Some 300 delegates from almost two dozen nations –including professors, researchers, artists, intellectuals and directors of cultural institutions- attended the Third International Congress on Culture and Development scheduled for this week in Havana.
The scientific agenda embraced ten basic issues put together in discussion forums and other modalities to guarantee in-depth analyses and exchanges on the different matters.
Ecuador’s tourism minister Ivonne Baki said her country will play host to the 2004 Miss Universe beauty contest, a piece of news broken to her by Donald Trump, the pageant’s organizer. Ms. Baki, who headed the Ecuadorian delegation to the event recently held in Panama, made clear her government is to sign a contract with planners, as well as defray $5 million for the organization of the gorgeous gathering.
The 2003 edition of the Caribbean Week could go down in history as one of the most significant events of its kind in recent years since it turned out to be a drive for a change in the CTO’s grassroots. The Meeting of Caribbean Ministers was one of the most saber-rattling gatherings ever held that even coined the expression “the tail cannot rule the head,” referring to the fact that regional Ministers should not serve the organization, but rather be all the way around.
Cuba’s potentials as a destination for scuba diving enthusiasts and its projects to tap into this modality together with other Caribbean nations were displayed at the 2003 Diving Expo, a weeklong event that took place in Varadero with a turnout of divers, tour operators and experts from nearly a dozen countries.
The gathering included theoretical sessions in which outstanding personalities dictated a number of lectures. One of the top attendants was Mauricio Hadler, a scuba diving expert who touched on the development of the diving industry.
Costa Rica’s 19th EXPOTUR tourism fair that recently rolled down the curtain in San Jose, yielded sales way over $100 million and a white-heat promotional effort to portray Central America as a tourist destination.
EXPOTUR chairman Manuel Carranza pointed out those sale outcomes came as a result of a poll taken by a majority of Costa Rican purchasers, plus others from Nicaragua, Panama and other regional countries.
The 18th Inter American Tourism Congress will get cracking from June 18 to 20 under the sponsorship of the Organization of American States (OAS), said Ester Brol, a spokesperson for the Guatemalan Tourism Institute (INGUAT).
Planners expect a huge turnout with delegations headed by hemispheric tourism ministers and OAS representatives to each and every of the region’s 34 nations belonging to that organization. The private sector and European representatives are also supposed to attend the conclave.