The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), together with the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association, Puerto Rico Tourism Company and Virgin Holidays, are inviting registrations to Caribbean Marketplace 2010.
Taking place at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan from 10-12 January 2010, next year’s Caribbean Marketplace has been deemed absolutely critical due to its timing at the cusp of what many experts are speculating will be the beginning of the tourism industry’s recovery.
Caribbean Marketplace is the requisite business-to-business marketing event for the Caribbean hotel and tourism industry to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business with buyers from around the world.
Caribbean Marketplace 2010 is expected to be even larger than the 2009 event, which saw the number of booths top the 400 mark for the first time in a decade. 12,292 appointments were scheduled in 2009, second only to the record set in 2008.
“Attending Caribbean Marketplace 2010 is hands down the most important thing you can do for your tourism product as we enter the new decade,” said Enrique De Marchena Kaluche, President of CHTA, and a former president of the Dominican Republic leading hotel association.
“It is widely known that the greatest fortunes are made by those who not only survive a slump, but are well positioned at the start of a major economic recovery. This makes Caribbean Marketplace 2010 critical for all members of the region’s hospitality sector, including tour operators who are likely to walk away from Caribbean Marketplace with some very lucrative contracts,” De Marchena Kaluche noted.
For more information or to register for Caribbean Marketplace 2010, call CHTA at 305-443-3040, e-mail: events@caribbeanhotelandtourism.com or visit http://www.caribbeanhotelandtourism.com/Marketplace.php.