Sectors being promoted in the event include sustainable tourism, health and wellbeing tourism, laboratories, contact centers, digital content development, and software.
Companies from Guatemala, Central America and Peru since yesterday, September 29, have held negotiations with 34 foreign buyers.
"Guillermo Montano, vice president of Agexport, said the services sector will grow19.7 percent this year and generate $397.3 million, the projection for 2015 is triple that amount and is expected to exceed $1.000 million", published Elperiodico.com.gt.
Source: elperiodico.com.gt
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May 2011
The third edition of the Summit of Exports of Services, “Service Summit”, will take place on 29 and 30 September.
At the event, Guatemala will open its doors to Presidents of Associations and Chambers of Information in Communication Technologies from 21 countries, suppliers of technology products and services, national and regional media, representatives of national and international government institutions and over 60 international buyers and brokers, all from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Europe.
September 2011
Sectors such as handicrafts expect to do business at a two-day event, called New World Craft.
Besides this event, the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) is organizing for its members to take part in the Service Summit convention, where sectors such as call centers, digital content development, sustainable tourism and health, among others, estimate business of $25 million will be done.
September 2009
The second edition of the services exporting summit was inaugurated today.
Service Summit will gather companies providing exportable services in Guatemala.
"Event organizers reported 692 scheduled business meetings in 85 exhibitor locations", published local newspaper Prensa Libre.
May 2009
From September 10-12, special business conferences and a special fair will be conducted for the sectors.
The Guatemalan Association of Exporters launched the SERVICE SUMMIT on May 28. It is an Export Services Summit which includes the areas of Contact Center & BPO, Software Export, Laboratories, Health and Wellness Tourism and Sustainable Tourism.