Beautiful Venezuela: Tourism with a Social Conscience

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1. you should go then

you don't need to read government propaganda to do so. it wasn't much of a stellar assessment of the tourism anyway. the article discusses a few government sponsored projects and activities but says little about actual tourist destinations in Venezuela. No mention of Angel Falls, Canaima, Los Roques, Merida only in passing, Gran Sabana, Orinoco River, Chichiriviche, Tovar, the rest of the Andes,or the coast line.



more from the article:

Then, after passing the Organic Tourism Law in 2008, the ministry and the government came up with the Strategic National Tourist Plan 2009-2013. The plan analysed tourism at a world level, then the situation in Venezuela, and discusses social and community tourism, training, and improving the quality of tourism and its promotion here. It also recognised a number of weaknesses.

Lack of planning for tourist destinations, lack of basic services and infrastructure to support tourism, inadequate use of technology, such as the internet, for promoting tourism, little importance given to cultural traditions, lack of a tourist culture in terms of receiving tourists, and high airport taxes and flight costs to the country were some of the weaknesses it identified. Venezuela also isn’t identified as a tourist destination globally, is given a bad image by international private media, and is more expensive than many other Latin American countries.