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FITUR International Fair 2010 will host an international seminar which will discuss the implementation of the roadmap for recovery "of the WTO, this as a continuation of the seminar organized by the Secretariat of the UNWTO Affiliate Members in 2009, an event that gathered more than 200 tourism executives from over 30 countries worldwide.

In this event addressed the challenges and opportunities of global tourism to the economic crisis. This year starts, on 21 January is convened in Madrid, a highly qualified group of European tourism industry professionals who seek to examine and make proposals that contribute to provide greater depth to the roadmap for recovery ", one of major tourism policy documents produced by the WTO, which was adopted unanimously at the last General Assembly held in Kazakhstan.

The city of Buenos Aires in Argentina, to date, would have a hotel reservation from 86 percent to celebrate the New Year and enjoy the Dakar Rally South of tourists from Latin American countries, with Brazil at the head, and informed the official body of the city.

The start of the world's most famous rally will be held on January 1 in the Argentine capital, in particular encouraged the Brazilians to buy packs of three and four nights. The four-star hotels have an occupancy of 83 percent, a percentage that rises to 90 percent in the five stars.

Thousands of pilgrims accompanied the Christian minority in Bethlehem on Christmas Day holiday, good weather and the hope of a better future and perhaps a peace between Israelis and Palestinians, these days, this mostly Muslim city known for Christian symbols and Christmas ornaments and musical performances and before the traditional Misa de Gallo, Place of the Nativity has been full of visitors.

Israeli and Palestinian estimates, between 55 thousand and 70 thousand pilgrims and foreign tourists this week defied the global economic crisis to travel to the Holy Land, a flow that Bethlehem is huge as it is more than double its population is 30 thousand people.

The city of Cusco, characterized by the large influx of tourism that appeals to the party this year, this opportunity will promote various tourism promotion activities that will be institutionalized as of this year, it launched the "Always On Cusco my mind ", which aims to promote domestic tourism to Cusco.

For the Christmas and New Year activities were initiated on December 24 with the Fair "Santurantikuy 2009" is now the nation's cultural heritage. To December 28 is the day of the innocent to the West, the Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism will provide a spiritual context, reassessing the time of the ancestors where they made the "Place Raymi.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, reported that small and medium enterprises, called a Peruvian SMEs during 2010 may consolidate its exports to Latin American countries, as they work to lower barriers to trade.

In this regard, the industry minister, Martin Perez said that the agenda of trade negotiations has his office next year is prioritized talks with Latin American countries.

XIII National Congress of Tourism 25 to 27 February event that counted with the participation of businessmen in this country, representatives of the executive authorities of the regional directorates of Foreign Trade and Tourism, local government officials, foreign exhibitors , among others.

This event is organized by the National Chamber of Tourism (Canatur), which will explore the challenges and expectations of the General Tourism Law No. 29,408, promulgated recently by the Congress of Peru.

In the island of Baru, located forty minutes by sea from Cartagena de Indias, recently opened its luxury resort Royal Decameron Baru, which has more than 300 rooms with sea views, four restaurants, four bars, snacks, three swimming pools, fitness center, spa and a convention center equipped with advanced technology for 700 people, plus a business center.

The luxury resort, which involved an investment greater than $ 25 million, is the first built in the Colombian Caribbean coast of the island, raising the hotels and entertainment in Cartagena de Indias, which receives more than one million tourists year, and this year received 350,000 visitors who came on 194 cruises.

A "Tourist Train" comes through the streets and plazas of Spain As Pontes, who was with Santa on board until December 24 with the Kings after and theater, and a final gala of the "Merca nas Pontes "shape the Christmas program 2009-2010, which has organized the Council of As Pontes, through the Department of Culture.

The Department of Culture As Pontes council has organized a program for the holidays festive. The Tourist Train, began to tour the last Friday 18 to tour the streets and parishes in Pontes As with Santa on board, which was one of the more popular attractions that attracted an outstanding program.

Puerto Rico, as a country, continue to promote and emerging as an ideal destination for medical tourism development, this space competing with the United States and declare Milton Segarra, executive director of Hima Health, the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero, on the grounds that many of the medical treatments that are performed in the United States can easily take place in Puerto Rico and a lower price and can save between 40 and 70 percent.

He detailed that one of the major strengths, in his view, is that the difference in cost, coupled with the quality of doctors and hospitals in Puerto Rico, are windows that are presented to companies, associations and company health plans so they know the quality of medical services offered by the island.

The estimated year-end party in the Sea of the Valparaiso generate profits for the tourism sector of around 30 billion pesos, and released the Consetur regional president, Jorge Martinez and Regional Director Sernatur Katrina Sanguinetti, who explained that this figure shows an estimate of spending per person of 30 thousand dollars, and an influx of visitors to Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Concon and the rest of the region, at least one million people.

