The classic and luxury oriented Half Moon Resort will be the hosts of the largest and most important trade fair for travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers, this May in Jamaica. Delegates of the Jamaica Tourism Board will have the opportunity of experiencing the first class comforts of five star cuisine, beautifully manicured gardens and walking paths along the ocean, and old world charm and gentility. Half Moon Resort is located in the exclusive Rose Hall area of Montego Bay, and offers world class convention services.
It was announced today that the island nation of Aruba will host a new international film festival (the nation’s first), The Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF), which will take place June 4-10, 2010. Details were unveiled at a press conference today by AIFF Founders and Producers Giuseppe Cioccarelli and Jonathan Vieira, along with the Festival’s Artistic Director Claudio Masenza, at the Radisson Hotel & Resort in Aruba’s Palm Beach.
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA – February 2010 – The Third Annual Tourism Outlook Seminar, held over two days at the Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, began with the theme of thinking out of the box, actually getting rid of the box, in an effort to stimulate creative thinking in an environment for future survival of tourism in the Caribbean.
Virtuoso, the travel agent network, selected Mexico City for its Overseas Symposium April 15 to 18. Matthew Upchurch, Virtuoso CEO, said he received personal invitations from Mexican President Felipe Calderon and city officials who were eager to draw Virtuoso members to the capital.
Tobago, sister island to the home of the world famous cultural explosion, Carnival, and a classic example of old-world Caribbean charm, will be taking the party beneath the sea this year with its first dive festival.
The Competitiveness Institute (TCI) is celebrating the first global thematic conference on Tourism Clusters, to be held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, from April 7 to 10, 2010, hosted by the National Competitiveness Council of the Dominican Republic.