Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo agreed Friday with Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Najafi to maintain closer bilateral contacts through visits to one another’s countries. During their meeting in Madrid, they discussed a common bilateral agenda, as well as some international and regional matters, Spain’s foreign ministry said in a communique.

Minister Walter Mzembi, the Zimbabwe Minister responsible for Tourism, and Minister Alain St. Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture, met with Carol Hay of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) in Madrid yesterday. The meeting took place at the Seychelles stand at FITUR, the tourism trade fair of Spain.

On January 22 a group of Azerbaijanis tried to disturb the activity of the shared booth of Armenia and Artsakh at the Fitur annual international tourism trade fair  in Madrid, Spain. The provocation was accompanied by racist calls.

At the FITUR tourism trade fair in Madrid, Gabriel Escarrer, Vice Chairman and CEO of Meliá Hotels International, presented this morning the most ambitious and global growth plan in the history of the company - Melia.com.

The new year for the Seychelles marketing team will start with an appearance at FITUR which opens in Madrid on January 22nd and runs until 26th. None other than Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St. Ange, will lead the Seychelles’ delegation to Madrid where he will be met by Bernadette Willemin, Seychelles Tourism Board’s Director for Europe.

Kuwait's pavilion witnessed a great success for the third day in a row at the International Tourism Trade Fair (Fitur 2014) in Madrid, Spain, with the participation of 165 countries from all around the world.