This year, InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) has also sponsored La Cumbre fair, held in Las Vegas. Within the framework of this important event, we had the chance to interview Mr. Tony Ruiz, recently appointed sales general director for Latin America and the Caribbean, who talked about the group’s new strategy to boost sales in Latin America, keeping up with their hotel expansion in that region.
A week to go into an undefined strike called by the SEPLA Union for every Monday and Thursday and beginning Sept. 22 –the union represents the Air Europa pilots- Globalia President Juan Jose Hidalgo sat down with Caribbean News Digital for an exclusive interview in which he’s aired his standpoints on this issue and other hot topics related to Spain’s travel and tourism industry.
Among many other services related to communications for tourism, the Travelbiz.ie portal releases a digital newsletter twice a week that reaches 6,000 travel agents in Ireland and North Ireland, as well as tourism offices, airlines and other companies from Europe and the United States. With Mr. Benson, a great connoisseur of the industry and specifically of the Irish tourism sector, we talked about the characteristics and current trends in the market.
Worldwide known as one of the women who has worked the hardest for the development of tourism in the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Thomas operates the golf and MICE segments, among others, and has been ITB Berlin representative for the Caribbean since the 1980s. First madam president of the Dominican Association of Travel Agencies (ADAVIT is the Spanish acronym) in 1982, and first woman to hold the same position at the Latin American Tourism Conference in 1985.
Q & A with Gaston Isoldi, Director General of La Cumbre and Reed Travel Exhibitions Business Development Director
Reed Travel Exhibitions organizes more than 400 fairs every year of more than 50 different sectors in 35 countries. In the travel and tourism industry, it is preparing big events like IFTM Top Resa in Paris, London´s WTM and, the 22nd La Cumbre-The Americas’ Travel Industry Summit scheduled for September 7-9 and again in Las Vegas.
Come visit San Francisco and take an exciting trip aboard one of the Hop-on, Hop-off buses and motor coaches provided by Super Sightseeing Tours, one of the leading Tour companies in San Francisco. Their unique blue buses stand out from an array of mostly-red vehicles that move up and down that beautiful Californian city. Caribbean News Digital sat down with Ray Sargoni, president and owner of Super Sightseeing Tours.