String of International Contests to Mark the Excelencias Group’s Tenth Anniversary

The Excelencias Group and UNESCO’s Regional Office for Latin American and Caribbean Culture are summoning for a number of international contests to mark the Excelencias Group’s tenth anniversary.

Over the past decade, the Excelencias Group boasts an amazing portfolio of achievements, completed projects and awards in the publishing of printed press and digital products, as well as other services within the framework of communications that have targeted both the general public and travel industry professionals, with the main focus on the Caribbean region. Those publications have broached cultural and tourism-oriented topics, coming out with sections centered on travel, country-by-country guidebooks, music, the fine arts, literature, cuisine, traditions, boldface names, enchanting locations, events and news updates on the entire region.

A far-reaching program to celebrate the group’s tenth birthday will be underway all through 2007 and the first half of 2008. These celebrations will include –in several Caribbean countries and in Spain- press conferences, reports and interviews to high-ranking tourism personalities, businesspeople, hoteliers, tour operators and travel agents. There’ll also be fine art exhibits featuring artworks by outstanding artists who have contributed their pieces to illustrate the pages of our publications, as well as concerts by top performers, and a number of international contests on fine arts (painting, sculpture and pottery), photography, poetry, journalism, graphic design, digital publicity creation, and painting for kids, among many more initiatives that will be informed to the public through different publications and news media organizations in the course of the coming months.

Over thirteen million printed copies, thousands of illustrated pages, several online publications posted on the Internet –clicked on and read by hundreds of thousands of surfers- a PR and promotional agency, a travel agency, tourist representations, graphic arts services in a printing house of its own, plus a solid team of professionals in editing and graphic creation, speak volumes of the Excelencias Group’s strengths.

Its main strength, however, lies in the direct impact exerted by its own database of over 80,000 contacts from as many as 166 countries, labeled in such sectors as hotels, PR agencies, new media organizations, tour operators, cruise lines, airlines, travel agents, car rentals, MICE planners, graphic art institutions, tourism offices and ministries, NGOs, training and educational organizations, reservation and booking agencies, consulting companies and other categories.

At the threshold of this commemorative program, we’re already rolling out the red carpet to those willing to join the celebration in its many forms, especially those eager to sign up for the contests. We want you all to know –our customers, friends and collaborators- that our doors are open to all sponsorship proposals you might see fit to make.

General and specific conditions of entry for all of the abovementioned contests can be read in detail in the portals http://www.caribeinsider.com/ and www.grupoexcelencias.com/contest.

. Our mailing address for contacts is: Marketing and Promotional Division, Excelencias Group, Madrid, Spain 28020 C/Capitan Haya 16. Phone: +34 (91) 556 00 40. Fax: +34 (91) 555 37 64. email: promocion@excelencias.com.