Puerto Penasco, Sonora, is the destination that is growing quickly nationally which shows that tourism is an engine of economic development must become an engine of social development, said the Tourism Secretary Rodolfo Elizondo Torres. When making a working trip to Sonora, accompanied by Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo, the Secretary announced that FONATUR and the Undersecretary of Tourism Operation SECTUR, in coordination with state and local government, develop a draft reorganization to serve Peñasco to implement actions to ensure orderly growth and the provision of services that people need.
During a meeting with business owners and tourism developers, Elizondo Torres said the Interministerial Commission on Tourism will conduct a cross-government work to strengthen the tourism as a tool for social development. “From economic growth would do little if we do not create tourism infrastructure for social development,” said the head of Tourism who pledged that by the end of 2004, President Vicente Fox visited this municipality located in the Sea of ??Cortez. Go refresh, try puerto penasco fishing
A Puerto Peñasco get one million 600 thousand tourists a year mainly by road and have generated billions of dollars in the last 10 years with their respective dripping over taxes. Ramon Martinez, mayor of Puerto Peñasco, said 10 years ago its inhabitants depended on fishing and are now seeing the benefits that tourism has been raising the living standards of people and creating jobs, but asked for support from Federal Government and State governments to have infrastructure and continue to grow. For his part, Gov. Eduardo Bours said that the great merit of growth of this port, so its residents have had the vision that it was more than the spring season, such as tourism developers who have played and are doing very good business.
The Governor and the Secretary signed the agreements for the reallocation of resources for tourism development in Sonora and the professionalization of tourism, the exhibition also toured seven tourism development projects taking place in this destination.