Creating a colorful spectacle for those on and off the sea, the 39th annual Carriacou Regatta will take place from July 25th -August 2nd, 2004. The festival, which began as a mere boat racing event in 1965, is a salute to the Caribbean sister island of Grenada´s indigenous art of boat building, handed down by Irish and Scottish ancestors.
The Regatta race events, which take place the entire week, focus mainly on the locally built ´workboats´ with some ten different classes of boats ranging from 14 to 35 feet in length.
As a way to promote tourism in Argentina, the city of Buenos Aires is holding this weekend the twelfth edition of the International Wintertime Tourism Exposition at the Exhibition Center of the nation’s capital.
The event is gathering over 150 specialized exhibitors and features countless attractions, prizes and special promotions.
The first and only regional fair specialized in congress and incentive tourism –MITM Latin America- will hold its fifth edition in Cuba’s Varadero from October 28 to 30.
G.S.A.R. Marketing, the event’s organizing firm, picked Cuba as a result of a poll that showed the tremendous interest the island nation draws among incentive and congress buyers from Europe and North America.
The fair’s three previous editions took place in the Mexican cities of Guadalajara, Leon-Guanajuato and Merida, and the latest one was held in Guatemala City.
The recently concluded conclave of the Latin America Tourism Organization (COTAL) –held from May 7 to 11- was used by the Mexican travel destination of Cancun to spearhead the recovery of the South American market to its premises, a segment whose total inflow took a double-digit slide from 12 to 2 percent over the last couple of years, the event’s Organizing Committee pointed out.
Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city, will soon be home to the 2004 International Tourism Fair scheduled from August 5 through 8 at the MAAC-Central Bank in the north side of the local 2000 Seawall.
As many as eighty countries have so far confirmed their professional participation in the event that will gather numerous airlines from the turf and overseas. Those carriers will equally help move attendants to Guayaquil and from there on to the four regions to be visited by experts: the Amazonian, Costa, Galapagos and Sierra.
The possibilities of bigger trade ties between Brazil and Cuba, and chances of enhancing exchanges in the travel industry were touched upon by officials from both countries during the opening of a new bilateral entrepreneurial meeting in Rio de Janeiro.