日韩午夜精品视频,欧美私密网站,国产一区二区三区四区,国产主播一区二区三区四区

Home / Travel / News Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Tourism promotion in Amazon Rainforest
Adjust font size:

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) Wednesday launched a campaign to promote tourism in the Amazon Rainforest area.

The Amazon Rainforest area occupies over 7.5 million square kilometers, about 40 percent of South America's territory, but it does not attract as many tourists as it could.

In order to attract tourists, both domestic and foreign, the ACTO will promote, during the next year, over 80 events in the eight countries in which the Amazon River Basin is located: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.

Among the events foreseen in the campaign are festivals, congresses, indigenous celebrations, social forums and carnivals.

"It is an enormous challenge and a great opportunity to generate revenues to the local populations," said Francisco Ruiz, ACTO's general secretary, during a press conference. According to Ruiz, only 3 percent of Brazilians choose the Amazon Rainforest area as a tourist destination.

ACTO's Tourism Coordinator Donald Sinclair qualifies the campaign as an opportunity to provide sustainable development to the region, which suffers from deforestation.

According to Sinclair, a study carried out by 120 tourism agencies in Europe showed that the Amazon Rainforest area has a great potential as a destination to those who seek adventure and more contact with nature. However, only 5 to 6 percent of all tourists who arrive at the eight countries in the Amazon River basin visit the Amazon Rainforest area.

(Xinhua News Agency November 27, 2008)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
主站蜘蛛池模板: 镇平县| 临朐县| 龙南县| 五家渠市| 木里| 温州市| 大洼县| 新化县| 木里| 聂荣县| 定陶县| 丹寨县| 九龙坡区| 东乡族自治县| 息烽县| 望城县| 杨浦区| 紫金县| 乌兰浩特市| 澎湖县| 开远市| 依安县| 夏津县| 福建省| 通道| 龙游县| 温宿县| 托克托县| 察雅县| 昌宁县| 即墨市| 保康县| 仪征市| 南平市| 鹤壁市| 鄂伦春自治旗| 浙江省| 合水县| 平湖市| 涿鹿县| 沙洋县|