Mountain resort professionals, from the Alps to the Rockies, as well as Asian destinations including the Republic of Korea, will debate how snow and mountain destinations can respond to current and future challenges, while remaining competitive and sustainable, at the 7th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism (Grenoble, France, 28-29 April 2011).

Recovering from an especially cold winter in 1947, a group of locals under the auspices of Dr. W. Houston Moore came together to celebrate the arrival of spring and the blooming of the azaleas at Greenfield Lake and surrounding local gardens. At their second meeting, this group of civic leaders picked the absent and unsuspecting Hugh Morton, a representative of the Wilmington Jaycees, as their President of the 1st Azalea Festival.

The US tourism team launched its annual promotion last weekend at the Bud Light ReggaeFest in Mount Snow, Vermont, targeting avid skiers and snowboarders with a call to action: “Out of the Snow to Melt Down in the Sand.”

For the 36th consecutive year, the Mexican resort city of Acapulco will welcome thousands of executive travelers for the country’s most important annual tourism tradeshow; Tianguis Turistico.

More than 900 cruise industry leaders, tour operators and industry related personnel took part in the 27th annual four-day Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach. A major highlight of the convention was the ‘Jamaican village’, hosted by the Port Authority of Jamaica to promote the newly constructed Falmouth cruise ship pier in Trelawny.

Cuba participated in Le Monde à Paris International Tourism Fair in France (MAP 2011) with its summer promotion and products linked to its cultural and historic riches and heritage. The event, that opened on Thursday at the exhibition park of Porte de Versalles in the French capital, ran thru Sunday and turned out an opportunity to promote the most genuine values of the Caribbean island.