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The Irish city hosts the Holiday World exhibition will run from this Friday until January 30

the interest of this initiative is based on the importance of Irish issuer meadow Canary Islands, despite being one of the hardest hit by the crisis. Not surprisingly, in 2009 was the fourth largest emitter to the Canaries after UK, Germany and the Peninsula

The Deputy Ministry of Tourism, Government of the Canary Islands, through the public company Promoter, participates in the tourism fair Holiday World which is held this Friday, January 28, and until the 30th, in the Irish city of Dublin.

As part of this event promotes the widespread Canary archipelago’s tourism. The exhibition space covers sixty square meters, reflecting the archipelago’s tourism offer different proposals to attract the Irish Travelers to the Canary Islands. Furthermore, within the exhibition space, there are several tourist information desks and wing zone for meetings.

Irish tourists visiting the Canary state that the main reason for choosing the islands as a destination for your vacation is to enjoy the weather and sun. Also, show that attach great importance to value for money, the possibility of shopping, and leisure activities, especially the entertainment at night.

Holiday World is tourism fair in general offer open to the public. This event will reflect the interests of the Irish market tourism, as well as international tourism aimed at tourists from this source. The event brought in last edition of 2010 to 50,900 visitors, 1,900 professionals and 670 exhibitors.

The fair offers tourist alternatives tailored to different income levels and leisure time preferences. Moreover, today Thursday, January 27, the day before the start of the show takes place awards Irish Travel Industry Awards, awarded by the ITAA (Irish Travel Agents Association).

Vera Cruz is projected as an international tourist destination and will appear in the list of major players of great tourism thanks to agreements and conventions that the Government has established with foreign firms in the industry and by the next meeting of the National Tourism Service Exporters (Contexture), and the writers’ “Hay Festival.”

According to the Secretary of Tourism, Culture and Cinematography, Parlance Leticia Nunez, after the celebrations of the Candelabra, on February 11 in the city of Vera Cruz will be held the annual convention of the Contexture an organization that brings together the most prominent promoters Mexico tourist services and the world.

The convention of the Council will integrate permanently the state as a tourist destination of various circuits marketed by members of the association, and start together a promotional campaign consisting of travel incentives and improving prices.

Accompanied by members of the hotel associations in the state of Vera Cruz, Parlance Nunez reported that as part of the achievements of the working trip to Madrid, Spain, also emphasizes the completion of the meeting of literature “Hay Festival”, an international event that brings together writers, filmmakers, musicians and artists from around the world and 20 years promoting the exchange of ideas across cultural and economic barriers, making reference to the intellectual community.

The “Hay Festival” has been held in cities in Great Britain, India, Spain, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico, in the city of Zapatistas, this year’s event will be held in Vera Cruz from six to 9 October.

Another of the agreements reached by the Secretariat during the International Tourism Fair, Fit 2011, was with the company ADV Via gems, wholesale tour operator and market leader in travel to Mexico, with whom we conduct a promotional campaign through line catalogs and travel agencies interested in incorporating Vera Cruz among major Mexican tourist destinations.

The island is just definitely being included as a dining destination for the association Taste Spain, news that was released yesterday in Madrid during the International Tourism Fair (FITUR). The first vice president and chief Cabled Insular de Truism, José Manuel Bermudez, notes that “this achievement has been possible thanks to the efforts we have made since the Plan of Food, Tourism Tenerife dependent, can benefit the whole island sector , among which are agriculture and livestock, rural accommodation, wineries, hotels, restaurants, etc.. “

The head of Tenerife Tourism adds that “the island and is situated between the leading destinations of Spain in the field of gastronomy, with the benefits this will also from a promotional point of view, which contribute to furthering the objectives of the Plan Food, passing through the empowerment of our kitchen as a tourist attraction, for which the cooperation and involvement of the sector will be critical.”

The process of incorporation of the island at this prestigious club product began months after the request made by Truism de Tenerife. During this period, the technicians in charge of the Food Plan developed access memory with a full action plan comprising all aspects of island cuisine.

Taste Spain is an organization created in 2009 by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Spain, and is composed of four institutions nationally and internationally: the Spanish Federation of Hoteliers (Fear), the Spanish Association of Destination Promotion Gastronomic tourism, Euro-Toques, which is the European Organization for Cooks composed of the most prestigious chefs, and the Association of Pastry Chefs and Spain (Facile). This is the first national with an international platform to promote tourism and gastronomy.

All those involved in Taste Spain working for common goals, among which tourism products converting dining experiences, expanding the concept of “culinary tourism” and work the concept of “authentic Spanish food culture, linking the territory, expanding content and add value with respect to the current proposals, to incorporate new uses for the primary sector, linking the service sector (tourism), and enhance the promotion and marketing of more ambitious and innovative, identifying and capturing new markets.

The company Canary Detour GNSS Solutions, which markets since late 2010 an innovative intelligent virtual Video Guide audiovisual content based on geo-referenced with GPS Smart phone introduced in FITUR, its new application of augmented reality (AR) incorporated into Smart our video guide as a new information service and assistance to visitors.

This new technology is to define a vision of a direct or indirect physical environment in the real world; the elements are combined with virtual elements to create a real-time mixed reality.

The application will assist and guide tourists during their visit to the destination, which can be accessed easily and intuitively to relevant information and updates. From routes and points of cultural and tourist interests, to information on dining, shopping and entertainment most prominent, and transport services, healthcare, or official tourist information points, among others.

In the words of Eduardo Gonzalez, Managing Director said, “Smart our incorporate this new functionality to your system video guide Smart phones with integrated GPS, which allow users to access information of interest using augmented reality as an innovative viewing of this information. Using the camera and compass built into the terminal, the application facilitates the 2D projection on the Smart phone screen, objects of cultural and tourist interests geo-referenced in the system by its latitude and longitude. In addition, the display shows the user the distance that each point is of interest, using an innovative system developed to avoid visual overlap of points in the same direction or close together. “

This new technology, born in the Canary Islands since late last year in this region offers its first virtual tour for Smart phones, aims to position itself as a highly innovative reference to cultural and tourist promotion of any destination.

At present, smart our addresses an expansion plan based on the creation of a network of business partners and franchisees in order to expand coverage and services to other destinations in any region of Spain, closing to do partnerships with organizations that promote tourism and culture, as well as private operators in these sectors.