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The Municipal Corporation of Cusco Festivities (EMUFEC), during carnival celebrations this year, coordinated with the City of Cusco and its various managements the realization of "Carnival Cusqueño 2011", whose program will consist of various activities which have as the closing finale carnival for Sunday March 13th at the Plaza de Armas of Cusco.

The carnival program is labeled "Dance, colors and flavors of my country" and will start on February 24 with the aid of allegories alluding to the "Compadres" and on 3 March, the contest for "The Wives" with special prizes for the winners in various categories, provided by EMUFEC and the Regional Bureau of Culture.

Promperú Thursday launched the campaign "puts South", which hopes to mobilize 20,000 tourists to the regions of Arequipa, Cusco, Puno and Madre de Dios, a campaign that began Feb. 15 and will run until 31 March, it coincides with the period of carnival, for it will be discounts of up to 40% on airfare, ground transportation 15%, 30% in restaurants and up to 77% in some hotels.

With this initiative Promperú, hopes the initiative will generate an economic movement of 16 million soles. Promperú Ladirectora of Tourism, Rocio Merino, explained that in the campaign involved 118 companies and 90% of them are from the provinces, who joined after coordinating with the regional government authorities.

Within the academic events announcing the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad of Cusco (UNSAAC) is the International Seminar: Challenges, Opportunities and Tools for Managing Tourism at World Heritage Cities, it will be held from 21 February to March 4 this year at the Inca Museum in Cusco and is organized by the UNSAAC, Cuenca University of Ecuador and the Universidad La Rabida in Spain.

The agenda is as follows: The characteristic features of tourism as an economic activity. The system of tourist activities. Alexandra Galarza. University of Cuenca.
The structure of the tourist market. Main flows and destinations. Paradigm shifts, trends and scenarios of global demand. David Flores Ruiz. Universidad de Huelva.

From March 31 to April 2 will be held in Cusco the 8th International Tourism Fair 2011 BONIOTUR called "Machu Picchu Maravilla 100 years"which is the annual gathering of businessmen in the tourism sector to be held in the Hotel Tourist in Cusco and will include reconnaissance trips to Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley and City Tours combined.

Cusco, Machu Picchu and BONIOTUR, will bring together professionals in the international tourism industry to enhance the promotion and marketing of tourism products and destinations. Cusco became the ideal showcase for establishing new business contacts, meet market developments and promote and realize new business.

The Regional Director of Culture Cusco architect Juan Julio Garcia Rivas, said that the colonial churches are in the process of intervention by the specialists of cultural agency, are Urcos Apostle Santiago, Virgen de las Nieves Sangare, St. James Chapel of Pircca, Temple of Santa Ana-Cusco, Hurinsaya temple, San Juan Bautista de Ccatca.

They are also operated on the temples of Calca, Sichuan matrix Temple, St. Peter the Apostle in Pisac Sanctuary Huampo Huampo with an investment of 7 million 648 thousand 490 new soles.

Tourism ministers of the countries of Argentina and Chile agreed to launch a joint work program to attract tourists from Australia, South Africa, China and the Middle East, among others.

The agreement was reached during the Third Binational Meeting of Ministers held in Santiago de Chile last week and was reported in a statement the Ministry of Tourism.

For the enjoyment of thousands of tourists, new tourist routes open in Peru, this time the Amazon region, located in the northern jungle of Peru, introduced a new tourist circuit, called "On the path of the bagua, the same which houses archaeological and natural attractions.

More than 50 people, including public workers and the provinces of Bagua Utcubamba, journalists and residents attended the first course organized by the Sub Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Bagua.

From 16 to January 18, 2011, Jamaica hosted the Caribbean Marketplace 2011, the most important marketing event for the hotel industry and tourism in the Caribbean, where they met the main actors in the Caribbean tourism industry, hoteliers and vendors offering the opportunity to meet buyers and wholesalers around the world to network, establish agreements and make important business.

It was organized by the Association of Caribbean Hotel & Tourism (CHTA), the Association of Hotels and Tourism of Jamaica (JHTA), the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), the Government of Jamaica, and sponsored by MasterCard International and Virgin Holidays.

Embratur, the Brazilian Institute of Tourism, resumed promotional roadshow called Brazil Sensational in Portugal, an event aimed at operators and the tourist trade this year precedes the BTL, the International Tourism Fair of Lisbon. Will be held on 21 and 22 February in the cities of Oporto and Lisbon, respectively.

Embratur has informed that the aim is to present the major developments on to Brazil for 2011, taking advantage of participation in BTL - Lisboa Travel Market.

Already started the festival in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria, the patron saint of the city of Puno, Peru, it represents the largest and most important cultural expression, music and dance of Peru. This year will feature more than 45 000 dancers, grouped in 77 sets.

