For Release
- October 12, 2009
2,300
Appointments Pre-Scheduled as Tour Operators,
Buyers, Meeting Planners, and Suppliers
Attend The 23rd Annual Cancun Travel Mart.
(Cancun, Mexico & Jacksonville, Florida) The President of the Cancun
Hotel Association, Rodrigo de la Peña, announces that almost 550 Tour
Operators, Buyers, Meeting Planners, and Mexico Suppliers have
registered and are expected to attend this week’s 23rd Cancun Travel
Mart Mexico Summit, October 14, 15, 16, at the Cancun Convention Center.
The “strictly business” format focuses on two (2) days of about 2,300
pre-scheduled business appointments between Buyers and Suppliers.
Organizers say that many more business appointments are personally
arranged “on-site” during the event.
In
addition to the pre-scheduled business appointments, The Cancun Travel
Mart, sponsored each year by the Cancun Hotel Association, brings Tour
Operators and Tourism Product & Services Buyers to Cancun from almost 20
countries for destination up-date reports, and hotel site inspections.
The Event includes tourism destinations from all of Mexico, not just
from Quintana Roo, the Riviera Maya, and the “Mexican Caribbean” region.
In addition to Tour Operators, carefully qualified Meeting Planners also
attend Cancun Travel Mart and receive VIP Site Inspections.
Cancun
Travel Mart ’09 Official Sponsors include: The Cancun Hotel Association;
Cancun Convention Center; AMAV – Quintana Roo Travel Agencies
Association; C.A.N.I.R.A.C. – The National Restaurant Association; Real
Resorts; TELMEX; and The Mera Corporation (Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.)
American Airlines is the Official Cancun Travel Mart Host Airline, and
offers preferred special fares for registered delegates.
Buyers
Registration Fees are $125 and include all official functions, airport
transfers, and shuttle transportation. Buyers arrange their hotel
accommodations with participating hotels.
Cancun
Hotel Association Members Registration Fees are $1,460 for up to 28
Pre-Scheduled Appointments or $1,860 for up to 56 Pre-Scheduled
Appointments. Suppliers also pay $225 per delegate. Registration Fees
for Suppliers who are NOT members of the Cancun Hotel Association or the
Hotel Association in their region are higher: $1,760 and $2,060.
Cancun
Hotel Association President Rodrigo de la Peña, stated: "Cancun Travel
Mart continues a decades long commitment to welcome our International
Travel Industry partners to this annual business development Event.
Cancun Travel Mart ‘09 comes at a critical time as Cancun, The Riviera
Maya, and other regions of Mexico work to recover from a very difficult
year, and cope with continuing economic uncertainty. This will be an
excellent opportunity for our Travel Industry Partners to personally
develop new products and promotions for 2010."
Irma
Coleman, President & CEO of William H. Coleman, Inc., the Cancun Travel
Mart Event Management Firm stated: "All of us associated with Cancun
Travel Mart are very pleased that such a large number of senior
executives who have a direct impact on Mexico Tourism are attending this
Event, especially after such a challenging and difficult year.”
Detailed information is available on the web site:
www.cancuntravelmart.com,
or directly from William H. Coleman, Inc.: Telephone: 904-398-6777,
Extensions 8022 and 8025; FAX: 904-391-0038; E Mail:
sales@whcoleman.com.
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