Listos,
I received a message on a few days ago from my good
friend Flavia Cueva of the Hacienda San Lucas
(http://www.haciendasanlucas.com) just outside of
Copan Ruinas. She advised me that she will be
offering a 10% discount on lodging to individuals
attending the Conference on Honduras 2005
(http://www.projecthonduras.com/conference), and she
will also provide transportation to/from town.
Hacienda San Lucas is one of 19 businesses that are
pioneering the developing of our Social Tourism
Program (see
http://www.projecthonduras.com/socialtourismprogram).
One of the goals of the Social Tourism segment of the
conference is to establish a dialogue with
representatives of the tourism industry in Honduras to
see how best to create an architecture for this
program... an architecture that is simple, efficient,
and easy to maintain.
For conferees to obtain discounts from certain
businesses (hotels, restaurants, giftshops, parks,
etc.) in the Copan Ruinas during the 4-5 days they
will be in town should not be a particularly difficult
exercise. All they have to do is say... "Hey, I'm
attending the Conference on Honduras. Do I qualify
for a discount at your establishment?"
In cases such as Hacienda San Lucas, Don Udo's
hotel/restaurant, Twisted Tanya's restaurant, Casa de
Todo giftshop, Posada Real de Copan hotel, and Hedman
Alas bus service, receiving a discount should not be
problematic since the managers/owners are familiar
with the conference and have already offers to provide
discounts to conferees.
The goal of the Social Tourism segment of the
conference is to see how we expand this
informal/personal system that we are creating in Copan
Ruinas and apply it the Honduras as a whole without
losing too much of the "personal element". In an
ideal world, all social tourists (not just conferees)
visiting Honduras throughout the year should receive
some sort of price break as an incentive to keep
returning to Honduras and to spread the word amongst
their friends, relatives, and colleagues.
I want Honduras' tourism industry to appreciate just
what social tourists mean both to the Honduran economy
AND to the development of the country's
underprivileged class and social conscience.
Thanks,
Marco
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