It was reported that the Virgen de la Candelaria, accompanied by officials, faithful and dancers, will leave in procession through the main streets of the city of Puno on Wednesday February 2 main day of the Feast of the Virgen de la Candelaria.

In the city of Juliaca, Puno, will launch a new tourist circuit designed to increase the number of visitors which includes a full turn of Lake Titicaca, which spans parts of Peru and Bolivia. Lucio Mamani, zonal head of the Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade and Tourism in Juliaca, told the newspaper "Mail"that the initiative includes walking tours (trekking), road navigation, in order to know the real extent of this natural attraction.

The route will reveal the communities living near the lake and islands that lie in it, as Taquile and Amantani, on the Peruvian side, and the moon and the sun, on the Bolivian side, also will take advantage of the benefits asphalted recently opened to start the journey from Juliaca to La Paz, and follow road to end at the place of departure.

RPP recent news portal published the note on the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, which are located in the Valley of Majes Castilla province 220 km from the Arequipa region, the same would have become one of the most attractive for domestic and foreign tourists, which is mainly for the perfection of his art.

The venue has been viewed as the repository of rock art in the world that was discovered for science on August 5, 1951, whose ancient name was "Hatum Quilcapamapa".

From April the Almudena cemetery in the historic city of Cusco tourist circuit will open a night, and officials said the Public Welfare Society Cusco. It is noteworthy that the month of November last year under the coordination of the Association of Tourist Guides, succeeded a tour of 400 tourists on the premises of the cemetery.

For now, the Charity has been coordinating with the Regional Bureau for Culture in the implementation of a lighting system in the mausoleums of the left and right quarters that are accessed by the Arc of the Confederation Peru - Bolivia enclosure.

A group of journalists from the province of San Juan, Argentina, visited the town of Coquimbo, where they held a meeting with the mayor of the city and could see the main attractions, geographical and architectural, in the area.

The journey of this group of media professionals, began in Paihuano, ranging from La Serena, Coquimbo and Andacollo. The trip comes as part of an initiative promoted by the Department of Tourism Paihuano, which is supported at the community level through the municipal Tourism address Coquimbo, this part of the work done jointly by both entities, in a action that seeks to showcase and promote tourist attributes among potential visitors trasandinos area.

According to the latest data released on January 26 by the World Tourism Organization, in 2010, the country of China replaced Spain as the third largest tourist destination in the world.

France is located in the first place, followed by USA and China in 2010, received 55.98 million foreign tourists, up 10 percent compared to 2009. According to the agency, the global tourism industry has been restored after the international financial crisis.

France celebrates again its leadership as the first recipient of tourists in the world, a condition that holds for 20 years, which is now looking to conquer the China market. Fit to point out that the figures are provisional as the final will be announced in late February in Madrid, the WTO headquarters.

According to the article published in Prensa Latina, the French secretariat sources of Tourism would have rated excellent news that the European country repeat its success, this time with 78.9 million visitors in 2010.

With the aim of spreading jointly by the Latin American baroque and promote the exchange of cultural activities and events, the city of Antigua, Guatemala, Quito, Ecuador, Ouro Preto, Brazil, in addition to Mexico City, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Morelia, Queretaro , Zacatecas and Puebla, formed the Network of Latin American baroque cities.

The participating mayors signed an agreement to create this network, which began planning for two years in the city of Quito. Among the objectives proposed by this emerging group is to promote the appreciation of some similar elements that identify and distinguish the historical heritage of these cities considered Cultural Heritage of Humanity, further promoting cultural tourism and the member cities, sharing good practices and establishing an agenda for working together to share activities and cultural events.

In order for employers and the media knew the infrastructure topped the Congress and Convention Center, state officials offered a tour of its facilities, where there will be a total of 30 events this year, with a higher economic benefit to billion pesos.

Pozo Manuel Cabrera, Head of the Administrative Office of the State Government, said that this center is a very important and valuable site for Queretaro, and thanks to its infrastructure and urban equipment, placed at the forefront of Querétaro strengthen tourism business, so it was reported in the Journal of Queretaro Rotary.

The electronic portal offnews.info indicates that an increasing numbers, in terms of money and patients, which gives medical tourism. This is to travel to other countries for cheaper medical care and services as they know the place, says a note of THE UNIVERSAL.

So that tourists would be willing to combine sun, sand and surgeries during his vacation. The services most sought in medical tourism are surgeries that can go from one heart to a dental or plastic, specifically the section on medical tourism in Wikipedia.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of Peru, Carlos Posada, Peru seeks indicated that one of the concrete Australian airlines direct flights to Lima, aiming at 2012, with the objective of improving connectivity and boost the inbound tourism of both countries.

