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• City and business chambers sign agreement to promote a “Weekend in Jalapa”

Jalapa Enriquez, View, and July 22, 2011. – This is the first time a municipal president is leading an effort directed to approach tour operators and Jalapa position as the new destination, agreed, suppliers and service providers in the industry, who said “only Elizabeth Garcia Morales opened the gates of the capital of Veracruz to know it and promote it.”

At a breakfast in the courtyard of City Hall, Elizabeth Garcia Morales presented the program “Weekend in Jalapa, Summer of Culture and Nature” to the media and representatives of the tourism sector to offer the “Athens of Veracruz” in the national tour and International during this holiday season.

It also made the signature of a cooperation agreement between the City and business associations to assist in the promotion of Jalapa and the region as a new destination and delivery kits marketers advertising and hoteliers and restaurateurs in the area.

In this regard, on behalf of the owners of the 119 hotels that are in Jalapa, the president of the Association of Hotels and Motels Jalapa, Quadrate Yvonne Mora acknowledged the mayor’s initiative to detonate the potential cultural, musical and tourist Veracruz capital and the region.

“For the first time a mayor of this city is near to us … We appreciate the tremendous effort that this municipality has been carried out by potentiating Jalapa and tourist area of ​​the state in recent days we attended the opening of the Cave of the orchid effort to recognize as hotel, “he said.

Meanwhile, the president of the Mexican Association of Travel Agencies of Mexico City, Gerardo Perez Aguilar stressed that this tourism promotion, Jalapa cease to be a transit and included in the routes of national interest Mouth Rio Catamarca Taking in Mexico.

“The advantage we see here is that we have our doors open, the municipal president has been very supportive, because there are places where authorities do not support us, is the fourth familiarization trip we do and we are delighted,” he declared.

In this sense, introducing the holiday program, the mayor said the benefits Jalapa in culture, nature, adventure, religion, musical and artistic activity that has the Athens of Veracruz and reported the completion of the fourth familiarization trip for three days doing operators tourist defense.

“During the promotion of the city that began last January, have armed routes according to the interests and economy of the walkers, such as the Cultural Jalapa package that includes cultural, artistic and musical of the billboard this holiday season” he said.
While the package includes ecotourism Natural Jalapa, Jalapa Adventure on the practice of extreme sports like cannoning and river descent, and the Jalapa Healthy walk in places that have hot springs, museums and landscaping activities.

In addition to historical and natural wealth of the region, Elizabeth Garcia Morales explained that Jalapa has among its attractions with: 33 parks and gardens, eight museums, galleries, 9, 27 churches, 4 parishes, 7 historic alleys and walk for 42 murals.
“We want to tell the business that has state and local government this is a project that we are deeply committed and together we make one team to promote a new destination in the country, this new destination is called Jalapa City flowers, “he said.