Some 500 folkloric parades for tourists take place in Bolivia’s La Paz every year. That’s also the name of a luring proposal the South American nation is unveiling this week at the World Travel Market in London.
Teresa Chavez, tourism director of La Paz Mayor’s Office, explained the nation’s capital holds some 500 of these colorful and music-laden folkloric parades every year, including the Carnival, the University Pageant and the Great Power Party.
The London World Travel Market (WTM 2005) is marking its 25th anniversary with a bang. The event that closed on Thursday 11th 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 Third Vallarta Golf Cup will take place from November 12 to 14 at the golf courses of the Mayan Palace and Vista Vallarta resorts in Mexico. The latter –designed by Jack Nicklaus- was home to the World Golf EMC2 Cup on December 2002.
Organizers have invited the top 128 golfers of the world ranking to join the 32 teams that will take part in this prestigious event.
With the coordination of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and prior to the grand opening of London’s World Travel Market –the second largest fair of its kind on the face of the earth- the European Marketing Forum, featuring numerous Caribbean executives and entrepreneurs, will get cracking on November 9.
The event will be attended by regional tourism ministers, commissioners and directors who are supposed to have an overall insight of the European market and discuss such major issues for their industry as long-haul travel on the heels of one of the toughest periods this sector has ever endured, explained Julia Hendry, CTO marketing chief for Europe.
Cuba’s top-quality offers for events and incentive tourism got two enthusiastic thumbs up by Ramon Alvarez, president of the European Sale Agent General Representatives (ESAGR).
Mr. Alvarez attended a meeting on offers and negotiations during the fifth edition of the Latin American Events & Incentive Travel Market that took place at the Plaza America Conference Center in Cuba’s Varadero Beach.
Tourism officials in Central America and UNICEF experts met in El Salvador last week to assess ways of nipping sexual exploitation of children and teenagers right in the bud, especially in the field of tourism.
The event, entitled “Preventing Sexual Exploitation of Boys, Girls and Adolescents and Contributing to Sustainable Tourism in Central America,” was held at a hotel in San Salvador with the sponsorship of the Italian Government’s Cooperation Agency, the Central America Integration System and the Central American Tourism Council.