Organizers of worldwide meetings, incentive travel and events trade show, IMEX America, came away from the Exhibition News Awards in London recently as winners of the Best International Launch Award. Explaining why IMEX America triumphed over some stiff competition, the judging panel summarized their decision as: “IMEX America ‘nailed it’ as a show concept. It was …
Ocho Rios will host the 22nd annual Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX), from September 21-23, 2012. The island’s premier travel trade show, JAPEX will take place at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort & Spa. JAPEX serves as a forum for leading Jamaican suppliers of the island’s tourism product to meet with travel wholesalers and tour operators …
The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year and to mark the momentous occasion, CHTA, in conjunction with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and Jamaica, is hosting a Caribbean Tourism Summit June 15-16, 2012 at the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica. The Caribbean Tourism Summit is open to all …
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 …
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 …