More than 500 attendees will be present at the National Meeting Tourism Congress in

Los Cabos from today until August 23, and hosting the twenty-sixth National Congress for Meetings Tourism.

More than 500 people related to the Meetings Tourism industry and from all regions of the country are expected to be in attendance:

"In the twenty-sixth national congress of the meetings industry, 500 congressmen will come plus special guests, in short, approximately 550 people who are going to discuss, that we are going to work on training, development, business, and most importantly public policies, we are going To work with the federal secretary of tourism, we will work with the tourism commission of the Chamber of Deputies and of course with the State through its Secretary of Economic Development, Tourism and Sustainability with Luis Humberto Araiza and of course with  Rodrigo Esponda and FITURCA "said Jaime Salazar Figueroa, President of the Mexican Council of the Meeting Industry.

He also mentioned that Los Cabos thanks to its hotel infrastructure, its Convention Center, among other aspects, it is ideal for the realization of such events:

"Los Cabos is an ideal destination for the meetings industry in terms of hotel infrastructure, transportation, services, gastronomy, etc., in order to receive congress, conventions, commercial exhibitions, including those of international standing.

The edition done to  the Los Cabos Convention Center already full after  long time of abandonment, now makes Los Cabos fabulous for commercial exhibitions of type B2C, B2B to receiving  world-class congresses, in short Los Cabos is now  ready to be the # 1 destination in the country for the meetings industry. "

Rodrigo Esponda head of FITURCA said that these kinds of events provide important projection for Los Cabos:

"This is the National Congress of the Industry of Meetings the most important event that we will have in the year for the quality of the assistants that attend, they are the main organizers nationwide, they’re the companies that manage congresses, conventions, expos and incentives at the national level and therefore this gives a projection to the destination of the facilities that we have, of the new hotel facilities, of the hospitality and quality that the destination  offers to receive this  kind  of programs in the future ".

It was announced that last year 310 thousand meetings were held in the country, including exhibitions, congresses, conventions and incentive trips, so it’s imperative to have an increasingly growing participation in that market.

"On average, 30.3 million rooms were used by the meetings industry in 2018 throughout the country and generated a spill in round numbers of just over 22.4 billion pesos," said Jaime Salazar.

He also said Los Cabos is so important for tourism, that the Federal secretary of the branch, Miguel Torruco, of Tourism and Sustainable and Economic Development of Baja California Sur Luis Humberto Araiza and the president of the Commission have already confirmed their presence to the event of Tourism of the Chamber of Deputies, Luis Alegre.

The Congress will be held over the next three days at the International Convention Center of Los Cabos and has among its objectives to publicize new tourism products specialized in the meetings industry, as well as support the development of productive chains, business links through networking, as well as the training and professionalization of tourism service providers.

Translation by Tony Perez Dillon