All tourism directors, business owners, hoteliers, and other stakeholders seeking to benefit from the holiday season expect a significant economic boost in each of their sectors, but the reality is that when it comes to training and downloading courses on economics, marketing, tourism, and new technologies, almost no one comes forward to receive this free advice. This has been the case in the state capital, confirmed Arely Orozco Bojorquez, Director of Economic Development and Tourism in Tepic.
“We have invested heavily in the training and professionalization of the city council’s services, staff, and cabinet, but in this area of training, I believe many of us still fail to understand that training and professionalization, starting from the bottom up, is essential for the continued growth of the municipality, the state, tourism, and even the business owners themselves. Suddenly, we are looking for good training, and very few people attend.” – Arely Orozco Bojorquez, Director of Economic Development and Tourism at the City Council of Tepic, Nayarit.
For his part, Tourism Secretary Juan Enrique Suárez del Real Tostado emphasized the need to revive traditional cuisine, creating restaurants with Mexican-inspired dishes in the communities to attract tourism and ecotourism to mountain locations. However, he stated that locals aren’t very cooperative. He asserted that other campaigns have been launched to attract visitors, but when interested parties are asked to attend courses or training sessions, no one shows up.
“We are going to start now with the process of what is the rescue of traditional cuisine, or traditional cuisines. It cannot be possible that a state with so much history, which was the cradle, the beginning of the kingdom of the new Galicia, the cradle of Mexicanness, the origin of life according to our rock Tatei Aramara, we do not have traditional cuisines. And if we do have them, they are there, but we have not generated a situation and we need to promote this as a cultural issue. It is not just about opening a workshop, it is about making that workshop have the opportunity to have tourism and that is the challenge. Look, we did a campaign for Palm Sunday and not one person signed up.” – Juan Enrique Suárez del Real Tostado, Secretary of Tourism in the government of Nayarit.
Source: meganoticias
