POINT BLANCHE:--- There is less than two weeks left to register using the early bird discount for St. Maarten/St. Martin businesses to have a booth at the 21st Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Conference & Trade Show from October 6-10.
Booth prices will increase roughly 20 per cent in September, so the time is now to register as soon as possible to increase your odds of getting your preferred one-on-one meetings. These meetings are first come, first served, and requests will be sent based on the time of registration.
Registration can be done at the following address: https://www.regonline.com/fccastmaarten
The conference and trade show will attract to the destination more than 1000 cruise industry partners, including close to 100 cruise executives during the October one week period.
The focus of the conference is on developing business, relationships and knowledge during the event's four-day series meetings, workshops and social functions, and one of the best occasions for this is during the numerous one-on-one meetings.
Attendees have up to three meetings with their selected cruise executives, who represent the various departments of their cruise line(s), including operations, purchasing, marketing, shore excursions and government relations.
Each one-on-one meeting allots 15 minutes for attendees to privately discuss with and receive personalized input from a cruise executive that can positively impact their business in many ways – from selling a product or shore excursion on-board or increasing ship calls to tailor-making an excursion/product or developing infrastructure that the cruise lines and destinations need.
For cruise executives, ports and destinations, cruise and tourism agencies, attractions, ship agents, suppliers and tour operators, the annual FCCA Cruise Conference & Trade Show is the premier industry event of the year to meet key industry players, analyse trends and discuss current issues.
Construction and set-up is currently taking place at the Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise & Cargo facility of a convention center that will host the FCCA Conference & Trade Show.
The Convention Center is being constructed on harbour property that was used as a container storage area.
Four buildings will be erected during the course of several weeks that will be used by approximately 1200 delegates who will be attending the conference in October.
