Tourism and Transport Minister Ewart Brown is attending a Caribbean Marketplace tourism marketing event in Puerto Rico this week. ?I think it is one of the outstanding opportunities for us as a team to sit down with the people who send people to Bermuda ? the tour operators and travel agents,? Dr. Brown said. ?It will give me the opportunity as Minister to sit down with my colleagues to discuss industry trends.?

The Caribbean Marketplace, which concludes today, was lauded on its website as the most important and productive tourism marketing event in the Caribbean region. ?Most of all it also gives me the opportunity to confirm for prospective hotel developers that Bermuda is back in business in a big way,? he said. The event attracts buyers from the US, Canada, Caribbean, Latin America, Asian/Pacific region, Africa and Europe.