ETC back and better than ever The European Travel Commission (ETC) hosted its Transatlantic Conference in New York recently, bring the event back to North America after an absence of a couple of years. Discussions are now underway to once again make the ETC’s Transatlantic Conference an annual event. ETC is looking at hosting it again in New York during the first quarter of 2014. Seen in the photo, from left to right, during a reception at the Loft and Garden in Rockefeller Center in New York, are Manuel Butler, president, ETC, Andrew McCarthy, keynote speaker (actor turned travel writer) and Eduardo Santander, executive director, ETC.