Cancun will be home to the Latin American Hospitality Summit Restaurants & Hotels from February 28 to March 2, an event in which boldface names of the travel industry from Latin America and the Caribbean will speak out about the sector´s future and challenges on the road ahead.
The hospitality industry in Mexico and the rest of Latin America is putting up with a period of dog-eat-dog competition and sea changes that bound hotel and restaurant execs to overhaul concepts and strategies in order to cash in on new opportunities and steer their future projects to safe port.
Cuba´s potentials as a world-class travel destination will be flaunted in the framework of the 25th International Tourism Fair from May 10 to 13 this year in Havana.
Under a slogan reading Cuba: A Driving Destination, the event is already getting media hype on www.cubatravel.cu, the official website of the island nation´s travel industry. This time around, the majestic fortress of Morro-Cabaña in Havana will be home to the tradeshow.
Organizers of the Berlin International Travel Market (ITB) are hoping to welcome over 10,000 exhibitors from 180 countries to the German capital.
Despite the absence of some of the local travel heavyweights, like Thomas Cook and Rewe, the level of application is similar to last year´s for a fair that´s scheduled to unfold from March 11 to 15.
Cuba´s Chamber of Commerce (CCC) summoned domestic and foreign companies stationed in eastern Cuba to attend the 13th edition of EXPOCARIBE, the biggest business marketplace in the Caribbean.
EXPOCARIBE 2005 will take place from June 19 to 24 at the Heredia Convention Center in Santiago de Cuba, its traditional host city since 1992.
The first tourist caravan to build on the travel allures of the Caribbean-bathed state of Quintana Roo among local trippers, will hit the road on February 20 with the enlisted participation of tourism trusteeships from Cancun, Cozumel, the Mayan Riviera and Mujeres Islands.
This kind of promotional road show was drummed up in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. as Mexican tourism authorities realized the domestic market can be the industry´s lifeline when the flow of incoming foreign travelers hits bedrock bottom, as it eventually happened in 2001.
The pressures threatening today´s tourism as a the main engine that drives poor economies were discussed by experts from different countries in the Golden Beach vs. Globalization Forum held recently in the Dominican Republic.
Chile´s former President Eduardo Frei delivered a lecture in which he blasted terrorism and international security problems as the main roadblocks to the advance of the world travel industry.