Tag Archives: Portugal

Wine Tourism Fam Trip: Grape Escape Portugal

Familiarization Trips (Fam Trips, for short) for Tour Operators and Travel Agents are common practice for the travel industry. For the tourism provider it is probably by far the most cost-effective marketing tool they can invest in to gain greater market share and sales. The provider is able to appeal to the Agent’s five senses [...]
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What´s Wine Tourism to You Contest

The International Wine Tourism Conference to be held in Porto, Portugal Janury 31-February 6 announces the launch of the What´s Wine Tourism to You Contest! Participants have the chance to win 2 free tickets to the 3 day International Wine Tourism Conference and participate in all After Conference wine tastings and activities.  To be eligable to [...]
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WINE PLEASURES ANNOUNCES JAM-PACKED PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

All plans are in place for the exciting two-day event leading up to The 2011 International Wine Tourism Conference    Barcelona, Spain – July 20, 2010 – Wine Pleasures has announced a busy line up of winery visits, tastings, and dinners to take place during the two-day Pre-Conference Event preceding the 3rd Annual International Wine Tourism Conference [...]
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Wine Pleasures will bring together wine & travel professionals from around the world for a grape escape in Portugal

The 2011 International Wine Tourism Conference promises to bring guests a memorable experience filled with networking opportunities while discovering the flavors of Portugal Barcelona, Spain – July 1, 2010 – Wine Pleasures has announced that the 3rd Annual International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop will take place from January 30 to February 6 on the banks [...]
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Bloggers to Replace Travel Agents?

Familiarization Trips (Fam Trips, for short) for Tour Operators and Travel Agents are common practice for the travel industry. For the tourism provider it is probably by far the most cost-effective marketing tool they can invest in to gain greater market share and sales. The provider is able to appeal to [...]
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DIY Wine Travel – Winelands Of Portugal

Continuing with the publication of the 2nd Annual International Wine Tourism Conference Speaker Notes, we are pleased to publish the talk given by Susanna Tocca of DOC-DMC  which participants  found enlightening and usefil. The talk as per conference programme was titled: Winelands of Portugal – [...]
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Grape Escape Portugal: 7th Annual Wine Pleasures FAM Trip & Workshop

On January 31st, 2011 over 200 wine tourism professionals from around the world will descend on one of the Great Wine Capitals of the World, Porto, Portugal for the Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop which will be held over four days at the Pousada do Porto, Palacio do Freixo. The Wine Tourism [...]
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Celebrity Desirée Anderson Enhances Spanish Wine Exposure Worldwide

This year’s Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference, held close to Barcelona, Spain brought together more than 200 wine, tourism and wine tourism professionals from around the world. Many of the over 40 talks at the Conference touched on or specifically focused on the importance of having a blog and implementing social media tools to [...]
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Porto to Host 2011 Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop

Wine Pleasures is pleased to announce that the 3rd annual edition of the Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop will be held from 31st January – 3rd February 2011 in Porto, Portugal. This year’s Conference & Workshop saw over 200 wine tourism professionals from around the world descend on the little know Catalan village [...]
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Live Blogging Plenary session by João Falcão (VINITUR)

Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal. Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal Portugal is a largely undiscovered treasure-trove for wine & food lovers: 35 winemaking regions and 11 wine routes, from North to South, the oldest demarcated and controlled winemaking region in the world, and the Douro Winemaking Region, home of Port Wine since 1756. It encompasses an admirable [...]
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