Countries that have signed up to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA) on Tuesday announced a plan to make the South American jungle region a sustainable tourist destiny by the year 2009.
"The plan aims to make the Amazonia more visible in world's tourist market and to increase tourist visits," OTCA's Communication and Tourism coordinator Donald Sinclair told the press.
The Amazonia is considered the world's largest natural lung covering an area of 7.5 million square kms, embracing parts of the territories of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.
The OTCA delegation visiting Ecuador is to meet with tourism officials in the Amazonia region.
Surinamese native Sinclair said the sustainable plan "2009: year of the Amazonia" is being designed to motivate tourism in the region.
"The plan aims to integrate individual member countries' actions to create one sole tourism project and it also seeks cooperation among other tourism agencies, such as Germany's GTZ," Sinclair said.
The Amazonia has some 30 million inhabitants and it embraces almost 40 percent of South American territory in "a jungle of supreme beauty unknown by many," Sinclair said.
Source: Xinhua
|
Comment
Tell A Friend
Print Format
Save Article