For the first time, the organization decided to host the Workshop in February and invited national tour operators, travel agents, and hoteliers, among other businesspeople in the tourism sector, specially designed for religious tourism.
Hosted Buyers
As for the third edition of the Workshop, the organization invited outgoing operators with significant operations in the context of religious tourism coming from consolidated and emerging markets:
Country of origin | Nº of buyers |
Germany | 2 |
Argentina | 3 |
Belgium | 1 |
Bolivia | 2 |
Brazil | 12 |
Canada | 2 |
Colombia | 10 |
The United States | 4 |
Philippines | 3 |
France | 1 |
Guatemala | 2 |
Hungary | 1 |
Indonesia | 5 |
Israel | 5 |
Italy | 4 |
Malta | 2 |
Poland | 12 |
Sri Lanka | 2 |
Sweden | 1 |
The United Kingdom | 2 |
Uruguay | 2 |
Vietnam | 2 |
Total | 80 |
National trade participants
There were 64 companies present in the workshop, coming from different activity sectors with activities within religious tourism:
Activity | Nº of entities | Nº of partakers |
DMC / AV / TO | 23 | 35 |
Hotels | 31 | 50 |
Institutional | 7 | 8 |
Museum | 3 | 3 |
Total | 64 | 96 |