The Caribbean was prominently featured at one of the world’s leading travel exhibitions, the International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin 2003 which took place in the German city of Berlin from March 7-11, 2003.
Twenty-eight (28) of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)’s 32 member countries are among the 181 countries and territories participating in the event. As it has done every year since 1980, CTO will coordinate a Caribbean Village at the Berlin Exhibition Ground, site of the tourism trade fair.
Today’s society is well informed and mass media play an increasingly higher role than ever before with a decisive contribution of their own to the understanding that news reporting is a national priority, said Mexican Tourism Secretary Leticia Navarro in the closing ceremony of the First National Forum on Tourism and Mass Media held on Isla Mujeres.
The cream of the crop as far as information technology is concerned is putting on a great show this week at the Pabexpo Fairgrounds in Havana with 35 Cuban companies and other firms hailing from Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, China, Spain, Italy, France and Panama.
The tradeshow spreads knowledge about high-tech breakthroughs and brand-new products hitting the national market, including the latest software, computer items and related products linked to information, telecommunications, automation and the electronic industry.
The Dominican Republic hopes the 14th Pan American Games scheduled for next August in Santo Domingo will benefit the country as a tourist destination and raise the number of travelers coming to this island.
Jose Joaquin Puello, president of the Games Organizing Committee, announced a huge sponsorship program and other earning estimates out of sales of local television rights and venue tickets, a couple of elements that will bring in large lump sums of money for the institution and eventually the Dominican state.
The First Central American Congress of Protected Areas had its opening session Monday in Managua keen to discussing rational exploitation of those zones that take up 18 percent of Nicaragua’s total surface. The first reports to the conclave were presented by Panama, Belize and Mexico. Participants are expected to hammer out a final strategic plan for the region.
Spanish company RIU Hotels attended once again the Berlin Tourist Fair with a stand of its own at Pavilion 1.2 that really packed a wallop in the audience with pictures and images of its newest establishments and destinations.
RIU execs briefed on the company’s program of grand openings scheduled for 2003, as well as a variety of new destinations that will jump on the giant’s bandwagon in the next couple of years.