South American Tourist Board

[Mike Cotton]

Does anyone know if there is any one single body that represents the whole of South America acting as a tourist board for the region?

 

Cheers

 

Mike

[Mark Chesnut]

I specialize in writing about travel to Latin America, and I've never heard of one organization that serves specifically just South America -- Asia has that with PATA, but I don't think Latin America has an overarching organization for everyone.
For individual countries, one resource I use (if my Google searches and contacts don't work) is http://www.towd.com/, the Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory.

[Kat Morgenstern]

What about LATA http://www.lata.org/ ?


Mark Chesnut said:

I specialize in writing about travel to Latin America, and I've never heard of one organization that serves specifically just South America -- Asia has that with PATA, but I don't think Latin America has an overarching organization for everyone.
For individual countries, one resource I use (if my Google searches and contacts don't work) is http://www.towd.com/, the Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory.

[Elyse Glickman]

I am not sure, but if you are interested in Argentina, Violeta Horne, based in Miami, is wonderful and so accomodating. Argentina does not do FAM trips often, but six months after I wrote an informal letter querying about the possibility, she kept me on her radar and called me when things did come up. She was also great about addressing the unique needs of my different outlets--culinary press, Jewish press and so forth.

Also, if you are interested in Rio, that is handled by Joao Rodrigues of Myriad who is from the area and is also fantastic to work with and travel with.

[Mike Cotton]

Lovely cheers guys, I remeber coming across LATA in my many searches and then completely forgot about them.

[Carla Marie Rupp]

I once went to a tourism marketplace in Lima a number of years ago. I wonder if it was connected to the lata?

Mike Cotton said:

Lovely cheers guys, I remeber coming across LATA in my many searches and then completely forgot about them.