The Secretary of Tourism of the Province of Mendoza, Luis Böhm, visited Malargüe to attend the Snow Festival and spoke with remarkable optimism about the winter season that has just begun. The year began well for the province, high occupancy in the capital city and the peaks hundred percent in most of the days of January and February in San Rafael and Malargüe, marked optimism in the public and private sector. Harvest was as excellent siemrpe let alone Easter weekend and the Bicentennial, when the province was full of tourists and demand must be covered with temporary shelters, regiments and even exhausting the list of family homes enabled. After the promotional activities carried out since May in Chile and in several provinces, the Ministry of Tourism during June and July worked hard for the winter season. In May and June have been inspected centers sky, technically reviewing the status of the lifts and making all relevant audits in the snow parks in the province. We have also conducted inspections in lodging and dining venues, Böhm said. The official said that since his administration seeks to promote snow “not only for skiers but for those who like to play or simply watch the beautiful snowy landscapes that our province has to offer.” In addition, the official said that there are high expectations for this season made that Las Lenas, one of the two centers of the province sky, has snow. So, this is again a privilege to Mendoza and is expected to last until September season. As part of the festivities the governor of the province, Celso Jaque, expressed optimism for the growth of investment and sector numbers, even in 2009 with a strong global crisis, in addition to being the province relating to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to put it as an example of growth in the meetings industry in announcing the creation of the new Ministry of Tourism. If one considers this as a tourism product that relates to wine and gastronomy, in recent years has been one of the fastest growing and is also one of the sectors that has been reversed. We must continue working to further fortaleciendo- Jaque said.
