The Travel Industry Association’s (TIA) 40th Annual International Pow Wow travel trade show kicked off Saturday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. More than 5,000 delegates from more than 70 countries are participating in networking and business appointments with U.S. travel organizations from May 31 through June 4.
The Network of Entrepreneurs Selling Travel (NEST) will hold its fourth annual conference in Xcaret, Mexico, November 13-16, 2008, at the Occidental Grand Xcaret.
Paragon Business Travel Conference & Expo, a pan-European business travel conference that was held May 15 and 16 in Italy’s Milan, brought together more than 300 business travel professionals, including 100 buyers, who came to Milan from more than 20 countries.
IMEX 2008 produced particularly strong results for its sixth exhibition at Messe Frankfurt this year, as evidenced by final figures released by organizers. The total buyer increase was 5.3 percent against the previous year with hosted buyer and trade visitor numbers up to 8,751.
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Harold Lovell will be addressing 120 delegates at the Caribbean Shipping Association’s seventh annual Caribbean Shipping Executives Conference to be held in St. Maarten later this month, from May 19 thru 21.
At first glance, Woody Allen, Aretha Franklin and Leonard Cohen would not seem to have all that much in common, but at least one shared thread easily pulled is that all three are among the performers scheduled to appear at this summer’s annual Montreal Jazz Festival, June 26 to July 6.