The UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean Culture is sponsoring an international seminar this week in Havana to assess the impact of cultural diversity and tourism on society, as well as to help lay out development policies in this respect.
The seminar will be attended by renowned experts from everywhere under the sun who will conduct workshops with a view to hammer out solutions within the framework of Action Plan contained in the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity.
Over 30 Caribbean destinations and nearly a dozen representatives from the private sector will showcase their products, their flashy cultures, arts, cuisine and music at the World Travel Marketplace that will stretch out from Oct. 10 to 13 in London.
The Festival do Turismo de Gramado, scheduled to get started on Nov. 13 through 16, is penciled in as one of the largest Latin American fairs in the business travel industry with an annual growth rate in the double digits.
During the course of the 2002 edition, as many as 1,710 exhibitors from all across the Western Hemisphere showed off their products and services to 10,000 visitors, most of them big-time purchasers from all around Brazil who zero in on deep-pocket people with higher living standards only comparable to those of industrialized nations.
Venezuela will play home to the Second Ecological Tourism Expo scheduled for Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. The event, backed up by the World Tourism Organization, will take place at the Intercontinental Guyana Hotel in the state of Bolivar.
Exhibition space will be divided in three main areas embracing Coasts and Islands, Jungles and Plains, and Mountains.
The Third International Congress on the Spanish Language will take place in the Argentina city of Rosario on Nov. 2004 under a slogan reading Linguistic Identity and Globalization.
The list of would-be personalities attending the event includes Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, Argentina’s Hector Tizon and Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, let alone a good deal of philologists, mass media organizations and scholars.
The New York Times is launching its first trade and consumer travel event, called The New York Times Travel Show, to be held February 27 - 29, 2004 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
To kick-off the weekend, a panel discussion with travel industry leaders, called The Global Tourism Summit, is scheduled for the morning of Friday, February 27, 2004.