El Salvador launches new ecotourism website
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Central America’s most undiscovered ecotourism destination has just announced the launch of its new web portal, elsalvadorexperience.com, where travelers can investigate the spectacular volcanic, coffee growing region of the western provinces online for the first time.
elsalvadorexperience.com is being launched with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as the nation’s 1st international branding campaign to position the country as an emerging, ecological destination, where committed, local people work together to share their true identity with the world.
The goal of the new website is to launch the nation’s first international branding campaign to position El Salvador as an emerging, ecological destination, where committed people and communities work together to share their best-kept secrets with visitors.
El Salvador Emerging From the Past
El Salvador is emerging, leaving its conflictual past behind and reinventing itself as an adventure and cultural destination. The Eco-Experiencias project is helping Salvadoran communities, workers cooperatives, NGOs, and private landowners to interpret themselves to create one of a kind, sustainable experiences that highlight unique cultural, natural and geographical qualities of the departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.
The web portal is being developed in two phases. Phase 1, launched on November 13, 2008, presents an interpretive preview of western El Salvador’s four tourism destinations: the Route of the Flowers, the Western Pacific, Forests and Mangroves Region, and The Volcanoes. Each destination provides unique and largely untouched cultural and natural attractions to be explored.
Phase 2 will be launched during a special event in San Salvador on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, and will feature packages of activities called eco-experiences, all managed by local people, in each of the four regions.
Currently, the site is owned by an informal group of agencies and businesses. In August 2009, the program will be transferred to a Salvadoran host that will continue the program’s mission and expand the model nationwide to foster small business development and biodiversity conservation in all of the departments of the country.
For more information, visit www.elsalvadorexperience.com.
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Comment by tom pollak on November 21st, 2008:
would you please contact me. i just recently purchased a hotel on the ocean in esteron …. just down the road from playa el cuco. i also have 5 houses on the ocean. i am starting a turtle perserve .. i have already saved 5000 turtles and and interested in creating national park to preserve the mangale. the local mayor of intipuca has been no help at all and is very antagonistic and i have found the services of medio ambiante to be of little to no help.. although they do have the right idea. i am not looking for money… i have money and want to start a green resort but i need access to the decission makers in el salvador that can help me cut through the red tape. tom pollak my number in ny is 917 881-1515. i will return to el sal in early december. my number there 7 774-4855. thanks
Comment by Club Penguin Cheats on August 29th, 2009:
I have already saved 5000 turtles and and interested in creating national park to preserve the mangale. the local mayor of intipuca has been no help at all and is very antagonistic and i have found the services of medio ambiante to be of little to no help.. although they do have the right idea.
Comment by El Salvador Ecotourism on October 22nd, 2009:
Awesome that there is a whole site dedicated to El Salvador ecotourism and travel. With such a wide variety of plant and animal life, beautiful beaches and ideal surfing conditions, it's no wonder travel there is on the rise.
Comment by El Salvador Ecotourism on October 22nd, 2009:
Awesome that there is a whole site dedicated to El Salvador ecotourism and travel. With such a wide variety of plant and animal life, beautiful beaches and ideal surfing conditions, it's no wonder travel there is on the rise.