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.
World Travel Market has teamed up with Travel Channel – the leading dedicated travel and holiday TV channel - to broadcast regular ‘prime time’ evening updates from the leading business event across more than 80 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Travel Channel will be reporting on the latest exhibitor stories, new developments and key issues every evening throughout World Travel Market week (10 – 13 November) from London’s ExCeL.
From June 6 to 9 next year, the Cuban capital will put on its best frills for the first edition of the International Rum Festival. The event will also come as part of the festivities to mark the 485th anniversary of the city’s foundation. The details on the festival were mentioned in the course of a news conference held in Old Havana’s Rum Museum.
The press conference was led by Cuba’s Vice Minister of Food Industry Octavio Rubio Bernal, Conrado Martinez Corona (Chairman of the Cuban Convention Bureau) and Juan Gonzalez Escalona, Vice President of CubaRon.
CTO has announced a new series of Road Shows and Travel Agent Seminars, November 2003. The road shows will visit the following cities: Boston, MA; Long Island, NY; Elizabeth, NJ (Newark area); Philadelphia, PA; Troy, MI (Detroit area); Schaumburg, IL (Chicago area); Minneapolis, MN; and Dallas, TX.
In addition to the seminars, the shows include a Caribbean TravelMart, an exclusive trade show for members to meet 1-on-1 with interested travel agents in a business-oriented, tabletop trade show format.