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PARK DIRECTORADE

Press release
PR.RPU. P001.R01 - 2011-11-12 - No. 113

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The DGNP implements new model of routes for tourist vessels in Galapagos.

The Galapagos National Park Service invited the tour operators for a meeting about to re order-routing the new model of cruising itinerary.

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Since 2007 the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS) is in a restructuring of tourism management mechanisms. With advice from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (ECOLAP-USFQ) and the support of Conservation International (CI-Ecuador), the GNPS has a new management tool called the Visitor Management System, known SIMAVIS the acronym. .

During the period of work for the implementation of SIMAVIS, has worked in various management aspects of site visits and visitors, which is redefining the acceptable load of Visitors (CAV) for each site visit and the itineraries of the waterway cruise ships, among other instruments made and in operation since the beginning of the process. .

The meeting held last November 11 in the city of Quito, was to reunite all the different operators and travel agencies that sell the operation navigable in the islands, with the technical team of the GNPS, in order to strengthen the process of information exchange and communication, ensuring a better understanding of the industry and their involvement in it.

From December 2009 to date, the management team of the tourist and ECOLAP GNPS has held successive meetings and workshops and individual sectors, covering all tourism operations. These meetings have been building new tourist routes considering both the requirements of management, conservation and quality of visited Web sites to visit, and the characteristics of logistics and tourism demand for the different operations.

The new visitation order involves ensuring compliance with the load numbers of visitors (CAV) visit sites under acceptable ranges of quality and protection of natural and cultural heritage present in them, avoiding overloading and concentration of visitors in these unique places in the archipelago.

For this, the tour boats have a schedule previously agreed between the parties, which distributes visits to different sites, considering a repetition rate of 15 days site. This means that vessels may not visit the same place every week as they did until now, but it made every two weeks. This allows all the boats in the fleet sailed a chance to visit all the sites without having to bring the site to an overload condition of visitors. This does NOT mean that tourists have to compulsorily take a cruise of 15 days, but can also cruises of a week as the ships' itineraries include replacement of passengers at different airports at least once a the week.

Although many boats have been adding the new model during 2011, a total of 24, as agreed at previous meetings for the day February 1, 2012, date of renewal of patents tourist operation, all vessels Cruise waterways shall operate under the new requirements of model schedules. The approach of the end date of the commissioning process, encourages the celebration of such events to clear up any confusion about it.

This date marks a milestone for conservation and tourism management for the Galapagos National Park, because for the first time in history, with great effort by all sectors, it would provide technical parameters respect the management of visitors to tourist sites . This does not mean that management efforts end up here, as we will continue to closely monitor to resolve any unforeseen, and especially working with guides and tour operators, ultimately responsible for actually handling the technical measures implemented have a positive result on the quality of the experience and the maintenance of good conservation. .

Finally, we have to extend special thanks to all tour operators for their effort and cooperation with the management and conservation of our Natural Heritage of Humanity.

Prepared by Galapagos National ParkPublic Relations Process
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