Terry Dale, president of the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) has announced the recent appointment of Peggy Murphy as vice president. A seven-year veteran of USTOA, Murphy previously held the position of director of operations, responsible for overseeing association operations including financial administration; annual conference organization and execution; and liaising with the membership committees. …
The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) recently concluded the 30th edition of Caribbean Travel Marketplace, held January 22-24 at the expansive Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. Long regarded as the Caribbean region’s most influential annual meeting of public and private sector tourism stakeholders this year’s gathering attracted a record number of government …
Reed Travel Exhibitions, organiser of the leading luxury travel events International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) and ILTM Asia, has announced the launch of the first luxury travel one-to-one summit to focus exclusively on the world’s largest outbound luxury travel market, North America, and the rapidly emerging Latin American market – ILTM Americas. The first ILTM …
The St. Maarten Annual Regional Trade Show (SMART) is slated for May 16 – 18, 2012 at the Radisson Blue Resort, Marina & Spa in St. Martin where the region comes together to support, interact and work together to promote tourism to the Eastern Caribbean. After years of success and progress, SMART 2012 focuses on …
The Belize Tourism Expo (BETEX) is a business-to-business event showcasing Belize travel destinations, hotels, tour operators, and other tourism service providers. It is an exclusive opportunity for international travel resellers (trade visitors) to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business with local travel suppliers (exhibitors), learn more about Belize, and experience the destination first-hand.BETEX is an …
Travel + Leisure has announced that Julia Douglas of Jet Set World Travel in Chicago and David Lowy of Renshaw Travel in Vancouver, British Columbia have been named to its prestigious Travel Agent Advisory Board (TAAB). The Travel + Leisure TAAB brings top agents into an ongoing dialogue with Travel + Leisure to provide insights …
Reed Travel Exhibitions is moving ahead with preparations for a new edition of La Cumbre, The Americas’ Travel Industry Summit, which will take place from September 5-7, 2012 at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek|Waldorf Astoria Orlando, in Orlando, Florida. Organizers tell us that exhibition spaces have been confirmed at a fast pace since the conclusion …
The 2nd Annual New Europe Travel Mart (NETM’12) will be held April 25 -27 in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the Grand Hotel Union. Originally launched in April 2011 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, NETM is designed to increase leisure travel to the region between the Baltic to the Balkans, a region that has evolved to become a …
Four of Thailand’s top niche-market tourism segments will be featured prominently at the 2012 Thailand Travel Mart Plus Amazing Gateway to the Greater Mekong Subregion (TTM+2012) to be held between June 6-8 at Impact Muang Thong Thani Exhibition Centre. Organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) together with the Thai tourism industry, the TTM …
IMEX America is the new trade show for the worldwide meetings, events and incentive travel industry. After a highly successful first show the second edition will take place October 9 – 11 2012 at the Sands Expo, Las Vegas, which is connected to the show’s headquarters hotels, The Venetian and The Palazzo. online pharmacy buy …