Discover America held a breakfast seminar, and as “Destination of the Year”, Czech Tourism conducted a lunch seminar.
Discover America conducted a well attended breakfast seminar, mostly related to the 200 years anniversary of Norwegian immigration to North America. With the Norwegian Emigrant Museum located in Hamar, there will be several activities, including an anniversary sailing with the world`s oldest paddle steamer Skibladner. On 4th of July, also being the date when the first ship left Stavanger, Discover America and partners shall organize a special event.
According to Avinor, the direct flights to USA is only two for the moments, and although there are a lot of one stop flights, the number of direct flights is expected to increase in the years to come.
The lunch seminar organized by Czech Tourism and their partners, was also well attended and got high marks for being entertaining and interactive, also being very informative about Czech Republic as a destination. Being “Destination of the Year”, Czech Republic had a large and interesting delegation, consisting of DMC´s, regional tourist offices, hotel companies and various attractions. For those attending the seminar, it brought the focus to several destinations, some of them less known in the market.
As part of the interactive seminar, there was a quiz (Kahoot) with some nice prize for the winner, and with some taste of Czech Republic for everyone.