Gorgeous Acapulco will be home to next year’s Mexico Travel Market, a highly specialized business powwow that gathers buyers and providers of tourist services through prearranged contacts and meetings for two and a half days. The 30th edition of the Mexico Travel Market will bring together 450 companies and over a thousand buyers hailing from different countries around the globe.

With a final tally of 27 countries from the Americas, Europe and Asia, the 21st edition of the El Salvador International Fair (FIES is the Spanish acronym) came to a successful close after gathering some 380 companies that showcased their products and embarked on numerous negotiations. Attendants to the fair that ended last Sunday could take part in three business rounds aimed at making promotions and forging trade alliances.

Havana, the Cuban capital, celebrated its 485th anniversary on November 16 with a varied program that included history retelling, social functions, cultural events and recreational activities. A faithful advocate of colonial architecture in both Cuba and Latin America, the city of Havana was founded in 1519 as the village of San Cristobal de La Habana.

The London World Travel Market (WTM 2005) is marking its 25th anniversary with a bang. The event –scheduled from Nov. 8 to 11 in the British capital- has logged a new record of attendants, many of them from the Caribbean region, at the roomy ExCel Fairgrounds. Organizers said the world’s largest fair of the travel and tourism industry has this time around provided 39,000 square yards of exhibition space for over 5,000 companies from some 190 countries.

The Havana International Trade Fair (FIHAV´2004), concluded Sunday with a favorable outcome for the Cuban economy, allowing several transactions estimated at over 193 million dollars. The event´s organizing committee informed that the mentioned figure includes 7 million dollars in exports, through letters of intent that should be signed in the coming few months. Similarly, Cuban companies reached agreements for the export of goods and services valued at over 26 million dollars, complying with the official strategy to diversify exports.

Gorgeous Acapulco will be home to next year’s Mexico Travel Market, a highly specialized business powwow that gather buyers and providers of tourist services through prearranged contacts and meetings for two and a half days. The 30th edition of the Mexico Travel Market will bring together 450 companies and over a thousand buyers hailing from different countries around the globe.