Reed Travel Exhibitions launches LACIME

Reed Travel Exhibitions and Reed Exhibitions Brazil are to organise LACIME - the first Latin America and Caribbean Incentives & Meetings Exhibition.

LACIME aims to provide a great opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean to showcase their destinations and diversified products, including hotels, convention centres, meetings products and specialised services to international visitors. In addition LACIME will provide a forum for international exhibitors to meet buyers of incentive and meetings products and services from all over the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Reed Travel Exhibitions organises a range of travel industry events for trade professionals around the world, incorporating the travel trade, corporate, meetings & incentive sectors, as well as niche tourism products. LACIME will form part of RTE's growing portfolio of leading global exhibitions dedicated to the Meetings & Incentives sector.

LACIME has the support and experience of its sister event EIBTM, internationally known as one of the largest and most important events for the industry, and AIME, the principal event in Asia Pacific for Incentives and Meetings. Together these exhibitions represent the world strength in the Meetings and Incentive industry and LACIME aims to become the premier event for the Latin American & Caribbean region.

"The Latin America and Caribbean sector of the market has grown steadily over the past few years and LACIME will provide the perfect forum for buyers and exhibitors from the region to network and create valuable business opportunities. LACIME will become the EIBTM for Latin America and the Caribbean," enthused Tom Nutley, Chairman, Reed Travel Exhibitions.

Supported by EMBRATUR, the Tourism Ministry and the Federal Government of Brazil, LACIME will be the perfect event to create new business opportunities, allowing visitors responsible for the planning and organisation of incentive travel and meetings to network with a host of leading suppliers from all sectors of the industry.

Eduardo Sanovicz, Embratur President, said, “LACIME - Latin American & Caribbean Incentive and Meetings Exhibition - is proof of the increasing strength and interest of this part of the globe in influencing the world meetings market business. Brazil is proud to host this great and certainly very successful fair.”

LACIME will take place from Wednesday 23 - Friday 25 June 2004 at the Transamerica Expo Center, Sao Paulo - SP, Brazil.