The official stated to Andina news agency, seeking to generate the interest of the government of Australia to realize a direct flight to Lima, as the airline currently Qantassólo arrives in Chile.

At the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Madrid, he presented a manual with the most characteristic of Benidorm to promote gay tourism in the city they have created a specialized guide for this sector to reach this type untapped market.

The manual contains a list of the entertainment venues, restaurants and hotels that exist in the city dedicated to that audience while providing all the information about the city and its tourism resources.

Ecuador's government is interested in this country with the greatest biodiversity in the world, make tourism in their primary source of income, as stated in Madrid, Spain Tourism Minister Ecuadorian Freddy Ehlers Zurita.

Ehlers presented to thirteen ministers of the major tourist destinations in Latin America and Spain, and two hundred businessmen and experts including directors were business associations and trade groups of travel agents, noted that Ecuador reported in 2010 an increase of over 8% in the number of foreign tourists and invited the Spanish and European businessmen to invest in Ecuador, which highlighted the existence of a new regulatory framework, the Production Code.

Dominican colony Miami held the next 11 to 13 February, the Month of the country with the show 'Dom Expo USA International Fair 2011' at the Miami Airport Convention Center ', the DoubleTree Miami Mart Hotel & Exhibition Center.

The organizers of the activity explained that the goal is that multiple companies can expand their business to dozens of manufacturers and distributors of big U.S. companies, the Caribbean and Latin America. The main sponsors of the exhibition are the Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic and American Airlines.

Two years after its inception, the program guides Becán Children, which promotes the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Campeche, affording a greater rapprochement between the infants with their cultural heritage and encouraged, in turn, the spread of sites rarely visited by tourists, as is the case Becán Archaeological Zone, where a small group of ethnic chol part giving guided tours.

The program involves indigenous children in this group of Mayan origin, aged 7 to 11 years of age, knowledge, conservation and dissemination of pre-Hispanic site, discovered 43 years ago and opened in the late 60's.

The national coordinator of community rural tourism of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Fernando Vera Rebollar, reported that about 10 000 visitors, domestic and foreign, rural community tourism made in Arequipa in 2010.

The most visited areas of experiential tourism were Sibayo Coporaque, Yanque Tapay and Cabanaconde, jurisdictions located along the Colca Valley in the province of Caylloma. More than four years ago began working with the residents of these localities to implement the rural tourism and disseminate not only traditional practices but also to promote the welfare of the community.

On January 13, 2011, we launched the festival in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria, which lasted four hours, the same as thousands of residents, officials of the Puno Region and tourists enjoyed beginning of the traditional fiesta in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria, considered the greatest living expression that allows to show Peruvian and foreign cultural wealth Puno.

On the occasion of this festival, the city of Puno, receive thousands of domestic and foreign tourists. To ensure the safety of visitors, the general director of the National Police, Raul Becerra Velarde, today launched the so-called National Plan of Public Safety, at a ceremony in the city of Puno, with assistance from local authorities.

Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez indicated that the III Summit of Heads of State and Government Forum South America-Arab Countries (ASPA), will be an unprecedented step of linking two cultures and an excellent opportunity to realize investment opportunities between the two regions.

Therefore, Peruvian entrepreneurs invited to prepare exhibits and projects to capture the interest of Arab countries during the course of the summit, to be held in Lima next month, and that has prompted much attention to the point that will come to Peru , The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon.

Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Eduardo Ferreyros, today announced that this year our country would receive more than 90,000 Spanish tourists due to increased air connectivity between the two countries and the intense tourism promotion conducted by the Peruvian government. Also reported that last year nearly 80, 000 Spanish tourists visited Peru.

He mentioned that currently there are 22 frequencies of flights between Spain and Peru. He further stressed that Spain will become the platform to attract thousands of European tourists to Peru, for which the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism has been working on strategies to achieve this goal.

The Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador will receive technical support from the World Tourism Organization (WTO) as a result of the meeting held last Thursday in Madrid, days in which developed the International Tourism Fair (FITUR 2011), which has called for 124,644 tourism professionals, 64,076 exhibitors, 10,966 exhibitors from 166 countries on five continents.

Minister of Tourism of Ecuador, Freddy Ehlers in the company of the Ambassador of Ecuador in Spain, Galo Chiriboga Zambrano, requested technical assistance from the International Organization for shoring the most important aspects of it.

Cooking Championship of the Community, organized by AMER-Madrid Association of Food, "which presented the Fitur and held on 26 February, prior to Spain is being held on the occasion of International Exhibition Gourmet Club, which will lead to the appointment of the Spanish representative at the Bocuse d'Or competition known.

The cuisine has become an alternative both for tourists, for both locals and the region and has the capacity to meet demand because it has a wide range of establishments, which represent the best cuisine in Madrid and other parts of Spain and the world.