Curazao’s tourism minister Dennis E. Evertsz talked exclusively with Caribbean News Digital about the necessary reshuffling of the CTO in line with the organization’s basic principles. In the same breath, he referred to the top markets his ministry is intended to develop in the near future.
During the 2003 Caribbean Week in NYC, we had the opportunity of interviewing Aruba’s tourism and transportation minister Edison Briesen following a meeting of the Caribbean ministers and CTO’s member states. The bottom line of the powwow is the ministers should lead the organization rather than having the organization leading them.
Miguel A. Figueras talked to Caribbean News Digital about the overall features of scuba diving in Cuba, a country that has turned out to be one of the Caribbean’s most sought-after destinations for this modality. He also touched on the 2003 Diving Expo –an event that’s coming to a close today in Varadero and where attendants from all over the world have exchanged views on the matter.
In an exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, Dr. Obel Garcia Baez touched on the main features of the “Camilo Cienfuegos” International Retinitis Pigmentosa Center, the positive impact of the therapy patients have been treated with there, and the latest breakthroughs this Cuban medical institution has made.
Mr. Whitelaw talked about the main responsibilities he’s had as chairman of the Puerto Vallarta Hotelier Association whose projects are basically aimed at the promotion of Mexico as a tourist destination and boosting social welfare programs. (Note: In our online newsletter number 58, we reported that Mr. Whitelaw would be at the helm of the aforesaid association until last week, when indeed he’ll be in charge until later this year. We apologize for whatever inconvenience this misinformation would have caused.
Rebeca Jara, director of promotion in Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism and a member of the organizing committee of the 13th International Tourism Convention, told Caribbean News that the island nation’s top tourism event –scheduled for May 5 to 8 at the Plaza America Conference Center in Varadero- intends to highlight the country’s conditions to develop congress, conventions and incentives, as well as for ecological tourism and scuba diving. Mrs. Jara underscored the convention’s commercial and professional character in which the country’s tourism authorities plan to unveil a new array of products and showcase the tourist circuit of Holguin, where Cuba’s largest hotel –the Playa Pesquero- was opened earlier this year.