The center of Grenada's Grand Etang National Park is a vast lake in the crater of an extinct volcano.
The tourism of meetings, incentives, congresses and exhibitions (MICE) increases its impact worldwide, as announced in Santo Domingo, Santiago Gonzalez, regional director of the International Association of Congresses and Conventions (ICCA) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gonzalez acknowledged that this segment maintains a direct impact worldwide to 1.5 billion participants, moves 1.07 trillion dollars in expenses (business sales) and generates about 10.3 million jobs.
These figures were revealed during a conference entitled Latest Trends in the Business Industry, aimed at hotel representatives, DMC (Agencias Turisticas Integradoras Locales, in Spanish), convention organizers and the public sector.
It also revealed that in business sales the meetings industry moves 2.53 trillion dollars and generates 25.9 million jobs.
The meeting was held at the Sheraton Hotel, under the auspices of the Santo Domingo Hotels Association (AHSD), an entity that promotes business tourism, incentives, congresses and exhibitions to turn the Dominican Republic's capital into a tourist reference for events and conventions.
The center of Grenada's Grand Etang National Park is a vast lake in the crater of an extinct volcano.
