A grand total of fourteen boldface names and institutions with outstanding contributions in the sciences, culture, tourism and international relations, as well as entrepreneurial management linked to Cuba travel, received the 2013 Excelencias Awards. The distinctions will be handed out Friday at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

Excelencias publishing group’s Excelencias Gourmet magazine, with its 35th issue, has become the official magazine of Panama’s Gastronomic Club, the first step to fulfill the recently-inked agreement.

Excelencias publishing group’s Excelencias Gourmet magazine, with its 35th issue, has become the official magazine of Panama’s Gastronomic Club, the first step to fulfill the recently-inked agreement.

Caribbean News Digital English, one of the publication put out by the Excelencias Group, has reached a major milestone with its 1,000th issue as a publication that seeks to keep industry professionals posted on the latest developments on travel and tourism worldwide, especially in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Excelencias Group’s Editor-in-Chief and President Jose Carlos de Santiago has been given in Guayaquil, within the framework of the International Tourism Show in Ecuador, FITE, the First Gold Category Award to an International Publication for an article published on Excelencias Turísticas del Caribe y las Américas magazine on the Galapagos Islands. Excelencias Turísticas magazine is one of Excelencias Group’s products, which also features Viajes por Excelencias, Excelencias del Motor, Excelencias Gourmet and Arte por Excelencias.

The Iberian-American Gastronomy Academy has appointed Jose Carlos de Santiago, president and CEO of the Excelencias Group, as the institution’s ambassador to Hispanic America, a move that would entitle him to act on behalf of this institution in the creation and formalization of the Caribbean Gastronomy & Tourism Academy attached to the both the Iberian-American and the International Gastronomy academies.

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