will bring a minimum of 2 million cruise passengers to Jamaica and over $16 million worth of revenues over the next five years.
A similar accord had been inked last February with Carnival Corporation to take some 50,000 travelers to Jamaican shores, the island nation´s Minister of Transportation Robert Pickersgill told Caribbean News Digital.
The Costa Maya Tourist Compound, being built on a 12,200-acre vacant lot bathed by the Mexican Caribbean Sea, will require a $1.5 billion investment package, the state government of Quintana Roo informed today.
State Tourism Secretary Artemio Santos explained the Costa Maya compound, intended for deep-pocket travelers, includes the construction of hotels, marinas and other facilities that will make it the second-biggest resort in Mexico with great chances of becoming the country’s premier home port in only three years.
Barbados´s Tourism Minister Noel Lynch stressed his government´s intention to bail British West Indies Airways (BWIA) out of a longstanding crisis and pay off a debt of undisclosed proportions.
Mr. Lynch, who attended sessions of a blue-ribbon panel under the title "Caribbean Tourism: Beyond Sale of Seashells at the Beach," reminded participants that BWIA -with flights to Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and other short-hop destinations- "must do everything within its power to turn the tables and start getting good results," Mr. Lynch explained.
Gains reaped by Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá in Cuba were up a solid 27 percent in 2003 to tally €203 million more than the year before, Gabriel Garcia, the company´s marketing director on the island, said this week.
During a press conference to open Cuba´s new promotional campaign in Spain -in which the Spanish hotel company is playing a mayor role- Mr. Garcia explained that Sol Meliá is currently running 8,446 rooms and 16,892 beds in a dozen hotels on the island nation, numbers that account for 22 percent of Cuba´s total amount of accommodations.