This Thursday the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism and Fontur presented the 10 new routes awarded within the FNTP-224-2021 project for the “Promotion of New Destinations and/or National Routes”, that will directly connect the territories and strengthen regional tourism.
(The first seven new air routes in Colombia are listed).
According to the Minister of Commerce, Ximera Lombana, the start-up of these new routes will allow the arrival of 30,000 new tourists, 7,000 of them in this mid-year season, according to Ministry projections.
The new routes are part of the campaign Fly Without Stopping, which includes an incentive for promotion to the winning airlines of the call.
These actions contemplate an investment of $850,000,000 in promotionin order to publicize these new opportunities that tourists from the country and abroad have, to visit destinations that previously did not have direct routes.
“All of the new routes will be operating before June 30, which guarantees a benefit for travelers in terms of time and connectivity, in addition to the positive impact on the regions due to the flow of visitors.”
(Air routes that are released in Colombia in the first half of 2022).
The official added that in the first 10 days of June “We will have work groups to link with tourism providers in order to provide quality products and strengthen economic growth for their businesses and territories.”
For her part, the Minister of Transportation, Ángela María Orozco, highlighted the good path that the airline and tourism industry has taken in the country. “Today, the positive results are more than evident, since in the first four months of this year, the number of passengers reached 14.7 million, an increase of 14.7% compared to the same period in 2019 and 111.5 % compared to the same period of 2021”.
In turn, the director of Civil Aeronautics, Jair Orlando Fajardo, highlighted the work that was carried out in a coordinated manner between the different entities to ensure that these new regional routes begin to operate and guarantee the economic reactivation promoted by the government of President Iván Duke. He also pointed out that the airlines that will operate these new destinations will have state-of-the-art aircraft.
The promotion of these new routes has a very prominent component, as they are direct routes, they contribute to caring for the environment since by using a single flight to connect two points, polluting emissions are reduced.
The airlines in charge of these new routes are Avianca, Viva Air, Easyfly, Satena and Pacifica de Aviación, reaching destinations that are not on the radar such as Capurganá, Tolú and La Macarena, which did not have regular operations.
The airlines and routes awarded are the following:
Company Routes
one. Avianca Bucaramanga – Cali
two. Cali–Riohacha
3. Satena Bogotá – Tolu
Four. Medellin – La Macarena
5. Easyfly Barranquilla – Valledupar
6. Pereira – Villavicencio
7. Viva Air Cali – Monteria
8. Armenia – Cartagena
9. Armenia – Saint Andrew
10. Pacifica Medellin – Capurganá
It is estimated that around 275,000 visitors will enter the country this June.
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