Peruvian tourism officials are stepping up preparations for the sixth edition of the Latin American Travel Trade Mart, slated to take place in Lima, the South American nation´s capital. The main objective of this event is to promote Peru and Latin America among tourism professionals from both the turf and the entire world.

Tourism authorities in Mexico´s Mayan Riviera are already announcing the Fourth Annual Latin Jazz Music Festival, set to take place from November 22 to 25 in Playa del Carmen. This event is one of many festivals organized by the Mayan Riviera Tourism Promotion Board and will feature top jazz performers Screaming Headless Torsos, Aguamala, Mint Condition, Wet Paint, Kool & The Gang and Tom Coster.

Among the issues under review at the forthcoming Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) in St. Lucia is the call to Caribbean tourism authorities to have the faith to aggressively pursue travelers who place a premium on their spiritual heritage. The region´s destinations have a lot to offer spiritually-minded travelers, said a dozen media, tourism and youth delegates who debated the issue at the earlier CMEx in San Juan this year.

The upcoming session of the Mediterranean Travel Fair 2006 (MTF) is set for a great start. The event, which is the only dedicated travel exhibition for the Eastern Mediterranean, will open in Cairo as scheduled on September 5 through 7. Despite regional tensions in the Middle East, trade pre-registration has exceeded expectations and are currently over a hundred percent up on the same figure for the corresponding period last year. To date, MTF 2006 has attracted 35 new exhibiting companies, with a total exhibition area of 26,899 square feet.

Golf & Luxury Travel Reception, specifically created for luxury tourism suppliers to meet with high-end Russian consumers, and the Moscow Golf & Luxury Travel Receptions are the most exclusive tourism events in Russia. As the tourism exhibitions become larger it has become increasingly more difficult to target the high-end consumer and the Moscow Golf & Luxury Travel Receptions were inaugurated in 2003 to specifically cater for this affluent sector.

The 4th BIOTUR 2006 Meeting on Biodiversity and Tourism, to commemorate the first report on Cuban nature by Christopher Columbus, 514 years ago, will be held from October 26 to 28. The Organizing Committee reported that 30 specialists from national parks in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Cuba, among them ecologists, historians and naturalists, have been interested in participating.