A year from now, in January 2009, St. Lucia will host one of the Caribbean’s biggest tourism conventions, Caribbean Marketplace, presented by the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA).
The General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) -held every other year- kicked off last week in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia at a time when the world travel industry is down to the yearend wire with a record high 900 million tourist arrivals around the globe.
Tourism interests in the Southern and Eastern Caribbean will have an opportunity next week to get involved in the formulation of the final draft of a sustainable tourism policy for the region.
National Tourism Week 2007 will be celebrated under the theme “Creating a World Class Visitor Experience.”
El Salvador’s Minister of Tourism Ruben Rochi announced that the country will host the 8th Meeting of Tourism Ministers, Secretaries, and Commissioners, for the 18th Iberian-American Summit of Heads of State, which will be held next year in El Salvador.
Anticipation is growing for the 28th BIT show -the International Tourism Exchange- which will take place at Fieramilano Exhibition Center - Rho from February 21 to 24, 2008.