On 24th and 25th October, ExpoVino 2013 will be held at the Hotel Real Intercontinental & Club Tower Costa Rica.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
From information published by Expovino Costa Rica:
Expovino Costa Rica is the event where dealers and producers of wine and complementary products, showcase their products and do business with their audience, consisting of both professional buyers as well as wine and culture lovers.
It is an exhibition with wine tastings. The event serves two purposes: to promote wine culture and knowledge about it, by developing business around it.
Expovino 2013 in its fourth edition, is being organized by Revista Apetito, a magazine for the hotels and restaurants sector. This fair is the meeting point par excellence to do business with the world's leading wine distributors in the region.
ExpoVino Costa Rica offers exhibitors the opportunity to:
1. Encourage the development of wine culture.
2. Participate in strategic negotiations with intermediaries in the wine industry (restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, wine bars, liquor).
3. Showcase the most outstanding products to existing and potential consumers.
4. Contribute to a better understanding of the intelligent consumption of wine.
5. Strengthen, renew and create new relationships with existing and potential customers.
Between 2009 and 2013 sales of wine in the country increased by 77%, followed by vodka, which increased by 43%, whiskey 38% and rum 31%.
In 2013 wine came top in terms of import volumes, with a total of 9,256 tons. At the same time, its distribution in bars, restaurants, liquor stores and supermarkets during the same period grew by 32%.
In an event that unites sensual pleasures with sophistication and protocol, wine tasting is a booming industry accompanying the internationalization of Panama City.
Wine Fairs, wine pairing dinners, wine tasting courses, wine clubs, are examples of the interest from importers and distributors in the sector.
Real Hotels & Resorts (RHR) is planning to double in size over the next two years.
The new projects, which should all be completed at the end of the next year, are spread over Central America from San Pedro Sula (Honduras), to the expansion of the Real Quality Hotel (Airport) in El Salvador, to a new project - Club Tower - annexed to the Real InterContinental Hotel in Escazu, San Jose (Costa Rica).
The new Club Tower and Spa, the biggest in the region, are now the main feature in the new image of the Real Inter-Continental Hotel & Club Tower Costa Rica.
Prominent designers contributed to make the new Real Inter-Continental Hotel a site of comfort and pleasure.
The new spa is the biggest in Costa Rica and offers a series of unique services which make visits to the site a unique and exclusive experience.
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