THE THERMAL VILLAGES AND THE HEALTHY ROUTES, IN THE FIRST SEMINAR OF THERMALISM IN PERU.

TermasWorld presents the Healthy Routes.

The Vice Minister of Tourism, Ramiro Salas Bravo, will inaugurate the day 6 of March the First National Seminar of Thermalism "Thermal Tourism in the Peru. A possibility of Development." The act will take place in Cajamarca, included in the activities programmed in the Project "Integral strengthening of the Tourism in Perú ?FIT Perú"-, whose object is to promote the culture of the water and the thermal riches of the Andean country.

Professionals of the health and representatives of the tourist sector, local and cultural institutions as well as local entities and social agents, will converse with the European specialists to analyze the thermal resources of the country and of the district of Baths of the Inca in Cajamarca.

The Program " Development of the Thermalism in the Peru". Isabel Mendoza Navarro, Directora de Normatividad y Supervision de la Dirección Nacional de Desarrollo Turístico, will open the scientific session. The environmental impact in a thermal area and the preventive aspects and conservation for the improvement of the sustainable environment, will be another of the topics proposed by Juan Malo de Molina, enviromental expert and director of Econima.

The specialist in Thermal Tourism, Mayte Suárez Santos, will inform about the importance of the thermal villages as a project of integral urbanísm, with solutions on bioclimátic design and harmony of the whole meeting the social demands. A concept of sustainable thermal city that is imposed in the Europe of the new millennium.

The director of Consulting TermasWorld, has been invited to participate in this first experience where acquires special protagonism the city of Cajamarca that has been defined by the spanish specialist as the "Thermal Village of the Incas."

Located in the north circuit of Peru, Cajamarca constitutes a key region for the tourist development, with competitive advantages in market segments that are projected as those of more growth in the sector.

In the east area of the city, is located the "Baths of the Inca", SPA of thermal and mineromedicinals waters formerly well-known under the name of Pultumarca and it was the place where the Inca Atahualpa was during the arrival of the Spaniards.

They are natural springs whose waters sprout to the surface with more than 70 centigrade degrees.

The Baths of the Inca are located two thousand 650 meters above sea level. During the Incan splendor, it was a elegant residence sorrounded by trees and springs. Here is located the famous Puddle of the Inca. At the present time it is considered as one of the main tourist circuits of the department of Cajamarca.

A committee multisectorial, promoteded by the Viceministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, it is carrying out combined actions in order to increase the possibilities of this natural attractiveness. The Baths of the Inca have an excellent quality and quantity of thermo-medicinal water with important healing properties. They are extremely medicinal waters, specially suitable for rheumatic illnesses and treatment of the skin. Also for nervous affections.

To promote the thermal resources of the district of Baths of Inca in Cajamarca through a sustainable tourist circuit, it constitutes one of the high-priority actions of the Proyecto Piloto of Cajamarca that has the support of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI).

In this sense, an official delegation of the Czech Republic visited by the middle of July the place to carry out a technical evaluation of the quality of the thermal waters, in accordance with an agreement between the Peruvian and Czech governments.

The First Seminar of Thermalism is framed inside the calendar of activities for the design of a Plan of Action, in order to establish an strategic planning to reach the objectives of the Program.

HEALTHY ROUTES

"The health and the well-being deserve an appropriate planning", according to Mayte Suárez that considers the attendance to the spas, the promotions of the thermal villages and the healthy routes, high-priority activities for the Public Administrations.

In their opinion " the qualities of the thermal villages are not sufficient, the population has to be convinced of the economic benefits that reports the tourism of health."

The publisher of TermasWorld and co-publisher with BuscaSalud.com, of the interactive series Healthy Routes, will present in the First National Seminar of Thermalism, the design of this new tourist product that has as objective, to break up with the routine, to recover the healthy habits and to avoid the estrés.

After more than ten years of experience in this specialization line, the spanish writer and divulging, considers that the strategic situation of the spas, makes possible the realization of alternative itineraries that include geographical, artistic and environmental aspects. So, "only a good understanding of sectors implied in to promote the hotel and tourist resources, would create the foundations to implant Thermal Routes" in the region.

The explanation how to create a thermal zone by means of Thermal or Healthy Routes and the definition of each one of these concepts will be supplemented with the projection of a divulging videotape, carried out by the spanish specialist and titled "The Thermal Route of the High Támega", where the evolution of the tourist?thermal aspect, of the geographical area, Galicia-North Portugal, is gathered.

The digital edition of Healthy Routes, has been presented in different international forums. For their contribution to incentivate the tourism of health, facilitating the knowledge of the water as source of health, it was accepted as communication in the World Congress of Thermalism, that took place in October of 2002, in Budapest.

Healthy routes are a pioneer experience in internet being published from some time now by the website BuscaSalud.com in their bet to offer new sections in the environment of the Health. This initiative in digital format, include the support and the experience of the team of professionals of Termasworld.com, first electronic magazine of Thermalism and Thalasotherapy published in four languages.

Healthy Routes offer information regarding different places of tourist interest of Spain, under the healthy perspective of contributing to a better knowledge of the thermal culture, the benefits that a thermal cure procure to the organism and the effects of the therapies of the water, marine or miner-medicinal, to maintain, to recover the health or to improve our quality of life. This information is supplemented with the divulging of the local landscape, the gastronomy and the culture of the area.

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