2009 Travel News Archive – Page 23

Dominican hotel executives will be attending the Caribbean Marketplace, scheduled for 18-20 January in St. Lucia. The event will be the first regional marketing event to test the pulse of how the global financial crisis may affect travel reservations in the Caribbean in 2009. Caribbean Marketplace is the most important annual sales and marketing event …

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With competition getting stronger, 2009 promises to be as challenging a year as 2008, says Peter Yesawich, president of Ypartnership, the leading US travel and entertainment marketing firm. Yesawich says that there continues to be “plenty of demand” but marketers will have to be aggressive and clever to capture this. For 2009, Yesawich says that …

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