This Tuesday morning, the intersectoral meeting with the ministers of environment and tourism that are part of the Central American Integration System (SICA) was inaugurated in our country.
This meeting is part of the agenda promoted by Panama, which until next June holds the Pro Tempore presidency of SICA.
This meeting seeks to consolidate a regional position, focused on sustainable tourism in the Central American region and the Dominican Republic, in view of the global and regional forums in which the subject is addressed, a fundamental step in the task of obtaining international financing for development. of regional projects that impact the quality of life of the population.
The Minister of the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP), Iván Eskildsen, who was in charge of welcoming, said: “We feel powerfully motivated to implement this work in our country, where we are sure that it will bring not only prosperity but a guarantee that the peoples that make up our country will be able to be the most faithful custodians of natural resources”.
He assured that tourism is a way of life that guarantees prosperity for all communities and it is expected to achieve that conservation that is so required by all the countries of the world.
For his part, the Minister of the Environment, Milciades Concepción, explained that eight countries from Central America and the Dominican Republic are meeting. “Today we will be in work sessions and the final product will be declarations from our Central American countries in relation to climate change and the way of doing sustainable tourism,” he said.
He took the opportunity to make a call to the Panamanian population. “The garbage watchers are each one of the 4.3 million inhabitants of this country, we cannot continue throwing garbage in the streets, we are irresponsible; that goes against ourselves, it is a shame. We cannot continue with this” .
It should be noted that this meeting is part of the mandate of the council of presidents of the region, meeting in 2021, who saw the need to develop a route for the consolidation of sustainable tourism in each of their countries.
