Cuba’s tour operator Havanatur and Palmares Co. inked an agreement for the marketing of Palmares-owned facilities stationed overseas.
Havanatur’s president Berto Perez explained the contract would not only permit to enhance the mesh of services, but also to give the Cuban destination’s choices a much wider media hype.
The first presentation of the 23rd Tourism Convention now underway in Varadero’s Plaza America Conference Center dealt with Holguin, a region teeming with highlands, fertile plains and beaches of powder-thin sand, the same place that inspired Genoa-born Admiral Christopher Columbus to dub it the most beautiful land human eyes had ever beheld.
Around 73 percent of hotel rooms in this tourist destination are pigeonholed in the four-star and five-star categories. As a whole, the circuit is growing at a 19 percent average annual rate.
Conrado Martinez Corona, chairman of Cuba’s Convention Bureau, talked to Caribbean News on the presentation of the Cuban destination for incentive travel and events at a time when the island nation advocates for a healthy, peaceful and safe tourism.
“For the first time, the primary sense of a tourism convention will revolve on the issue of incentive travel, congress and conventions. This is something that no doubt embraces great significance for the Convention Bureau that turned twenty years old just a few days ago.”
Cuba showed satisfaction over the good faring of its high-peak tourist season that brought in some 770,000 visitors to the island nation’s beaches, urban hotels and nature destinations regardless of an unfavorable and a tight-rope international situation. Cuba’s tourism vice minister Marta Maiz Gomez said “this has been a good season” with 19 percent more arrivals than in 2002 and 2 percent more than in 2001, by far the best year up to now.
The Trade and Investment Convention, known by the acronym PROCOMER, will take place in Trinidad & Tobago in late May with a much-anticipated turnout from the Caribbean and Latin America. Some early confirmations are St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
The Costa Rican delegation has forwarded plans to set up an exhibit of numerous items including specimens, foodstuffs, beverages and pet food in an effort to expand its commerce.
Costa Rica will serve as meeting ground for international experts from a dozen countries that will huddle June 2 through 6 to sketch out a document containing designing and working guidelines for professionals buildings and facilities used in meetings, events and huge events.
This meeting is penciled in as a must-have gathering for experts and corporate people keen to having a piece of the luring congress and event market.