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From June 6 to 9 next year, the Cuban capital will put on its best frills for the first edition of the International Rum Festival. The event will also come as part of the festivities to mark the 485th anniversary of the city’s foundation. The details on the festival were mentioned in the course of a news conference held in Old Havana’s Rum Museum.
The press conference was led by Cuba’s Vice Minister of Food Industry Octavio Rubio Bernal, Conrado Martinez Corona (Chairman of the Cuban Convention Bureau) and Juan Gonzalez Escalona, Vice President of CubaRon.
The Festival do Turismo de Gramado, scheduled to get started on Nov. 13 through 16, is penciled in as one of the largest Latin American fairs in the business travel industry with an annual growth rate in the double digits.
During the course of the 2002 edition, as many as 1,710 exhibitors from all across the Western Hemisphere showed off their products and services to 10,000 visitors, most of them big-time purchasers from all around Brazil who zero in on deep-pocket people with higher living standards only comparable to those of industrialized nations.
Venezuela will play home to the Second Ecological Tourism Expo scheduled for Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. The event, backed up by the World Tourism Organization, will take place at the Intercontinental Guyana Hotel in the state of Bolivar.
Exhibition space will be divided in three main areas embracing Coasts and Islands, Jungles and Plains, and Mountains.
The Third International Congress on the Spanish Language will take place in the Argentina city of Rosario on Nov. 2004 under a slogan reading Linguistic Identity and Globalization.
The list of would-be personalities attending the event includes Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, Argentina’s Hector Tizon and Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, let alone a good deal of philologists, mass media organizations and scholars.
The New York Times is launching its first trade and consumer travel event, called The New York Times Travel Show, to be held February 27 - 29, 2004 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
To kick-off the weekend, a panel discussion with travel industry leaders, called The Global Tourism Summit, is scheduled for the morning of Friday, February 27, 2004.