The island where happiness lives will turn into the island where music lives this Columbus Day weekend on October 2005, as Aruba gears up to host the biggest music names in the world at the Fourth Annual Aruba Music Festival.
Aruba will welcome world-famous rock legends Queen plus Paul Rodgers on October 8, as the island turns into a rock and roll paradise. Aruba is the idyllic backdrop for this musical powerhouse as they take the stage at the Aruba Entertainment Center this year.
The European Tour Operators Association (ETOA) and the Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) are collaborating to discuss how hoteliers and tour operators can work together more effectively in the field of automation and distribution.
The two organizations have agreed to exchange a number of member privileges and to hold a joint seminar on travel distribution next month.
The 47th annual meeting of the Confederation of Latin American Tourism Organizations (COTAL by its Spanish acronym) is to take place in San Juan Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Matias Prisco, the event´s president, announced.
About 400 tourism industry professionals from throughout the hemisphere will attend. "Participants will exhibit their products to the travel industry and also to the public," said Prisco, explaining that admission to the first day of the event will be limited to businesspeople while the second day will be open to the public.
South Pacific countries have again been warned to take precautions against tsunamis happening in the future. Hawaiian newspaper Honolulu Advertiser said all nations in the region had at least some tsunami risk.
The chief scientist and senior manager of the Pacific Disaster Center in Hawaii, Stanley Goosby, said in the newspaper that few Pacific leaders who visited the center were visibly concerned.
EIBTM 2005, scheduled to take place this year in Barcelona from the November 29 to December 1, has set up an Advisory Board and announced logistical and infrastructure improvements to build on the success of the first event last year.
The 12-member Advisory Board, chaired by Paul Kennedy, EIBTM Exhibition Director, was created to include senior personnel from around the world and across various sectors of the industry, such as destinations, associations, hotels, DMC´s, global event agencies and venue consultants.
The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) announced earlier this week that its inaugural Adventure Travel World Summit will be held in Seattle, Washington, from October 16 to 18 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center on Elliot Bay.
Under a slogan reading "Beyond Survival: Co-creating the Future of Adventure Travel" the summit is designed for industry executives to define their individual and collective future by addressing critical industry issues, including trends, research, marketing, partnering, operations, sustainability and funding.