IHRA #31: Profit Partnership Meeting to be held alongside CHA Investment Conference

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Profit Partnership Meeting to be held alongside CHA Investment Conference

Calling all investors! CHA, the Caribbean Hotel Association, invites you to the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Conference and the PROƒIT Partnership Meeting to be held in Barbados, 9 - 11 May. This is a forum for bringing together business partners from the EU and third countries to promote investment in and development of the tourism sector in the ACP Caribbean. Don't miss it!

Please join us at the 9th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Conference ("the Conference") and PROƒIT Partnership Meeting ("the Profit Meeting") to be held at The Sherbourne Conference Centre, Barbados on the 9th - 11th May 2005.

If the Caribbean is a World regional market that your company is interested in strategically, we strongly recommend that you give serious consideration to attend.

The Caribbean is now becoming a strong emerging market :
- real growth in travel & tourism GDP estimated at 14.9% for 2004;
- annual real growth forecast at 4.4% per annum over next 10 years;
- capital investment estimated at US$ 7billion in 2004;
- considered the most tourism intensive region in the World representing circa 15% of total GDP;
- Strategic Plan for Caribbean Tourism commissioned in 2002; and
- development finance now available from both Regional and European sources

The Conference is THE number one meeting place in the Caribbean that brings together leading public and private sector executives, dignitaries and investors in the hospitality and tourism industries to discover important trends, to network with colleagues and to create new investment opportunities. The Profit Meeting brings together Caribbean and global companies and investors to discuss investment opportunities in this emerging market and negotiate partnership agreements. Registered Profit Meeting delegates can request pre-scheduled one on one appointments with fellow Profit Meeting attendees and representatives of current and potential investment opportunities.

This year's Conference and Profit Meeting have been designed to develop further the strong balance of information gathering, understanding investment opportunities and relationship developing that was achieved by last year's events.

The key areas in which we believe both events should add strong value are:

Networking: The Caribbean networking forum to meet potential partners and sponsors with many opportunities for one to one meetings;

Investment Opportunities: See first hand today's and tomorrow's investment opportunities by participating in the Profit Meeting;

Transaction Know-how: Understand the critical path to a successful transaction and how to identify and deal with potential transaction related hurdles;

Marketing: An outstanding opportunity to widen the market's knowledge of your business and your strategic plans for the Caribbean; and

Funding opportunities: Learn about EU related grants available to support investment initiatives.

For details on the Conference and the Profit Meeting programme and the speakers as well as a registration form, go to: www.caribbeaninvestment.org.

Interested UK delegates, investors or partners should contact Calum Nicol or Krisztina Kvassay-Norfolk at Horwath Hospitality & Leisure Limited, 1 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BW telephone number 0208 938 6355, email kkvassay@horwathhl.com.

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