To better promote the island as a top business and leisure destination and to educate tour operators from around the globe about what the island can offer, St. Kitts will be hosting a symposium for tour operators from Thursday, May 12 to Sunday, May 15, 2005.
During the four-day event, tour operators will participate in a marketplace for wholesalers, dinner receptions, brainstorming sessions, island news updates, one-on-one meetings with key tourism partners from St. Kitts, presentations from hotels, airlines, wholesalers and destination management companies, and have to opportunity to speak with Richard O. Skerritt, recently appointed as Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Culture.
The 13th edition of the Expocaribe Fair, Cuba´s second-largest trade show, will unfold from June 19 to 24 at its traditional venue: the Heredia Conference Center in Santiago de Cuba.
Meetings between Cuban enterprise representatives and CARICOM member states, aimed at fostering commercial ties among the region´s countries, are regarded as the pinnacle of Expocaribe 2005´s agenda.
The Organizing Committee of the International Ecuadorian Tourism Fair (FITE 2005) has just wrapped up the third preparatory meeting to tie up possible loose ends as far as organization, logistics and attendance are concerned. The fair will take place in Guayaquil from September 22 to 25.
According to a press release sent to Caribbean News Digital´s editorial staff, current preparations are covering all expectations in terms of attendance and potential results. Planners hope to welcome record highs of buyers, professionals, news media, lecturers, folkloric performers, photographers and other participants.
The Yechana Lodge Hotel in the Ecuadorian province of Napo and the country´s Tourism Ministry received top honors in the categories of sustainable tourism and best exposition, respectively, during the recently concluded International Tourism Fair in Berlin.
The ITB jury recognized the Yachana Lodge Hotel -yachana means a place to learn in Quichua language- for fostering interaction between guests and the surrounding environment. The establishment is perched on a mountain community along the Napo River banks and is run by the Comprehensive Education and Development Foundation.
The Florida-Dominican Business Development Group (FDBDG) will hold the First Dominican Fair on Tourism, Investment and Real Estate in an effort to increase business ties and further tourist investments.
FDBDG President Pablo Diaz Ballester informed the event will take place on April 22 and 23 at a hotel in the city of Miami in order to promote tourism, banking, finances and real estate investments toward the Caribbean nation.
Brazil took advantage of this year’s International Tourism Fair in Berlin to promote its new tourist trademark, a motley logo that carries the blue of the sea, the yellow of the sun disc and beaches, the green of the forests and jungles, the white of its religious syncretism, and the red of the popular festivities.
Tourism Minister Walfrido dos Mares Guia, who headed his country’s delegation to ITB 2005 in Germany, told news media there Brazil hopes to snare 5.8 million foreign visitors this year, up 20 percent from 2004. In the case of domestic travelers, that figure could rise to 8 million vacationers in 2005 .