Excelencias Group Tours around Moscow Fairs

For a third year in a row, Spain-based Excelencias Group has attended some of Russia’s major travel and tourism fairs during a weeklong array of events that turned Moscow into the world capital of the leisure industry.

Executives and reporters from the Excelencias Group, led by the company’s president and CEO Jose Carlos de Santiago, kicked off the grand tour in 2010 by attending the Intourmarket International Travel and Tourism Fair (ITM) that stretched out from March 13 to 16 at the celebrated Crocus Expo fairgrounds in the outskirts of Moscow.

The event, organized by the Euroexpo Group and sponsored by the Russian federal government, showed once again the tremendous potentials of local tour operators to talk Russians into choosing domestic vacation offers.

However, booths and representatives from Spain, Greece, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Bulgaria and other nations and regions from Eastern Europe, also showed off their top-notch travel products and services.

On March 16, the Spanish publishing group decided to elbow its way through in the luring and untapped Eastern European market by attending the sixth edition of the MICE International Forum.

As a media partner and guest of MICE Moscow director Mr. Kim Waddoup, the Excelencias delegation held talks and working sessions with major MICE professionals at the T-Center in the Tishinskaya Square, right in the heart of the Russian capital.

During the meeting, Mr. Waddoup thanked Mr. de Santiago for attending and supporting the fair, and praised issue four of the Caribbean & the Americas Tourist Excellences magazine and the third of Excelencias Travel magazine in Russian language –the company’s two letters of credence, along with Russian edition of the Caribbean News Digital online newspaper.

The third stop of the Excelencias Group in the Russian territory was MITT 2010, the number-one travel and tourism tradeshow that ended on March 20 at the Expo Center in Krasnaia Presnia, by the Moscow River.