Bit 2001 Milan

The 21st Milan Tourism Fair welcome participants of over 140 countries and over 5,000 companies in 800 booths. Excellences was also present.

Excellences presented at the Milan’s International Tourism Event in Italy, the Italian issue number 2, Caraibi. The significant presence of the Caribbean and Latin-American countries has been stronger in this Fair, since the exhibition has been enlarged with a joint area for islands under the name of "Villaggio Caraibico". Among the most outstanding events are the Golden Helm award received by Cuba and granted to Julio Santos, director of the Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism office based in Italy. Among the Fair special areas are Bit Virtual that offered new technologies for tourism with on-line and multimedia services and Bit Neway, a space with four theme areas, where the latest on spas, gastronomy, natural parks and outdoors tourism have been exhibited. These special areas proved to be successful in the establishement of contacts with especialized operators, hotels and local tourism developers.

Itb Berlin

Berlin welcome another edition of the International Tourism Exchange with over 10,000 exhibitors from 179 countries. Excellences attended the event and presented its publishing products to the German market.

The ITB has increased over 13% the number of exhibitors. The participation of the Caribbean and Latin American countries reached the number of 47. ITB showed new economic sectors as “Tourism and Culture”, with 120 exhibitors from 21 countries, that exhibited the cultural sides of the destinations. It was also remarkable the special programmes for the Youth and the Third Age, the Travel Technology and a congress for e-commerce. The Tourism Documentation Center (CDT), under the direction of the Spaniard Miguel Montes, has 29,000 tourism books and magazines, brochures, videos and CD ROM from 231 countries. The Center participated with 2 booths where presented the 2nd International Exhibition of Tourism and Travel Book and the 1st International Exhibition of Tourism Magazines. Excellences Group took part in both with its editorial products, as Excelencias de la Formación, in the technique publications section, and two books: “Hecho en Cuba” and the Havana’s Cultural Directory “Dónde ir-2001”. The whole amount of publications was over 800 in the Exhibition .