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June 02, 2011

The promotional tour for the U20 World Cup in Colombia will continue on Tuesday in Caracas, where the Colombian entrepreneurs will hold business meetings with their Venezuelan counterparts to promote tourism on the occasion of the sporting event to be held between July 29 and August 20.

The promotional tour for the U20 World Cup in Colombia will continue on Tuesday in Caracas, where the Colombian entrepreneurs will hold business meetings with their Venezuelan counterparts to promote tourism on the occasion of the sporting event to be held between July 29 and August 20.

After a successful day in Quito, with the participation of some 100 wholesalers and travel agents and media, the workshops will continue, including presentations on Colombia as a destination, which will be held in Pestana Caracas Hotel. Some 50 businessmen are expected to attend the meetings.

The event is organized by PROCOLOMBIA with the support of the Tourism Promotion Fund of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, with the participation of the Institute of Culture and Tourism of Manizales, the District Institute of Tourism of Bogota Confamiliares of Manizales; Contacto and Caribe Hotel from Cartagena; Welcome, Panamericana de Viajes and World Tours from Bogota, and Valletours from Cali.

After the presentation in Venezuela, the meetings with tour operators will continue in Sao Paulo (Brazil) on June 1, which will also include a delegation of the Barranquilla Carnival, led by 2011 Beauty Pageant Winner –Carnival’s ‘Queen’- Marcela Davila Marquez, to invite Cariocas to follow her team to Barranquilla, the ‘capital of the Atlantic’, the city to host the Brazilian team in the Under-20 World Cup.

In Sao Paulo, there will also be a day of football-tennis hosted by Colombian goalkeeper Oscar Cordoba who joined the PROCOLOMBIA campaign to promote Colombia’s tourism. The event will be held at the Inter Hotel.

The tour will conclude on June 3 in Buenos Aires. The promotion there will focus on Medellin, the city selected to host the Argentinian team. In the Argentinian capital, Oscar Cordoba will also challenge soccer fans to beat him at football-tennis. The event will be held at the 725 Continental Hotel.

The workshops began last week in Mexico and also took place in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama.