Over 6,000 Business Appointments Already Pre-Scheduled As Global Travel Industry

Executives Arrive for TravelMart LatinAmerica 09 In Patagonia, Chile.

 

(Jacksonville, Florida, USA & Puerto Varas, Chile) As 1,000 Travel Industry Executives from over forty (40) Countries arrive in Patagonia this week to attend the 33rd Annual TravelMart LatinAmerica, they will be planning for over 6,000 business appointments that have already been pre-scheduled for them.  William H. Coleman, Inc., the Event Organizers, use their exclusive “Select-Match” system to enable the “Buyers and Suppliers” who attend the Event to request appointments with each other.  Additional appointments will also be personally scheduled “on-site” by the delegates during the business sessions held at the recently constructed facility at Teatro del Lago.

 

This prestigious tourism business development Event was inaugurated in 1978, and it is returning to Chile for the fourth (4^th) time; 2001 was the last time TravelMart LatinAmerica was held in Santiago.  Last year’s Event was held in Quito, Ecuador.

 

All the TravelMart LatinAmerica 2009 business sessions will be held in a special structure temporarily added to Teatro del Lago in Frutillar.  Delegates will be staying in participating 4 and 5 star Host Hotels throughout the Puerto Varas area, including Hotel Bellavista, Hotel Borde Lago, Hotel Cabanas del Lago, Hotel Enjoy Casino Puerto Varas, Hotel Gran Colonos, Hotel Colonos Del Sur Mirador,  Hotel Cumbres Patagonicas, Hotel Los Alerces, Hotel Melia Patagonia, Hotel Puelche, and Solace Hotel.

 

Special Pre and Post Tours are available so that the delegates who are visiting the Patagonia, Chile  Region for the first time will have the opportunity to personally experience the area’s beauty and tourism potential.

 

Under the leadership of Cornelia Prenzlau, President of TMLA 09 Host Committee Lago Llanquihue, and Ramon Espinoza, Mayor of Frutillar, the private and public sectors of the Travel Industry in Puerto Varas, Fruitillar, and the Patagonia Region, have made significant financial and resource investments to make this year’s TravelMart LatinAmerica a success.  The other TravelMart LatinAmerica Primary Sponsors include:  ABETA – Brazil, Gamboa Tours Panama, Hotel Las Torres Patagonia, Hotel Quito, Ministry of Tourism - Ecuador Tourism Promotion Board, Mountain Lodges of Peru, Oro Verde Hotels, Quito Visitors’ Bureau, and PromPeru.

 

American Airlines, the TravelMart LatinAmerica Official Airline Sponsor, and LAN, the Host Country Airline, are offering special promotional fares for Buyers and Suppliers. 

 

Mrs. Irma Coleman, President & CEO of William H. Coleman, Inc., the TravelMart LatinAmerica organizing company, said: “The high number of pre-scheduled appointments between Buyers and Suppliers indicates how productive this Event is year after year.  We are very gratified that so many Travel Industry professionals continue to place so much confidence in TravelMart LatinAmerica, especially at a time of so much economic uncertainty.” Mrs. Coleman also stated: “We are very pleased to be working with such a wonderful group of Professionals on the Host Committee who are making sure every delegate has an opportunity to experience the Patagonia, Chile Region.”

 

Cormelia Prenzlau, TMLA 09 Host Committee Lago Llanquihue stated:  “We are very pleased to welcome this distinguished group of Travel Industry Professional to our part of the world.  We know many delegates are visiting the Patagonia, Chile Region for the first time, and we are very pleased to show them how much this area has to offer their customers and clients from throughout the world.  The Host Committee is a dedicated group of professionals who have been working very hard for almost two (2) years to make sure this Event is successful, and we are looking forward to welcoming everyone.”

 

TravelMart LatinAmerica is produced and managed by William H. Coleman, Inc., an international events management firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA with offices in Toronto, Canada, and London, England.  Information is available at www.travelmartlatinamerica.com; e mail: sales@whcoleman.com.  TravelMart LatinAmerica 2010 will be held September 22-24, 2010 in Lima, Peru.