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Belize present at FCCA Platinum Conference in Curacao

Belize attends the Platinum Associate Membership Advisory Council Conference 2010

Belize City, Belize, June 22nd, 2010—The Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) is conducting its’ 2010 Platinum Associate Membership Advisory Council Conference (PAMAC) in Curaçao and Belize was present.

The PAMAC Conference is a great opportunity for cruise executives from the Caribbean, Florida and Latin America to gather and analyze trends and discuss current issues.  The event provides destination partners with the opportunity to consolidate relationships and to develop successful bilateral partnerships with every sector.

The Belize delegation attended the PAMAC Conference to discuss issues of legislation, ports, safety, security, tourism development and other cruise industry related issues as well. This opportunity also served for Belize to meet with cruise executives and destinations as it accepted and announced that it will be hosting the PAMAC Conference of 2011.

The FCCA is a non -profit trade organization composed of 15 member cruise lines operating more than 100 vessels in Caribbean, Floridian and Latin American waters. The FCCA strives to build cooperative relationships with its partner destinations and to develop productive bilateral partnerships with every sector by developing an understanding of the growing cruise industry and its operating practices. The FCCA works along with governments, ports and all private and public sector representatives to maximize cruise passenger, cruise line and cruise line employee spending, as well as enhancing the destination experience and the amount of cruise passengers returning as stay-over visitors. 

Representing Belize and the BTB in Curaçao were: the Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation & Culture, Hon. Manuel Heredia Jr., from the Board of Directors, Mr. Stanley Longsworth Jr., Mr. Lloyd Enriquez, Registrar of Hotels and Marketing Officer, Michelle Bowers.

For more information on events taking place in Belize’s tourism industry, please contact the Marketing Department at the Belize Tourism Board at 227-2420, via email:  info@travelbelize.org or visit our website www.belizetourism.org.