Known worldwide in the travel industry as the major marketplace for transacting inbound U.S. travel business, International Pow Wow generated more than $350 million in tourism business for San Francisco in the short term alone. More than 1,100 international and domestic tour operators from 70 countries “shopped” the largest travel industry trade show in North America inside Moscone Center.

Over the years, UnLimited Resources (UR), an event planning and project management consultancy company, has successfully managed and produced charters to Margarita, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Falls de Iguassu, Paraguay and Argentina, offering all-inclusive packages to various resorts and hotels.

Panama spent the last three days at Expotur 2011 in Costa Rica, which wrapped up last week, promoting its most current initiatives. Perhaps the most unique of all of them is the new “Stop Over” Campaign.

The impact of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan and measures that need to be taken throughout the travel and tourism industry to ensure a speedy recovery will be discussed by industry leaders during the closing session of the 11th Global Travel & Tourism Summit in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 19.

The Caribbean will host a couple of hotel, timeshare, and tourism conferences in the next month. On May 31, the Shared Ownership Investment Conference will be held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Center in Barbados.

Hundreds of professionals from the private and public sectors of the seven countries of Central America—Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama—and Colombia gathered last week in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the first FCCA Central America Cruise Conference.