Cuba has traveled to Germany’s Stuttgart armed with its finest vacation offers for the opening of the CMT Fair, an event gathering over 1,400 exhibitors from 82 countries.
The Caravan Motor Touristik (CMT) –coming to close today- is Europe’s largest tradeshow specialized in outdoor tourism. In it, visitors could get hipped on the latest trends, destinations, tour operators, adventure travel, bicycle tours, golf vacations, relaxation opportunities and whole lot more linked to this modality.
France’s Tourism Minister Leon Bertrand and a bunch of CEOs of major travel companies are attending the 45th Congress on French Travel Agencies that got underway Tuesday in Mexico’s Merida.
Within the framework of the event, Mr. Bertrand will meet with Mexican counterpart Rodolfo Elizondo and other French travel professionals, sources close to the organizing committee revealed.
Air France president Jean-Cyril Spinetta, FRAM president Georges Colson and AVIS Car Rental Agency CEO Christian du Tillet are some of the boldface names attending the conclave.
With a view to strengthen ties between culture and tourism, as well as to expand exchanges for better and wider offers, the first inter-enterprise workshop on culture and tourism took place at the Havana Libre Tryp Hotel in the Cuban capital.
In her opening remarks, Cuba’s Tourism Vice Minister Marta Maiz said tourist management should zero in on the promotion of national roots by rescuing heritage values and Cuban culture’s most ingrained traditions.
The eighth edition of the Holguin Tradeshow opened Monday with the intention of showcasing the tremendous commercial potentials in terms of services and products that this province in eastern Cuba has to offer. The tradeshow comes as a perfect opportunity to amp up cooperation and replace hard-currency imports for the island nation.
The Hotels and Restaurants Association of the Dominican Republic announced preparations are underway to hold the Dominican Annual Trade Exchange (DATE) from April 28 to 30 this year at the Playa Dorada Tourist Resort in Puerto Plata.
According to association chairman Johnny Bernal, “this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for international tour operators to cut good business deals, taking account of the fact that most hotel chains stationed in the country will be present at the event, let alone a majority of agencies specialized in receptive tourism.
Wrapping up the Caribbean Marketplace –formerly known as the CHA Marketplace- with flying colors in Puerto Rico’s San Juan, the Caribbean Hotels Association (CHA) is now locking on the 2004 World Tourism Fair scheduled for later this month in Spain’s Madrid.