On a day filled with emotions and nature, the VI Hiking Route “El Paraíso de Brovales” took place on January 21st in Brovales, Badajoz. This wonderful event, organized by El Paraíso de Brovales – Rural Accommodation, has been recognized as the best private hiking initiative in Extremadura.

One of the highlights was the presentation of the prestigious “Paraíso de Brovales” Route Award to Vicente Pozas. This recognition, granted by the Tourism Complex, was presented by the Mayor of Jerez de los Caballeros, Raúl Gordillo, in a ceremony attended by more than 1200 people.

The VI Hiking Route not only provided an unforgettable hiking experience in nature but also offered dozens of gifts and surprises to the participants. All attendees came together for this event, solidifying it as a memorable day in the rural world of Extremadura.

The Extremadura Tourism Cluster celebrates the incorporation of the company “Montijo Tour” as a new partner. Cluster members benefit from the collaboration of the sector in our region to be able to take part in projects, information on technology and innovation and exclusive services.

Montijo Tour is a retail travel agency, both inbound and outbound, run by Elvira Prieto Molano. It has been open to the public for twenty-two years, based in Montijo, Badajoz. Its commercial activity focuses on selling and organising all kinds of trips and tourist services aimed at the end public. Since its foundation, they have been working as a travel agency, but since 2021, they started to offer incoming services in Extremadura.

They work with all types of public, always giving the best quality in their services. They are not characterised by being an agency that is sought after for price, but their strong points are focused on personalised attention and an exclusive and different packaging.

A dynamic company, always in a process of change and adaptation, in fact, they are currently transforming their brand image to transmit dynamism, digitalisation, freshness and power of attraction as a company in the tourism sector in Extremadura.

Likewise, they carry out commercial activities outside Spain in different territories such as Portugal, Latin America, Asia, Europe, depending on the requirements of their clients. These activities consist of contracts with international incoming agencies, netwroking with international companies, projects, advertising, website for Portuguese public, among others.

The Gala includes the presentation of awards and recognition to different companies and entities of the territory.

On Friday 17 November 2023, at 8 pm, the Hotel Doña Mafalda de Castilla in Plasencia will host the VI Edition of the Red Empresarial Gala.

At this ceremony, the Extremadura Tourism Cluster will award the Tourism Business Improvement Award to Vicente Pozas Mirón, a journalist specialising in tourism, blogger and nature photographer.

Vicente Pozas currently works at Onda Cero Radio Extremadura, where he is the director of the tourism programme Gente Viajera por Extremadura; he is also CEO of the company VP Comunicación Turística, editor-in-chief of the tourism magazine Destino Extremadura, author and head of the hiking blog Andando Extremadura, and scriptwriter of tourism audiovisuals.

As far as his experience is concerned, he has been working in radio for 36 years, 22 of them doing the programme Gente Viajera, and 16 editing the magazine Destino

Extremadura magazine. He has also been president of the La Vereína Hiking Club, and is currently vice-president of the GR100 Hiking and Mountain Club. He is also an expert in the design and layout of hiking routes, a low and medium mountain guide, and an organiser of hiking routes and treks.

His professional achievements also include the following: more than 200 hiking routes commented, signposted and photographed in the blog andandoextremadura.com; several collective photography exhibitions; author of the series ‘Cáceres pueblo a pueblo’ (Periódico Extremadura, 2004-2005); and numerous articles on tourism and hiking in the specialised press.

About the Business Network Project

This project aims to develop and grow the business fabric of the Province of Cáceres through the organisation of an event that brings together a large number of companies in the area. It is developed with the aim of increasing their sphere of contacts and finding business opportunities.

Yesterday, 24th October, the Cultivating Employment Extremadura Fair, organised by Acción contra el Hambre, was held at the San Francisco Cultural Complex in Cáceres, with the aim of supporting people in the process of actively seeking employment in our region.
The Extremadura Tourism Cluster attended, once again, in collaboration with CETEX, the Confederación Empresarial de Hostelería y Turismo de Extremadura.
The programme of the event included a round table on Challenges and trends in employment and entrepreneurship in Extremadura, a round table on Social innovation for employment, a dynamic of reactivation between participants and companies, a job fair and an Incubator for entrepreneurship.

