Conference
in Central America
Thursday, January 12, 2012
In February, the ‘Maritime Summit for a legal and logistics global platform' will be held.
The Panama Canal Authority and the Iberoamerican Institute of Maritime Law will hold an international conference in February with participation of specialists in the maritime sector.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Organized by the Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rican Medicine, the third Latin American Medical Tourism Congress will be held from the 23rd to 25th April, 2012.
The event will be held at the Hotel Real Intercontinental and is expected to be attended by 500 guests.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Tourism industry representatives are participating in the Annual Meeting of the United States Association of Tour Operators, known by the acronym USTOA.
A press release from the newspaper "El Pueblo Presidente" reads:
The CEO of INTUR, Architect Mario Salinas Pasos, is heading a delegation that is participating in North America in the Annual Meeting of the United States Association of Tour Operators known by the acronym USTOA.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Experts from the World Customs Organization (WCO) will gather today, December 9, in Panama to discuss counterfeiting and piracy.
In the meeting, in which twelve countries of the region are participating, new routes identified for the transit of counterfeit goods and new methods used to counterfeit products will be publicised.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The event will be held in Guatemala from 9 to April 12, 2012, and has the theme "The Present and Future of Latin American ports in the Era of Multimodality and Logistics."
With an emphasis on multimodaling and logistics, the port community on the continent will meet in Antigua, a city declared Historical Patrimony of Humanity by UNESCO, between 9 and April 12, 2012, where authorities and executives of international port terminals, business sector providers, will gather to participate in the meeting organized by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) and the National port Commission (NPC) in Guatemala convening under the theme: "Present and Future of American Ports in the Era of Multimodality and Logistics. "
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The TOC Container Supply Chain Americas conference will be held November 15-17 at the El Panama hotel, Panama City.
With the theme of "Redefining the logistics scene in the region," the three-day conference will seek to discover a source of revenue for the much-needed infrastructure improvements throughout the region, to understand the connectivity of land transport networks, and to develop strategies for coping with continuing increases in the volume and size of ships.
Friday, November 11, 2011
The third Medical Travel Conference will be held from 23 to 25 April, 2012.
The event is organized by the International Council for the Promotion of Medicine in Costa Rica (PROMED) and the Costa Rican tourist board.
Monday, October 24, 2011
The XV Latin American Conference on Free Zones will discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, especially from 2015 when the WTO requires the elimination of export tax incentives.
The "XV Latin American Conference on Free Zones" will take place from 26th to 28th October this year at the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Starting today, September 21, the First Central American Congress on Organic Agriculture takes place in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The conference aims to promote sustainable consumption and production as a means to improve quality of life.
Experiences in Central America in terms of production, processing, marketing and research of organic products will be shared and documented.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
This year El Salvador will attend the OAS’s Inter-American Congress. The main theme is to develop business competitiveness as a tool for tourism development.
The OAS announced the following on its website:
The XIX Inter-American Travel Congress to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 29 and 30 September, 2011 will focus on the following theme "Tourism, a challenge to poverty." Other important issues, such as the importance of public-private partnerships to promote investment and development for the tourism sector, tourism and cultural heritage, social responsibility of enterprises in the tourism industry and the challenges for sustainable tourism will also be discussed in plenary sessions.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Authorities from the hemisphere will discuss methods of preventing money laundering in financial institutions.
Experts from Costa Rica, the United States, Colombia and other Latin American countries are participating in the congress organized by the Banking Association and the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering, which will run until Friday.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Panama Canal Administrator Alberto Zubieta German, has announced that the First World Congress on Engineering and Infrastructure will take place in Panama from 18 to 20 April 2012.
The event will be attended by experts from 10 countries who will speak on international trends in the sector.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Representatives from the government have submitted a proposal to promote improved profitability for the sector.
In order to promote the idea the National Hospitality Congress will be held on 4 and 5 August.
Among the topics to be discussed are, labor flexibility, excessive paperwork for new tourism projects, tips and infrastructure problems.
Gustavo Araya, a member of the board of the Costa Rican Chamber of Hotels (CCH) commented on the extensive paperwork saying, "... this is what affects us most because an investor currently has to go through 1950 steps in 51 public institutions.
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