SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Gto.- On Monday, Sep. 5, during the Award Ceremony of “VI Local Governments Best Practices 2015”, the Mayor of San Miguel, Ricardo Villarreal received the “Best Tourism Practices Award” (Mejores prácticas en Turismo) on behalf of the SMA municipality .
This recognition is made by an important magazine in México, called ‘Mayors of Mexico’ (Alcaldes de México). This national media has elected the best 12 mayors in 12 different categories, in order to promote the development of different industries in the country.
Villarreal declared that he is really happy to receive this important award, from the Minister of Interior, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong. Meanwhile, Osorio Chong declared: “it is important that government practices are rewarded, so winners can become an example to follow for other municipal governments.”
Mayors of Mexico recieved important awards about best practices developed in their municipalities (Image: periodicocorreo.com.mx)
Ricardo Villareal underlined that: “tourism practices have helped San Miguel to become a successful vacation destination”.
He continued: “Among those practices are: the appointment of a Citizen Tourism Council, which consults all service providers and tourism business people to come up with a plural consensus, in which the authorities involve the private sector in important decisions”.
“On the other hand, the infrastructure created seeks to boost the economy and improve the tourism industry with better services and facilities. In that sense, our government has developed a series of projectss, such as parking lots, Visitor Services Centers, new national and international flights to and from the Guanajuato International Airport, communication with our business partners, along with other works with the purpose to receive a larger number of visitors each and everyday”, Villareal added.
“This magazine is recognizing all this work and is an incentive to keep up with the hard work to build a better city for visitors, but especially for all citizens that live in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende” concluded the Mayor.
Source: http://periodicocorreo.com.mx
