New York City will welcome from January 9 - 11, 2004, the most exciting adventure travel show in the USA, the Adventures in Travel Expo (ATE), which will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the Big Apple’s premier event venue.
With both domestic and international adventure travel booming in recent years, the show is expected to draw more than 500 exhibitors, thousands of travel industry participants and upwards of 15,000 consumers from the New York metro area and around the country to experience all that is new and exciting in the adventure travel arena.
As many as 200 tourism professionals from North America and the Caribbean huddled this weekend in El Salvador for the 42nd Annual SKAL Congress. The conclave stressed on tourist promotion and advertisement as the only way to make headway in the industry.
Under a motto reading Peace And Friendship In The Heart Of The Americas, the event included business rounds in search of new markets. The host country showcased its own assets of ecological tourism, archeological sites and colonial towns.
Representatives from Latin America, the European Union and the United States are gathering this week in San Jose, Costa Rica for regional consultations on children’s protection against sexual exploitation in the field of tourism.
The primary objective is to look into and propose concrete actions to tackle sexual abuse against children from a regional scope, Costa Rican tourism vice minister Rodrigo Castro said in a news conference.
The future of the tourist industry is the topic that this week brought together travel agents, tour operators and experts from the sector in Panama for the Annual Congress of the Confederation of Latin American Tourist Organizations (COTAL).
The new challenges for travel agencies, the sector’s tribulations, pros and cons of the all-inclusive system stacked up against conventional hotels, and training of the sector’s staff were some of the topics broached in the meeting.
The island of Aruba will be filled with sounds of soul this coming Memorial Day Weekend. For the first time, Aruba will host the annual Savoy Soul Beach Music Festival on May 21st-26th which will blend together musical and comedic performances.
On Friday, May 23rd, Aruba will welcome back popular comedian/actor, Sinbad, to headline the festival’s comedy night. Recent Star Search winner, Horace HB Sanders, a new comedy sensation, will also be performing that night.
Beginning May 15, Spain-based company Occidental Hotels will run Gaviota-owned Miramar Hotel in Havana that up to now was in the hands of Accor, a French chain.
From that date on, Mr. Guillermo Guerra will be at the helm of the lodging facility’s front office.