The fifth edition of Cuba’s International Construction Fair –the most important tradeshow for builders on the island nation- is now underway in the Pabexpo Fairgrounds. FECONS 2003 will provide some 280 companies from 23 countries with the opportunity of showing off the latest technological breakthroughs in the building business.
Attendants from Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Austria, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Aruba, China and Cuba will scatter their products and items in an area of 4,000 square meters.
The city of Havana will host next May the Second Meeting of Tourism Transportation Entities and Experts summoned by TRANSTUR, Cuba’s largest company dealing with tourist ground transportation.
Scheduled from May 2 to 4, the event will spur debates on more than ten different issues ranging from service quality and management to marketing efforts on automotive, railway, air and sea transportation. Other discussions will broach inter-modal transport and its technological, technical and material backup.
The Caribbean is coming to grips with the realities of the changing preferences of visitors, Jean Holder, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) said at the opening in Bridgetown, Barbados, of a regional training workshop on Managing Sites and Attractions.
The MITM Latin America Meetings and Incentive Trade Market (MITM) took place for a third time in a row in Mexico (March 13 to 15 in Merida, Yucatan) despite the fact that the U.S. war against Iraq is making a tremendous dent in the leisure industry worldwide. More than a hundred purchasers from almost two dozen countries gathered for MITM 2003 lured by the incentive and congress market.
Just a general reminder: in two weeks (April 1-3) the hotel and tourism investment community will be gathering in beautiful Bermuda for the 7th annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC).
Marketing companies from two dozen countries opened the Eighth International Fair of Food, Containers, Packing and Graphic Arts (ALIMEXPO) this week in Havana.
Cuba is giving great media hype to this event closely linked to the leisure industry in an effort to offer an assorted menu in which good taste and the preference of visitors coming from everywhere around the globe are the name of the game.