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Adventure Tourism Congress
CIUDAD VALLES, San Luis Potosi - Mexico's most ambitious, state-led adventure tourism conferences ended Sunday, March 21, in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi.
The city hosted the First International Adventure Tourism Congress in the Huasteca Potosina. Unlike traditional conferences that hold formal presentations for several days, followed by familiarization trips, this congress combined both formal presentations and outdoor expeditions, including rafting, rappelling and hiking. More than 150 people attended the conference that ran from March 17-21.
Conference presentations were given by Alberto Sanchez Sainz from the Costa Rican Tourism Institute, guidebook writer Ron Mader and Mexican ecotourism specialists Angel Nieve, Jorge Trujillo Rincon and Carlos Lascano.
An exposition area accompanied the congress where distributors of adventure tourism equipment displayed biking, mountaineering and rafting equipment. Expositors included Mexico City's Deportes Rubens and Monterrey's Outdoor Life.
The conference was so successful that Alejandro Morones Ochoa, director of tourism for San Luis Potosi, promised a follow-up conference in the beginning of the year 2000. "It's not the world's obligation to know about the Husteca region," he said during the closing panel. "It's our job to inform the world about what the Huasteca region has to offer."
Mexico is currently going through a boom in ecotourism and adventure tourism conferences and workshops. Mexico city's National Autonomous University (UNAM) will conduct a two week course in ecotourism at the beginning of June. Later this summer, the northern border state of Chihuahua hosts its Third International Festival of Adventure Tourism from July 5 to 18.
Chihuahua State Tourism Office
Contact: Carlos Lazcano
Email: cturismo@buzon.chihuahua.gob.mx
UNAM Environmental Program (PUMA)
Contact: Maricarmen Rodriguez
(5) 505-0793
Email: puma@servidor.unam.mx
Outdoor Life
Gomez Morin 309
Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
outdoor@sdm.net.mx
(8) 378-1577 and 387-1519
Deportes Ruben's
Venustiano Carranza 17
Mexico City
(5) 518-6373 and 518-5636
rubens@mail.teesa.com
Aventura Vertical magazine
vertical@data.net.mx
Eco Travels in Mexico
San Luis Potosi on the Web - Business Mexico magazine San Luis Potosi State Government Website1998-2001 Copyright Ron Mader. Permission granted to cite this article and/or to create links to its home on the web (http://www.planeta.com/ planeta/99/0499slp.html).
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