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Minister launches challenge
26% of tourists said that practicing canopy in Costa Rica and 53% observed flora and fauna
Panama wants to take advantage of its natural parks and exploit ecotourism, as it has done its neighbor Costa Rica, one of the world’s greatest exponents of green tourism, acknowledged Thursday Environment Minister, Mirei Endara.
"We have not taken our (natural) wealth of the way we have done our neighbors. We want to ride on that trend, "the hierarch acknowledged in a press conference.
The Ministry of Environment of Panama on Thursday presented a plan of action to develop green tourism in some of the more than one hundred protected areas in the country, like Coiba National Park and the Volcan Baru National Park, point from where you can see the Caribbean sea and the Pacific ocean.
Works. "We want to create infrastructure in these protected areas and establish the necessary regulations to facilitate handling between communities and facilitate the incorporation of private services" Endara said the minister.
The goal, said the owner, is to achieve "sustainable, quality that benefits communities and make the private sector participate" tourism.
About 40% of Panamanian territory is protected and the Central American country is also one of the best places in the world for bird watching, with nearly 1,000 species, he noted for its part, general manager of the Tourism Authority Panama (ATP), Gustavo Him.
"Most of the 2.4 million visitors who receive not venture outside the city of Panama. Only 12% of people who visit us perform tasks related to nature tourism activities, "said Him.
In Costa Rica, meanwhile, 53% of tourists said they attended the observation of flora and fauna, including the activities selected for their stay in the country. This was revealed by a survey of data output by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT).
41% of travelers said he visited volcanoes, 38% did hiking trails, while 15% reported that practiced snorkeling.
