Cancun is ready in case the Organizing Committee considers the destination as the future host of Mexico’s largest tradeshow, the Tianguis Turistico. Organizers of the tradeshow have recently decided to move its location from Acapulco. Cancun CVB chief Jesus Almaguer told organizers the best destinations to host Tianguis are Cancun and Riviera Maya.

Guyana will host the 13th annual Caribbean conference on sustainable tourism development next year. Bermuda’s director of tourism William Griffith passed the symbolic sustainable tourism scroll to the deputy director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, Tameca Sukhdeo-Singh, at the closing of STC-12 in Bermuda on April 6th.

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.