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Puerto Rico Convention Center Opens for Business
Thursday, 24/11/2005
Caribeinside.com

The Puerto Rico Convention Center, a $415 million facility located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, opened its doors for business last week. The opening was marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony that kicked off three days of activities and special events for invited guests and VIPs at the Center, in and around San Juan.

The all-new Puerto Rico Convention Center was conceived by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a way of broadening the Island´s successful tourism industry with increased group and business travel.

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National Tour Association Appoints New Chairman

Michele Michalewicz, CTP, a Salt Lake City travel professional and president of Western Leisure, Inc. has been inducted as the 2009 chairman and CEO of the National Tour Association. NTA is the industry’s premier packaged travel association made up of more than 3,000 members from around the globe.

 
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Travel Agents to Be in Higher Demand in 2009

by Sharon Chambers

Peter Yesawich, president and CEO of Ypartnership, expects more consumers to turn to travel agents when planning their trips in 2009. Meanwhile, research conducted by Ypartnership states that the travel intentions of Americans remain strong as 71 percent of active travel households are planning at least one overnight trip during the next six months –the same amount as one year ago.

 
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CTO to Launch Social Network for Agents

by Gay Nagle Myers

The Caribbean Tourism Organization in January will launch online programs aimed at improving its North American chapter system and the way that travel agents do business.

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Golf Resorts Being Upscaled in Puerto Rico

This seaside stretch, a half-hour’s drive east of the airport in San Juan, is not placid in midday. Construction equipment rumbles through the beachfront while workers sweat out installing the marble floors and granite countertops in developer Donald Trump’s latest Caribbean venture.

 
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Antigua Air Traffic Slows Down

A flow control system implemented by air traffic controllers at the VC Bird International Airport in Antigua has been disrupting flights in and out of the island during the Christmas rush.

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