Cluster del Turismo de Extremadura Tourism Cluster is a Supporting Partner of this summit.

Tourism Innovation Global Summit 2023 –TIS 2023– is the place where tourism leaders from around the world will come together to expose the daily challenges of tourism, solutions and innovative case studies that help the travel and tourism sector. Multiple activities will take place, with more than 400 speakers in 6 auditoriums; there will also be Vertical Forums, C-Suite agendas, or a Festival for Start Ups, among others.

This year, TIS 2023 promises to be a game changer, with a brand-new pavilion with more than 200 exhibiting companies showcasing their latest innovations and technologies to take tourism businesses and destinations to the next level. Along with more than 400 international experts who will participate in the World Tourism Innovation Summit to share success stories, strategies, and trends to embrace the travel revolution we are living.

The topics to be covered in this edition are multiple, among them are: AI for travel; Chat GPT; strategy; Trust; Business Intelligence; Digital Experiences; Tourism Tech Innovation; Metaverse; Cybersecurity; Loyalty Programs; Digital Marketing; Resilience; Consumer Behaviour; Travel Tracker; Contactless; Sustainability; Agenda 2030; LGTBQ+; Data Analytic.

We encourage you to attend this leading event for the travel and tourism industry, where innovation lights up, and possibilities know no boundaries.

Link to the official website: https://www.tisglobalsummit.com/

Today, 7th August, we have held a meeting with the selected companies of the European project CulTourData in “El Círculo”, headquarters of the Red Circular Fab of the Diputación de Cáceres.

Members of the 10 selected SMEs have attended, in person and online, with the aim of taking the next steps in the implementation of the project, and begin to develop the activities planned for each one.

The CulTourData project is funded by the COSME (Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) programme of the European Commission. The main objective is to support European Cities of Culture (ECoC) to achieve a sustainable growth of cultural tourism, through collaboration with cultural and creative industries, and innovation based on data and digitisation.

We thank the attendees for their participation, and Maribel Orjuela, director of dynamisation of El Círculo for giving us this space.

The offer includes training to increase skills and competencies with extensive knowledge transfer and matchmaking events for cooperation accompanied by an exchange of best practices and mentoring support.
These capacity-building activities will enable the company to implement new practices in its businesses.

The enterprise will be supported with €7,000 if it will be selected to be one of the beneficiaries of Tourism 4.0.

The call is aimed at a small or medium-sized enterprise located in one of the 5 countries such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Malta, and Croatia from one of the following categories:

• Hotels and similar accommodations
• Holidays and another type of accommodation for short stays
• Travel agencies, tour operators, booking services, and related businesses

Call for selection of tourism SMEs

Are you a tourism company investing in the future?
Do you want to combine the potential of data and the opportunities of the European Capitals of Culture and advance with us innovative solutions for your business?
Would you like to use up to € 7.000,00 of funding to embark on the path towards these solutions?
Have you already given us the nod three times? That’s perfect. Then we are your partner and CulTourData is the ideal project for your goals.
An Open Lab of the European Project CulTourData, aimed at cultural and creative industries, technology developers and tourism SMEs, will take place on 20 December.
Organised by the Extremadura Tourism Cluster, it will take place in the Incubator Room of Garage 2.0, in Cáceres.

Link to registration by clicking here

25 places available

Adestic (Clúster de Empresas Innovadoras para el Turismo de la Comunidad Valenciana), in collaboration with Turisme Generalitat Valenciana has organised and hosted this event.

The aim of the event, divided into two days, is to reflect on the role that technological development and tourism digitalisation companies should play in the whole process of digital transformation that has begun and accelerated after Covid-19, together with the arrival of the European Union’s Next Generation Funds, with more than 3,900 million euros for tourism. An investment that implies “a historic opportunity to change the Spanish tourism model, which is heavily dependent on factors such as price, seasonality and lack of product diversification”, according to Adestic

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