International Living announces its Live Overseas - Latin America Conference taking place in the Fiesta Americana Hotel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, from April 27 to April 29.
According to Grant Perry, Conference Director for International Living, the conference program is a “72-hour, insider´s tour of Latin America´s best destinations”. Over three power-packed days at International Living´s Live Overseas - Latin America Conference, attendees will pick up great insider intelligence and on-the-ground know-how.
Mexico is gearing up for the 31st annual Travel Tradeshow, scheduled from March 26 to 29 in Acapulco.
A one-stop shopping opportunity for international and local buyers and sellers of tourism, the event is credited with generating as much as 40 percent of Mexico´s annual tourism sales as a result of agreements inked at the trade fair, according to organizers.
More than one hundred high officials and managers from the tourism sector participated in the Knowledge Management for Excellence in Tourism Destination Governance seminar on January 26 during the Madrid-based FITUR. The seminar was organized by the UNWTO Department of Education and Knowledge Management.
The seminar was presided over by UNWTO Secretary General Francesco Frangialli, Ecuadorian Tourism Minister M. Isabel Salvador, Andorran Minister of Tourism and the Environment Antoni Puigdellivol Riberaygua, Mexican Undersecretary for Tourism Planning Oralia Rice, and Argentine Tourism Secretary Carlos Enrique Meyer, among other boldface names.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic are wrapping up preparations to host the Dominican Annual Tourism Exchange (DATE), where international wholesalers, tour operators, incentive group planners, airlines and charter operators will meet with the nation´s leading tourism suppliers in the premier travel trade marketplace in the country.
Starting on April 5 thru 7, the cream of the travel industry crop will be able to set up one-on-one meetings with suppliers of Dominican tourism products and services for the seventh year in a row. Last year, over 79 buyers representing 50 countries met with over 70 suppliers representing nearly 100 properties-this year´s event promises to surpass those numbers.
The Riviera Maya has been selected to host the first ever official PGA TOUR event to be held in Mexico, the Mayakoba Classic, from February 19 to 25, 2007.
The tournament will be contested on the 7,067-yard El Camaleon course at the Mayakoba Resort, the first Greg Norman-designed golf course in Mexico. Managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, the course is a par-72 layout spread across a fascinating mix of scenery that includes jungle, dense mangrove and oceanfront holes bisected by limestone canals. The tournament will offer a purse of $3.5 million.
The leaders of six Caribbean nations have created a free-trade zone styled after the European Union, which they hope will boost commerce and improve the region´s ability to compete with the world.
Business leaders expect the main effect of the Caribbean Single Market to be the free movement of workers and investment, and not necessarily of goods.