The year’s CATM10 will take place October 20, in La Antigua (Guatemala), 18.-. The official Web site of the next edition of Centroamerica travel market, which will take place from 18 to 20 October 2010 in Antigua is already available at catmcentralamerica.com. Like in the past editions, the country will offer a selection of pre and post tours. This year Guatemala is visitors travel to the selection, which specialize on following topics: adventure, Caribbean & archaeology, vibrant Mayan culture, leisure activities. Also, some other countries in the region between 21 May and 24 October visits which will offer different tours. The CATA (Central America tourism agency) is planning a new advertising campaign you tourist attractions Central America can be proud of the advertising material. The informative brochure in the magazine titled “Extraordinary voyages” stands out particularly.
Also, the new, high-quality commercials about the cultural, tourist and scenic beauty of the region include to do this. This new promotional material is provided the professionals of the tourism sector. In addition, can the public who is interested in the region and would like to get to know them, find out more. To increase in tourist traffic in Central America the number who took travelers to Central America, compared to the same period in 2009, within the first two months of the year 2010 by 6%. They confirm that preliminary data published by the respective ministries of tourism (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). Overall, the region from January to February 2010, registered 1.515.216 tourists.
It came 151.802 from Europe, which means an increase of 4% to the previous year. Among the Europeans, the Spanish and French travelled the most with an increase of 11% and 8% respectively. The agreement between CATA and nature air on April 23, 2010 signed CATA and the airline nature air from Costa Rica agreement to a one-year collaboration.