For a fifth year in a row, Interval International –the leading company in vacation exchange- was the main official sponsor of the 2003 Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference (CHIC) of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) that came to end Wednesday at the Barceló Bavaro Conference Center in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic.
Puerto Rican authorities expect some 2.8 million tourists to visit the island’s eleven beaches and different vacation centers.
Ramon Luis Nieves, CEO of the National Park Co., indicated the quality of beaches is good, even though he laid bare the Arroyo and Añasco foreshores are currently under an all-out refurbishment process.
The Puerto Rican government is bent on developing trade and tourism in the west side of the island in an effort to goad European tourists traveling to the Dominican Republic into charting Puerto Rico in their vacations’ road maps.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce the appointment of Roger Soane as general manager, The Fairmont Royal Pavilion and The Fairmont Glitter Bay. Soane, formerly the general manager of Calgary’s Fairmont Palliser Hotel, has complete responsibility for the day to day operations of both properties.
Following the Caribbean ministers’ decision to throw their support behind the economic sustainability of the Life Needs The Caribbean regional marketing campaign, the American Association of Travel Agents (ASTA) –one of the mightiest travel authorities in the U.S.- has lined up its support, too.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) appealed to mom-and-pop hotels and other tourism-oriented properties in St. Kitts & Nevis to join the environmental management program in order to score big savings
Jeannelle Blanchard, regional ccordinator of the Caribbean Hotel Environmental Management Initiative (CHEMI), is in charge of publicizing the program’s benefits that brief hotels, inns, villas and apartments on how to save water, power and other materials that eventually lead to less operational costs.