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See Ecuador
May 2010 - Details coming soon!

 

 

       

330 Travel Industry Buyers, Travel Agents, Suppliers
Arrived In Quito, Cuenca, Guayaquil for the
2nd Annual See Ecuador Business Development Event.

(Quito, Cuenca, Guayaquil, Ecuador & Jacksonville, Florida) Over 330 Tour Operator/Buyers, Retail Travel Agents, and Ecuador Suppliers participated at a unique six (6) day business development event May 4-9, 2009 in Quito, Cuenca, and Guayaquil. The 2nd Annual “See Ecuador” Schedule of Events featured seminars, sightseeing, site inspections, pre-scheduled meetings between Buyers, Travel Agents, and Suppliers, and sponsored social functions.

“See Ecuador” is designed to increase inbound tourism to all four (4) of Ecuador’s Tourism Regions/Destinations: Amazon, Andes, Pacific Coast, and Galapagos. Tour Operator Buyers and Retail Travel Agents from the USA, Canada, Europe, and Suppliers from all Ecuador destinations participate. The Event Management Firm, William H. Coleman, Inc. confirms that 1,773 business appointments between Tour Operators, Buyers, Travel Agents and Ecuador Suppliers were pre-scheduled by The Company’s unique “SelectMatch” system.

The “See Ecuador” activities included:

• May 4 & 5, Quito: Arrivals, Seminars, Site Inspections, City Tours.
• May 6 & 7, Cuenca: Seminars, Site Inspections, City Tours, “Marketplace Business Appointments”
• May 8 & 9, Guayaquil: Seminars, Site Inspections, City Tours.
• May 10, Guayaquil: Extensions & Departures.

A special seminar/workshop for Buyers and Suppliers moderated by Colin Rusch, President, Rusch and Company, Toronto, Canada, “South America Still Looking Good – Opportunities for Ecuador,” was held at 9:30 Thursday, May 7, at the Convention Center.

Tour Operator/Buyers paid a $250 registration fee and received single room accommodations at host hotels, inter-city air transportation, airport transfers, pre-scheduled “Marketplace” appointments with Suppliers and Travel Agents, seminars, sightseeing, site inspections, social functions, ground transportation, and a CD Directory of all participants.

Travel Agent Registration fees were $195 that include double room accommodations at host hotels, inter-city air transportation, airport transfers, pre scheduled “Marketplace” appointments with Suppliers and Tour Operators, seminars and workshops, all business and social functions, ground transportation, and a CD Directory of all participants.

Registered and confirmed Tour Operators/Buyers and Travel Agents also were eligible for discount airfares on American Airlines, the Official “See Ecuador” Airline. LAN Airlines also offered travel industry discounts from the United States. Ecuador Host Airlines TAME and AeroGal sponsored and provided special tickets for Tour Operators/Buyers & Travel Agents to fly between Quito-Cuenca-Guayaquil.

Suppliers paid a $795 Registration Fee that included two delegates, a booth/office/table-top and pre-scheduled appointments with Tour Operators/Buyers and Travel Agents at the “Marketplace” in Cuenca Thursday, May 7, participation at business and social functions, and a CD Directory of all participants. Suppliers also qualified for a reduced round trip airfare to Cuenca on AeroGal & TAME, the official See Ecuador Host Country Airlines.

Quito Visitors’ Bureau, Cuenca Tourism Board, Guayas Chamber of Tourism and the Ministry of Tourism Ecuador - Tourism Promotion Board are major sponsors for See Ecuador.

Host Hotels and Sponsors in each city for See Ecuador 2009 included Quito: Hilton Colon, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Quito, JW Marriott, Swissotel, and Surtrek Tour Operator; Cuenca: Hotel Carvallo, Hotel Crespo, El Dorado Hotel, Hotel Inca Real, Mansion Alcazar Boutique Hotel, Oro Verde Cuenca, Hotel Boutique Santa Lucia, and Cazhuma Tours; Guayaquil: Hotel Continental, Grand Hotel Guayaquil, Hotel Hampton Inn by Hilton, Hilton Colon, Howard Johnson, Oro Verde, Hotel Palace, Hotel Ramada, Hotel Sheraton, and Unipark Hotel.

Cristina Guerrero de Miranda, Executive Director of the Quito Visitors’ Bureau (Empresa Metropolitana Quito Turismo) said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Cuenca and Guayaquil in this extremely successful Event, and be providing an effective and efficient opportunity for these Tour Operators/Buyers and Travel Agents to actually see and experience everything that Ecuador has to offer.”

The Cuenca Visitors’ Bureau (Fundación Municipal Turismo of Cuenca), Gladys Eljuri de Alvarez, Executive Director said: “This Event is a wonderful example of how Cuenca can work with our Quito and Guayaquil colleagues to host this very important event. We know that the Tour Operators/ Buyers, and Travel Agents will be delighted and excited to see and experience Cuenca.”

Andre Barona, Executive Vice-President of the Guayas Tourism Chamber of Commerce added: “The Guayaquil Tourism Industry is pleased to be a part of this nationwide Ecuadorian promotional event, and to have the opportunity to show these important Travel Industry Professional all of the exciting changes that Guayaquil continues to make to our exciting and growing destination.”

Irma Coleman, President & CEO of William H. Coleman, Inc. said: “We are very excited about the number of Buyers, Travel Agents, and Suppliers that will be attending this ‘See Ecuador’ Event. Travel Industry interest in Ecuador to participate in this unique ‘three (3) city event’ was very positive, and registration was ‘sold out.’ We believe Buyers and Travel Agents will return to their offices with the product knowledge and contacts that will help them aggressively promote all of Ecuador’s destinations to their clients as an exciting and affordable destination in this challenging economic environment.”

“See Ecuador” is organized by William H. Coleman, Inc. an international Event Management Firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, with offices in London and Toronto.

For additional information and on-line registration please access the links via this website. For any questions, please contact William H. Coleman, Inc., Sales Department, at Email: sales@whcoleman.com  or Phone: 904-398-6777 / 800-874-2324 (USA and Canada), EXT 8025 or 8022.

The 3rd annual See Ecuador is scheduled for May 2010 and details will be available soon!

 

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