Turisme de Barcelona - новости ноября 2016 года. Present for the first time at Frankfurt Book Fair
For the first time, Turisme de Barcelona took part this year in the Frankfurt Book Fair at a joint stand shared with Barcelona City Council, the Publishers’ Guild and Ramon Llull Institute. Under the logo Barcelona, publishing capital / Catalonia, land of books, the stand acted as an umbrella for institutional representatives and Catalan publishers.
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Turisme de Barcelona’s Information Offices can now attend to the public in 25 languages
Turisme de Barcelona’s network of offices is now able to deal with enquiries in 25 different languages. 130 members of staff, in its 25 offices and at various different mobile information points, attend to a total of 3.4 million people each year, including tourists and local citizens.
2017 looks all set to be a good year for the meeting and congress travel sector, further consolidating Barcelona’s role as the European capital for this kind of tourism. Hundreds of service providers, small businesses and self-employed workers are involved in congresses, conventions and incentive trips.
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A trade mission to China with 12 companies from the city
Together with the Agència Catalana de Turisme (Catalan Tourism Agency), Turisme de Barcelona is organizing a trade mission to China from November 14th to 18th with 12 companies from the city’s tourism sector. The aim of the trip, which will include two workshops in Beijing and Shanghai, is to present Barcelona and Catalonia as destinations to the Asian giant’s leading travel agents.
Dressing up the Columbus Monument for the Festes del Roser
For the first time this year, the Columbus Monument was decorated to take part in the Festes del Roser (the Roses Festivities), held from October 7th to 13th. Turisme de Barcelona asked the city’s School of Floral Art and Landscape Design to decorate the monument, within the framework of a collaboration agreement between the tourism board and the Association of Friends, Neighbours and Tradesmen of La Rambla and Plaza de Cataluña (Amics de la Rambla).
Personal Stories
Barbara Beatrice Lavitola Managing Director of BBLTranslation
"Barcelona attracts increasing numbers of female entrepreneurs from all over the world"
A keen fan of motorbikes, hiking and personal defence, Barbara Beatrice Lavitola has been able to bring her professional and personal dreams to fruition in Barcelona. She first came to the city from Milan eight years ago, finding a similar cosmopolitan atmosphere there to the one she had known in London, where she studied for an M.A. in technical and scientific translation.