A New Year's party joins a historic event with many surprises, because they get to 2010, the year of the Bicentennial of the Republic of Chile. While the municipalities of Valparaiso, Viña del Mar and Concon and Provincial Government have worked in a coordinated manner to facilitate the movement of traffic streams for the different accesses to the bay.

From Monday 21 until 31 December this year, the Tourism Board of Mexico will raffle 10 trips for two to the tourist cities of Cancun, Huatulco and Puerto Vallarta this draw will be made between human users of social networks such as Facebook , Twitter, Sonic, YouTube and Flickr, with competitions in the campaign Web site thanks to you Live Mexico.

Thus, it bets on social networks, which increasingly are recorded with the objective of promoting domestic tourism. In addition to the 10 trips (one day), giving away 10 kits that include a traveler's suitcase, two towels, two caps and two shirts with the image of the campaign.

were presented the details governing the installation of the Hall of Fame Baseball Latino Altos de Chavon, it was announced that during the week of 23 to 30 May 2010, at Altos de Chavon, there will be various activities relating to the exaltation of players who eventually will be selected in conjunction with other artistic activities carried out during the celebration of this event.

Sports like golf, shooting, tennis, polo and sailing will be introduced as a participatory medium in conjunction with activities such as baseball clinics for professional players at the stadium Francisco A. Micheli, international series of minor league baseball, cockteil and dinner, honoring all of the Caribbean winter leagues.

In Mexico, from 2010 that is approaching the Vive Mexico campaign enters a new stage in strengthening the tourism sector, so informed the director of marketing for Tourism Promotion Council of Mexico, Carlos Behnsen Flathmann, who also qualify for this campaign as a social movement to be a very important factor in convincing Mexicans to travel within their country before going to international destinations.

Which is why it presents its second phase, thanks to you, Vive Mexico. They expect a return to 2010 levels by 2008: in other currencies is expected reach 13 billion dollars and in international tourist arrivals, 23 million people, it is to have a growth of almost 10% from what was reached in 2009.

International Film Festival Gay and Lesbian Gran Canaria, which is done with extraordinary success over the past five years has become a reference point for the LGBT film world, so that the fifth edition will take place from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 January 2010, where for ten days, film fans will have the opportunity to enjoy a selection of the best debut film, homosexual themes, produced in various parts of the world.

The festival aims to promote respect for diversity affective, showing the multiple realities of gays and lesbians from anywhere in the key of comedy, drama, suspense or action, is an event for gay and lesbian film aimed at a heterogeneous audience packed the cinemas on the occasion of each session of the editions held so far.

The World Tourism Organization, UNWTO and CNN International are moving in the strategic partnership signed in November between the Organization and the Group TASK (Advertising Solutions & Knowledge for Tourism) from CNN, this agreement allows WTO and cooperate in TASK events to ensure that professionals receive the most interesting knowledge and the latest industry data.

The WTO and share content TASK Group, will join forces in the bulletins and promote each other tourist services. The acting Secretary General of UNWTO, Taleb Rifai, said that the strategic alliance between WTO and CNN International is a significant step towards the projection of the potential economic, cultural, social and environmental tourism.

The world sporting events such as the 2014 World Cup and the Olympic ames River in 2016 will allow the country to triple Brazilian until the end of the next decade, the inflow of foreign currency that will be left by tourists who visit Brazil.

According to projections by the Ministry of Tourism, Brazil through 2020 estimated to receive about 17 thousand 600 million dollars, an increase of 304 per ciento.Los data are part of the goals of the "Watercolor Plan" recently submitted by the Ministry of Tourism and the state tourism body Embratur, which aims to maximize the opportunity for two major sporting events on the planet.

The Regional Federation of Folklore and Culture of the city of Puno, Peru, reported that promotional material was handed over to the Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be distributed to 160 embassies and 60 consulates in the world to promote this religious festival, which is one of the largest in Peru.

Reported that they have developed three types of commercials, 15 thousand posters and an equal number of leaflets with the activities taking place between 31 January and 9 February. It has the support of PromPeru and institutions of public and private sectors who are committed to this event.

(HotelesViajesyTurismo.com) .- The Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Martin Perez, who were eight reported decentralized publishing fairs "Peru, Mucho Gusto," in order to reassess the living culture and cuisine of the different departments in this country, to have a big event in Lima, attended by the best chefs and dishes voted throughout Peru.

The first fair decentralized "Peru, Mucho Gusto" is performed in the department of Piura, where the minister is necessary for making a great effort so that Peruvian cuisine is becoming a destination for tourists.

In the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the meeting took place PRONATUR, which gathers the National Secretariat of Tourism, INTA and the Provinces, to develop a plan of Policy Promotion and Marketing of Rural Tourism Ministry Tourism.

This meeting was attended by provincial institutional referents and private institutions involved in the issue. In the meeting included presentations and then an exchange of experiences and reflections of associations and individual enterprises belonging to different productive regions with roots, cultural traditions, and geographical location which served to position various ideas and lines of action for the coming years.

