48 the review TOURISM UPDATE Exciting times for St Kitts
CAROL HAY UK Manager,
Caribbean Tourism Organisation
SEE YOU AT WTM 2014! THE Caribbean Tourism Organization will host a Travel Agents Training Day at World Travel Market on the Wednesday (November 5) this year, on Stand CA265. Agents will be able to meet Caribbean industry partners and participate in the Caribbean Treasure Hunt, with the chance to win some great prizes, including accommodation stays and fam trip places. The Training Day will start at 10am with presentations from industry
partners
including the event sponsor Sunrise Marketing, as well as AM Resorts, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, Grenada Tourism Authority,
Guadeloupe Islands
Tourist Board, Elite Island Resorts, Harlequin Hotels & Resorts, Half-Moon - A Rock Resort, Jamaica Tourist Board, JWP Collection, Saint Lucia Tourist Board and Trinidad & Tobago Tourist Office.
There will be two
presentation sessions 10:15-11:15am and 11:20am-12:20pm; followed by an informal canapé lunch on the stand and the Caribbean
Treasure Hunt around the
Caribbean Village area. Pre-registration is required for the Training Day so to register call Ann-Marie Brooks on 020 8948 0057. To round off the day, agents will be
entertained at our popular Caribbean Street Party sponsored by Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board and the Trinidad & Tobago Tourist Office, from 5-8pm. Refreshments will be provided. Don’t miss out! Please note that each participant
is
required to obtain their own entry pass to WTM directly with the organisers. Priority will be given to UK travel agents registered on the Caribbean Travel Guru Training Programme (
caribbeantravelguru.com); and those agents who haven’t previously attended the CTO’s Agent Training Day at World Travel Market.
BY ALAN ORBELL THE St. Kitts Tourism Authority has announced that the first phase of sustainable community Kittitian Hill is due to open in December, with CEO Racquel Brown reiterating the importance of the trade to its success and the island’s tourism sector in general. “This is an exciting time in St. Kitts,”
Brown said. We get around 10,000 UK visitors a year but want to increase this by 3.2% per annum. We’re adding 300 rooms to our stock by 2016 and developing niche markets like culture and history and golf – we hope to have a major golf tournament in 2016. She added: “We want St. Kitts to be in
peoples’ top five destinations and we’ll be offering incentives to agents and operators who help us achieve this.” The first accommodation to open at Kittitian Hill is Belle Mont Farm, set among 400 acres of organic farmland and forest, with one-bedroom guesthouses and larger farmhouses. Boutique-style Belle Mont will offer sustainable urban living.
Guesthouses will have open
verandas and a porch or pool deck with sea and forest views. Ideal for families or groups of up to eight couples, farmhouses are built around a pavilion and kitchen. The second phase of accommodation
will be the three or four-bed Yaya Groves villas, also self-catering.
kittitianhill.com
VIRGIN ADDS OMAN AND SRI LANKA
VIRGIN Holidays has added east coast Sri Lanka and Salalah in Oman to its
latest
2015/16 Dubai, Indian Ocean & Beyond programme. Valid for departures from January 1, 2015 the programme also includes Mauritius, Abu Dhabi, Jordan and off-the- beaten-track Nepal . New hotels added include the 4V VIDA Downtown Dubai. For bookings made before August
31, 30% off Caribbean Tourism Organization
22 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1BP Tel: 020 8948 0057 Fax: 020 8948 0067
caribbean.co.uk
2015, there’s accommodation for
holidays booked to travel between December 23, 2015 and January 3, 2016.
vhols4agents.co.uk
Brazil’s hidden gem
BRAZIL Travel Association (VBRATA) has unveiled a campaign introducing off-the-beaten-track destinations to UK tour operators and tourists, and launching an agent training programme for the state of Maranhão. Glauco Chris Fuzinatto, Chairman
of VBRATA Europe, said: “We want UK visitors to discover one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. Maranhão has the perfect mix
one of the most unknown Brazilian natural
attractions: the Lençóis
Maranhenses, a landscape of white sands dunes filled with crystal- clear water lakes. Maranhão Online Training is
offering prizes to agents who train by November 15 2014 including an iPad and meals out in London, Brighton, Glasgow and Manchester.
maranhao-onlinetraining.co.uk
between natural beauty,
architecture and historical heritage.”
Maranhão is home to
sellingtravel.co.uk
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