Colombian authorities expressed to World Tourism Organization’s Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli, during his recent visit to Bogota, the South American country’s intention to organize the next General Assembly of the WTO, scheduled for 2007.
Colombia’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Jorge Humberto Botero, voiced that view at the end of a meeting between Mr. Frangialli and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, in which the two parts inked an agreement aimed at strengthening the promotion and advance of Colombia’s travel industry.
A group of experts from Latin America will huddle within the framework of the upcoming International Travel Fair in Berlin to hold a forum on the actions that must be implemented to beef up tourist security in that region.
The forum entitled Healthy Growth For Latin America: Peoples, Cultures and Nature Adventure (Ambition, Reality and Future), will unfold during the Market, Trend and Innovation Congress that will take place during the Berlin event from March 11 to 15.
The Travel Professionals of Color (TPOC) in the U.S. will hold on April 27 through May 1 what it calls a one of a kind multi-cultural travel conference at the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado, primarily focused on how to reach four markets: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics.
Suppliers and Vendors interested in reaching minority travel agents and their clients have been invited to purchase a booth at this trade show that will gather over 200 agents.
Mexico will knock together a magnificent 10,548-square-foot pavilion –the biggest among all Latin American countries- for the World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, Mexican Tourism Minister Rodolfo Elizondo revealed this week.
Interweaving Diversities is the moniker of the Mexican Pavilion that will put the Aztec nation’s natural assets, millenary culture and possibilities in terms of projects and investments before the eyes of the whole wide world.
The upcoming 9th edition of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC 2005) reaches a new milestone with the addition of a business component, a PROFIT Partnership Meeting sponsored by Pro€Invest, a program of the Group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) States and the European Commission.
Sponsored by the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), in conjunction with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), and Burba Hotel Network (BHN), the event will be held May 9-11, 2005, at the Sherbourne Conference Center in Barbados.
Cuba is revving up to get the fifth edition of the International Tourism Fair on the road from May 10 to 13 and has announced that China and France will be this year´s nations of honor.
The event, that gathers tour operators and industry professionals from everywhere under the sun, will this time around take place in Havana and will zero in on the travel destinations of Santiago de Cuba and the island nation´s capital.