Sol Air and projecthonduras.com to Promote Social Tourism to Honduras
WASHINGTON, DC / July 7, 2003 / -- projecthonduras.com today
announced a joint venture with Sol Air airlines designed to
promote "social tourism" to Honduras. As part of the arrangement, Sol
Air will offer deeply discounted fares to individuals attending the
fourth annual Conference on Hnoduras in Copan Ruins, Honduras.
The conference, scheduled for October 24-26, 2003, will bring
together representatives of more than 60 organizations, companies,
churches, and universities working on projects in the areas of
education, healthcare and community building.
"This program is a milestone for both Honduras and the Conference on
Honduras", said Marco Caceres, cofounder of projecthonduras.com. "It
will fuel the growth of the conference by making it more affordable
for conferees to travel to Honduras, and by doing so it will
encourage more individuals and groups to get involved in a wide array
of volunteer efforts to help the Honduran people."
Under the new program, the price of a roundtrip ticket to Honduras
via Miami, Florida, will be reduced by 50%, to $200.00. The roundtrip
fare from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, will also be cut by half, to
$250.00 per person. These prices will take effect immediately and
remain active through September 30, 2003. They will apply to
registered conferees traveling during October 18-30, 2003.
The special fares will make it more attractive to fly to Honduras
from the Miami and Dallas-Ft. Worth areas. They will also make it
cost-effective for people flying from locations farther north such as
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC to switch to Sol
Air for the second leg of their journey to Honduras.
"Honduras relies a great deal on humanitarian support provided by
tens of thousands of private citizens participating in everything
from medical brigades and housing construction teams to faith-based
missions and student exchanges", said Caceres. "We want to work with
government and industry to identify specific ways to expand this
social tourism sector, and our partnership with Honduras' national
airline is an excellent model."
The Conference on Honduras series is the third part of
projecthonduras.com's three-step strategic plan to build an Internet-
based model of development for Honduras. During the past five years,
the volunteer group has created an online portal at
http://www.projecthonduras.com which serves as a clearinghouse of
information on Honduras and has established a growing international
network of people communicating via listserv forums on ways to help
the country.
The concept behind projecthonduras.com and the Conference on Honduras
is based on the belief that developing countries like Honduras need
to tap all of their "human capital" around the world in order to
break their cycles of poverty and find ways to implement solutions to
persistent problems. The Internet now provides the ability to quickly
and cost-effectively organize masses of people and channel their
experience, talents, and expertise into specific areas of need in a
country.
For information on Sol Air, visit http://www.solair.net or call 1-866-
4SOLAIR.
For further information on the Conference on Honduras 2003, please e-
mail hondopost.....com or go to
http://www.projecthonduras.com/conference. The conference will be
presented by projecthonduras.com (http://www.projecthonduras.com) and
sponsored by Special Missions Foundation, Inc.
(http://www.specialmissions.org)
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