Travel Group
International Tourism Exhibition In Latin America
Gerardo Gross. The show used the five pavilions that own the premises of La Rural, totaling an area of ??42,600 meters square of which were distributed over 240 stands. In addition the sector in Brazil, there was an area devoted exclusively to domestic provinces and cities, one for the Caribbean and Central America and a fifth section for international destinations in South America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. This edition had a 5 per cent more exhibition space and 3 percent more exhibitors than the FIT 2010.
Each of the Argentine provinces had its own booth, which showed typical products of the various regions, culture, history and main tourist areas. In addition, national and international exhibitors offered visitors art shows, wine tastings and games, especially during the weekend, when FIT was opened for general public and professionals.
The opening ceremony was held on Friday 28 at night, with speeches from Henry Meyer, Minister of Tourism of the Nation, and Ricardo Rosa, president of the Argentina Association of Travel and Tourism and president of FIT 2011, while the Saturday 29 afternoon opened the show with the traditional ribbon cutting, which took Meyer and Rosa as well as national, provincial and municipal governments across the country, foreign ambassadors and business leaders in tourism.
In subsequent days participated in FIT 2011 governors of various provinces, foreign ministers and ambassadors’ tourism in several countries, who visited their representations and toured the show. In addition, important sports personalities and television, film and theater took part in various promotional activities in the provincial or business stands, particularly in those places famous for their theatrical seasons, such as Mar del Plata, in the province of Buenos Aires and Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba.
The three halls of the headquarters of the Rural were almost a hundred lectures and discussions that were offered to visitors. The auditorium was used by the Argentina Association of Travel and Tourism (AAAVYT) and the Association of Travel and Tourism Argentina Buenos Aires (AVIABUE) who presented any kind of talks related to tourism. In the Halls B and C gave lectures and provincial government tourism agencies and companies providing services related to tourism.
Fair Franchising Showing Porto de Almeida Will Travel
Almeida Travel Group participates in the next fair Oporto franchise “Franchise Show”, a meeting which presents the latest developments in the area of ??franchise and held on 4 and November 5 at the fairgrounds Exponor.The organization of ‘Franchise Show’ hopes that this meeting goes through some 4,000 visitors between entrepreneurs and investors. A franchise attends these fair 26 sectors of activity that will present their business model. During the two-day training sessions will take place and sect oral working groups.
“For Group Travel Almeida these meetings are a great opportunity to present to stakeholders our business model, which already has a strong track record in Portugal,” said Immaculate Almeida, Director General of the Group.
Since 2007, the Almeida Travel Group is present in Portugal, which became the first of its internationalization strategy and where it currently has more than 80 travel agencies.
Almeida Travel Group consists of 400 branches in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Brazil. Noted for its strong commitment to technology innovation in all processes of travel agencies and the creation of tourism products themselves. Almeida and Wholesale Travel Tour operators have the Q for Quality Turks. In addition, Almeida Travel Group is certified with the ISO 9001:2008 quality standard in marketing and management of travel agencies.
Travel Almeida recently promoted business diversification strategy most important held in the travel agency networks, and has included it in their agencies ‘Everything for your journey’, i.e. the sale of travel accessories, such as guides, suitcases, plug adapters, etc… This new concept in travel agency, which has been successfully tested for a year in some agencies of the group, offers more services to customers and profitability to the franchisee. Thus Almeida Travel offers two businesses into one to increase the competitiveness and profitability of their franchises.