Guatemala to Host Central American Tourism Fair in October

Guatemala will be home to this year’s Central America Travel Market, scheduled from October 3 through 5 in the nation’s capital.

The tradeshow’s main goal revolves around the need to put Central America on the world travel map and lure more wholesalers with a view to get them more familiar with the destinations and products the region has to offer.

The Central America Travel Market is a technical and professional event in which tourism offerings from the region’s five countries are showcased in an effort to establish trade ties with wholesalers from the top sending markets.

This is the first official Central American fair that counts on the support and sponsorship of all national tourism administrations and industry companies represented in the Federation of Tourism Chambers (FEDECATUR) –Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, the host nation of the 2005 edition.

Organizers, who expect an initial turnout of a hundred exhibitors from as many as fifty wholesalers, say the travel market is a joint promotional endeavor amid a process of regional integration that comes as a perfect opportunity to put a wide variety of tourist offers –such as nature, culture, adventure and a highly competitive infrastructure- on the world market.