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Travel and Tourism | 26 September, 2009 [ 09:27 ]

Tourism in protected areas generates US $150 millions per year, says Minister Antonio Brack


LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

Peru's protected areas generate more than US $150 million dollars in tourism revenues each year, and it is expected that this number could double during the next years if a responsible management of the ecosystem is encouraged, in order to give a better quality of life to local peoples, said the Environment Minister Antonio Brack.

"Tourism in protected areas produce US $150 millions annually, and this provides quality drinking water, electricity and other services for more than 2.5 million Peruvians,” said Brack, after a seminar organized by the United Nations Program for the Environment (UNEP).

He said that this tourism is increasing and that activities like bird watching are a good example of that in the route Chiclayo-Olmos-Yurimaguas.

“This tendency is likely to grow in the same direction,” said Garrido Lecca.

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