World experts in travel technology and online marketing will gather at the Latin American Sales & Marketing in Travel Conference from November 27 to 29 in Argentina’s Buenos Aires, to debate the best ways to market and sell travel product on the Web.
According to the event’s planners, this gathering stands for an opportunity to meet and learn from the companies that are leading the field in online travel in Latin America.
About 90 incentive and meeting hosted buyers from 18 countries met last week in Ecuador with 88 travel and tourism suppliers from 10 Latin America countries at this year’s Meetings and Incentives Travel Market (MITM) edition.
According to MITM organizer GSAR, a total of 2,340 pre-scheduled meetings were made by the exhibitors with the attending buyers with a sales volume estimated at $11 million in future sales.
China’s largest franchising exhibition came to a close last week at the China World Trade Center in Beijing.
The Ninth Annual Franchising China Conference & Exhibition featured over 300 booths and 120 exhibitors, including Cartridge World, Century 21, Kenny Rogers Roasters, King Koil, Linguaphone, Office 1, Papa John’s Pizza and SUBWAY.
As more and more Americans struggle to catch their breath from longer workweeks and shrinking vacations, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) stressed at the Adventure Travel World Summit in Seattle its endorsement of a minimum paid-leave proposal that would protect vacation time in the U.S.
The ATTA is the first travel organization to officially endorse the paid-leave initiative. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Work to Live, in Santa Monica, California, and the Seattle-based Take Back Your Time organization, which celebrated national Take Back Your Time Day on October 24, would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to grant three weeks of time off for anyone who has worked at a job for a year.
The categories of conferences, event, and incentive tourism are currently developing in Cuba with 300 international events a year, pointed out Sergio Pimentel, an expert on the topic.
Mr. Pimentel, of the Cuban Convention Bureau, explained that from 20,560 foreign participants in these meetings in 2003, last year 35,208 attended, and between January and September this year, 20,552 such visitors participated.
Lebanon is returning to World Travel Market at ExCeL London, slated from November 6 to 9, this year with a stand that will be twice as large as last year’s and with a stronger delegation.
“The strength of the country’s presence at ExCeL London underlines the tourism authority’s determination to win back the confidence of international travelers following the month-long conflict this summer,” said Fiona Jeffery, managing director of World Travel Market.