Organizers of Havana’s Latin American Movie Festival are already trumpeting the beginning of the ten-day 26th edition for December 1. The event’s major goal is to play and award films whose artistic values contribute to highlight the cultural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The countdown for the beginning of Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies (ABAV) Fair to be held at the Rio de Janeiro Conference Center next Sept. 20. is on. Organizers told Caribbean News Digital the new edition will open a couple of pavilions to the public and will provide 25 percent for exhibition space in individual stands at the request of attendants.

The Fifth Grand Caribbean Entrepreneurial Forum will get cracking in Santo Domingo on October 24 under the sponsorship of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) and the Dominican Center for Investment Promotion (CEI-RD). The Entrepreneurial Forum is an initiative of the ACS, in coordination with the CEI-RD that seeks to foster commerce in the Grand Caribbean through business contacts and other activities.

Varadero, Cuba’s premier sun-and-sand destination, will be home to the Fifth Meetings and Incentive Travel Market (MITM) from October 27 through 30. The well-known tradeshow is targeting regional travel destinations outfitted with everything it takes for incentive travel end users and convention organizers to plan events there.

The 17th edition of Travel Mart, the tourism tradeshow organized by the Quintana Roo Hotel Association, came to a close Wednesday in Cancun after three days of intense debates and a significant international turnout. Tour operators from the Mexican Caribbean destination and purchasers hailing from the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the rest of the Caribbean, as well as from the Asia-Pacific Rim and Europe, huddled in Cancun to exchange views and experiences in the business.

Guatemala played host this week to the first Central American Travel Market (CATM) that from now onward will take place on a yearly basis in each and every country of the region. Tourism ministers from Belize, Panama and other Central American nations attended the two-day event designed to promote this nation as the region´s number-one travel destination.