Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) will gather in Panama from Nov. 28 to 29 prior to the Fourth Summit of ACS Heads of State and Government scheduled for Feb. 13 to 14 next year in Panama City, an official source revealed.
Panama’s Foreign Affairs Minister Harmodio Arias told the press that his peers of the Caribbean Basin, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia will forward the details of the projected ACS Summit.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), representing 32 member nations in the Dutch, English, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, will host its second annual Worldwide Travel Writer/Photographer Awards programme to recognize and reward excellence in features and photos published or broadcast about the Caribbean region.
The traditional Wemilere African Roots Festival will once again roll up its curtains in Havana from Nov. 22 to 29, this time up devoted to the culture of Cape Verde and featuring artistic performances, creation workshops, video shows, galas and presentations.
Organizers are also including a literary forum and grand tours around the historic village of Guanabacoa, the event’s main host location.
Officials from Aruba’s Tourism Agency (ATA) and the Hotels and Tourism Association of Aruba showed satisfaction with the results of the recently concluded Third Convention of Aruba’s Certified Travel Agents Overseas.
The event opened a magnificent opportunity to check out the island’s assortment of products and to assess ways to keep the flow of incoming foreign travelers up and running. The meeting was attended by travel agents from Europe, Latin America and the United States.
The Third Tourism Festival entitled “Let’s Know Our Own” has just come to a successful close in the Nicaraguan capital under the sponsorship of Association of Tour Operators and a turnout that counted on some of the country’s premiere tourist companies with their offers for the upcoming 2004-2005 season.
Nicaragua –a country known worldwide as the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes- is currently boosting eight tourist trails, such as the Coffee and Volcanoes trails, without neglecting such other choices as sun-and-beach destinations, religious sites and cultural spots.
Tourism management from both local and regional scopes, as well as the role to be played by tourism departments in each and every destination are points of discussion this week during the framework of the 13th Iberian American Tourism Symposium convened by the Havana Tourism Office.
The goal behind this effort is to clinch new useful exchanges for the tourist development of cities, municipalities and local tourism offices.
The symposium is sponsored by the Iberian American Organization of Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Havana’s People’s Power Office.