| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay | October 2008 
Upcoming PV Cultural and Sporting Events
 PVNN
Puerto Vallarta hosts a series of cultural festivals and sports tournaments year-round that are a magnet for numerous visitors. Some of the highlights of the destination's upcoming calendar of events include:
14th International Gourmet Festival
 Puerto Vallarta's 14th Annual Festival Gourmet International, celebrating the culinary arts, will be held November 13 to 23, 2008. Resident chefs from Puerto Vallarta's finest restaurants and hotels will team up with talented guest chefs to offer special tasting menus, cooking classes and demonstrations, and wine, cheese and tequila tasting events.
Puerto Vallarta's Festival Gourmet International was brought to life 14 years ago as the first event of its kind in Mexico, and has remained a benchmark for all similar festivals that followed.
The festival will kick-off November 13, 2008 with a "Grand Gourmet Opening Dinner." In addition to the traditional events that include the impressive Sunday brunch buffet, cooking demonstrations, wine tasting, cheeses of the world, and the Chefs tables and Winemaker dinners, new events will enrich this year's festival and raise funds for charities, such as the "Chef's Corrida Theater" cookoff, and the "Spaghettata." For more information, visit FestivalGourmet.com.
Vallarta Golf Cup
 The seventh edition of the Vallarta Golf Cup will take place November 16-17, 2008, in some of the most challenging golf courses in the Puerto Vallarta area: the Tom Weiskopf designed Vista Vallarta in Puerto Vallarta and El Tigre in Nuevo Vallarta. Each twosome will play at 80% handicap.
The Vallarta Golf Cup is Puerto Vallarta's signature golf tournament attracting golfers from Mexico, the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For the first time since its inception, the 2008 edition of the Vallarta Golf Cup will be aired on the Golf Channel. The Vallarta Golf Cup has also been included in the Infogolf América tour, regrouping 32 tournaments throughout the Americas in one year. For more information, visit VallartaGolf.com.
53rd International Fishing Tournament
 The 53rd Annual Sailfish and Marlin Tournament organized by the Club de Pesca de Puerto Vallarta (Puerto Vallarta Fishing Club) will be held from November 12 - 15, 2008. A Puerto Vallarta tradition for over 50 years, and one of the most traditional fishing tournaments in Mexico, the Sailfish and Marlin Tournament brings together the most passionate group of fishermen for three exciting days of fishing in some of Mexico's finest waters.
Prizes this year will exceed US $300,000 and will be divided amongst the following categories: Sailfish, Marlin, Tuna, and Dorado. Moreover, the Tuna, Marlin and sailfish Fishing One will have a millionaire prizes that will be offered for breaking the record of the heaviest sailfish at 155.65 pounds as well as the heaviest marlin at 710.55 pounds. For more information, visit FishVallarta.com.
Restaurant Week 2009
Puerto Vallarta & Vallarta Lifestyles will present the fifth annual Restaurant Week, May 15-31, 2009. Exceptional three-course menus will be offered at participating restaurants, amongst some of Puerto Vallarta's finest, with prices reduced up to 50% off the regular menu. For more information, visit VirtualVallarta.com.
Meeting Place México 2009
The 7th edition of Meeting Place Mexico, the specialized trade fair for the meetings, conventions, and incentives industry will be held in Puerto Vallarta June 7-9, 2009. Over 100 exhibitors including airlines, hotels, tour operators, incentives houses, CVB's, etc. will be offering their products and services to over 170 potential buyers that have been invited to attend.
Meeting Place Mexico (mpm) will showcase the best that Puerto Vallarta has to offer in terms of services, infrastructure and services for corporate meetings and conventions to Mexican and international buyers. Meetings and incentive planners as well as decision makers and heads of international business associations will attend the trade show. Meeting Place Mexico is organized by Mundo Editorial, publishers of Convenciones magazine and Avanti Meetings and Incentives and is sponsored by the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Board, the Secretary of Tourism of the State of Jalisco, and the Mexico Tourism Board.
11th International Symposium of Fireworks Puerto Vallarta, México 2009
 For the first time, Puerto Vallarta will host this fireworks extravaganza April 20-24, 2009. The Symposium of Fireworks serves as a main meeting point for pyrotechnics industry members from various disciplines and specialties where they showcase the latest technologies as well as exchange industry experience and ideas.
Various product demonstrations and shows will be organized during the event including traditional fireworks displays evoking Mexican fiestas and folklore presented by Mexican fireworks companies from the states of Mexico, Jalisco, and Tlaxcala, among others. Musical fireworks shows will also be displayed as well as product demonstrations from international companies.
16th Pan American Games 2011
The Pan American Games, held every four years, provide a harmonious environment for athletes from 42 nations from all over the Americas to compete in multidisciplinary sports. The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1951. Guadalajara, Jalisco will be the host city of the 2011 Pan American Games and Puerto Vallarta is honored to co-host the following sports: sailing, open water marathon, and triathlon in addition to some beach volleyball competitions. Additional information available at Guadalajara2011.org.mx.
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