The Wine Pleasures Wine Tourism Conference (Sitges, 24 – 26 January 2009) is shaping up nicely. Speaker proposals already received and approved include:

• Blogging as a new marketing tool for a winery – Oscar Quevedo (Quevedo Estates, Portugal)
• Organic Viticulture in the Comunidad Valenciana – Pedro Calabuig(Pequeñas Bodegas de Levante, Spain)
• Selected Wineries. An innovative approach for the Portuguese Market – Ricardo Gomes (Selected Wineries, Portugal)
• El Impulso del enoturismo en el Priorat – David Esteller (Plan Fomento Turismo Priorat)
• Historia de un ambicioso proyecto de Enoturismo en la Comunidad Valenciana – Fabrizio Pegoraro (Vicente Gandia Plá, Spain)
• Enoturismo con los cinco sentidos – Glòria Vallès (Can Bonastre Wine Resort)
• Wine Marketing With YouTube and Video Marketing – Lasse Rouhiainen (MarketingConVideo.com)
• Organic or “Green” wines and their Producers-Eco Tourism in the Wine World” – Paul Chartrand (Chartrand Imports USA)
• Social Media and The Internet as tools for Wine Tourism – Ryan Opaz (Catavino Internet Marketing, USA)
• Una Visita bodegas familiar – Bernadette Miquel (J. Miquel Jané, Spain)

and many more. Hope you like the taster! Deadline to receive speaker proposals is 15 November and we are looking to have the full conference programme of around 40 seminars ready for 25 November – watch this space and/our web site and get a pdf download.