The presidents of Peru, Alan García Pérez, and Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, agreed to adopt a bilateral agreement for project development and technical cooperation in the field of "International Roaming" on Border Integration Zone Peru - Brazil. This agreement aims to facilitate the use of telephone and Internet at a lower cost, thereby promoting further development and social inclusion of their populations.

This acuersdo was a product of the official visit of Brazilian president to Peru to strengthen bilateral relations and follow up the Border Meeting they held in the city of Rio Blanco, on 28 April this year.

The new edition of International Tourism Fair, FIT Bolivia 2010, runs from 4 to 7 March 2010 in the Exhibition Center of Tarija. This event will feature new developments and activities intended to convene a larger number of visitors, both local and international, because of the success of the event in past encounters.

FIT Bolivia is rated as the most important exhibition of tourism in the Andean country, which convenes each year about eight thousand visitors and 150 stands in the presence of more than 700 tourism professionals from America and around the world.

The main objective of 'Consulting Lab', consulting the Tourism Intelligence Laboratory Andalusian, Andalucía Lab, has launched, you find that "The region will become the destination with a greater presence on the Internet.

The consultancy, through an electronic commerce program, seeks to position in the network to the accommodation and catering sectors in Andalusia and it has 3.2 million euros from the Junta de Andalucía. It was reported that this program will work with more than five thousand companies.

Another aspect in which the work will be on Web 2.0, so that businesses and customers can interact.

The next meeting of Café 2.0, organized by HOSTELTUR supported by SEGITTUR, will be held on Monday December in Madrid, with the theme 'Social networks in the service of tourism' theme for discussion and sharing. SEGITTUR and HOSTELTUR, organizers of the presentation, invite all interested to attend this breakfast seminar to be held at NH Eurobuilding of Madrid, in which different professionals will tell their experiences in using social networks for business Desk.

After the opening of the symposium Love Mexico, tourism director, Jesus Martin Medina, said the wedding tourism is a segment highly demanded in the Riviera Maya, so that generates millions in economic income

In Love Mexico involves 40 companies offering hotels, banquets, restaurants, wedding designers and attended by 120 Wedding Planners. A many as 80 per cent of buyers are Americans, 15 percent in Canada and five percent from Mexico, said Araminta Castillo, managing partner of the event is organized by the corporation Mexico Wed.

For today, 7 December, will the public presentation of the first ship specially designed SpaceShipTwo space tourism, which introduced the British billionaire Richard Brenson, owner of Virgin Galactic group (VG).

The event is scored VG as world premiere and it augurs a new era in aerospace history, performed in one particular cosmodrome located in a desert of California, USA. Under an expected era of space tourism will begin in 2011.

Peru Expo Fair that was held last weekend in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is developing quite successfully, and successfully concluded the sale of Argentine businessmen Peruvian products by approximately $ 13 million.

The event was organized by the MINCETUR, with the partition of 55 Peruvian businessmen who had the opportunity to do business with 150 businessmen from Argentina. One example is Guillermo Siles, chief executive of exports of Santiago Queirolo, who finalized appointments with 17 Argentine companies with the aim of introducing the Peruvian pisco in that market.

Business owners in the countries of Colombia and Ecuador signed an alliance to promote tourism in the regions of the common border or close to them, through which seeks to cut costs and eliminate immigration requirements. This partnership involves the province of Esmeraldas and the Colombian cities of Cali and Popayan.

To this end, I think the Association of Colombian-Ecuadorian Border Tourism Integration initiative in Esmeraldas was consolidated after two months of visits to these areas by agents and tourists from both countries.

The Department of Culture and Tourism of the Government of Navarra, Spain,
participated in the trade fair and congress EIBTM, which was held in Barcelona between 1 and 3 December this year, which participated along with the body Pamplona Convention Bureau. In the development of the fair is held several meetings with tourism industry professionals to raise awareness and Navarre infrastructure that has to do conferences and incentives.

Fair business, EIBTM is a major trade exhibitions to
industry conferences, incentives, events, business trips and congresses. In the last edition, the event Congress to more than 8 thousand visitors, with exhibitors from over 170 countries around the
world.

According to a publication of the Australian company HotelClub Travel, Punta del Este would occupy the top of a list of tourist places where gays are welcome. The publication lists the nine gay friendly cities in the world, which is located in Punta del Este, over cities like Lisbon, Mexico City, Shanghai and Nashville.

In Punta del Este indicated that Argentine and Brazilian gay tourists flock to this resort, which continues to grow as a popular destination for international tourists has several areas of entertainment and hospitality.

Mexico will be hosted in September 2010 at the First International Tourism Fair of the Americas called FITA, which is projected to assist 300 thousand people from over 70 countries.

It was reported that the meeting will take place from 23 to 26 September in Mexico City for this purpose, the authorities of this country expected a profit of $ 70 million, generate 4 thousand 600 direct jobs and tens of thousands of indirect .