Important objectives in the Antofagasta Region Tourism Pictures
This year the holidays Aging Senator managed to incorporate a “San Pedro de Atacama,” one of the most important destinations in the region of Antofagasta and Chile’s tourist image as a destination of the program. On August 2 received the first delegation of older adults who use the program in its 2011 version.
The National Director of Tourism, Alvaro Castillo made the press launch of the Third Age Holidays program, an initiative by the Government of Chile, through which the National Tourism Service (Senator) subsidizes about 40% of packages for over 60 years.
Claudia Menses, Sarema economy, Development and Tourism in the region, stresses that the program aims to promote access for the elderly and handicapped persons to the benefits of tourism, as well as enhance the breakdown of the seasonal tourism.
In this regard, the Regional Director of Senator, Gustavo Herrera Soto emphasized that “among the novelties of this 2011 season, destinations and existing distributed between Arica and Chiloe, this year is added by 1, once a new destination as San Pedro de Atacama Region of Antofagasta, which allows not only open niches age ranges that reach the region but also pose new challenges for employers to create new tourism products with emphasis on the profile of tourists from this year’s program bring to our region. “
The first group of seniors arrived in San Pedro de Atacama on 02 August and their hometowns are La Serena, Santiago, Vine del Mar or Valparaiso. The whole package is worth $ 182,158 .- and includes roundtrip air transportation (bus from Kalama airport to San Pedro de Atacama, round trip), accommodation 6 days and 5 nights with all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner ), a city tour, travel medical assistance and travel assistance insurance. For the development and monitoring of compliance with program conditions, Senator hired directly into San Pedro de Atacama a staff who daily visit the accommodation to handle the highest quality of care to passengers under the terms of the agreed program.
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