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Meeting with the executives and businessmen delegation of the Chilean Construction Industry Chamber.
Work Meeting with CChC As part of a mission of understanding more about realestate development in this country, a delegation of directors and businessmen from the Chilean Construction Industry Chamber (CChC) visited AMDETUR on March 26 in order to learn about this activity and its relationship to the tourism industry. Our visitors were Jorge Mas Figueroa, First Vice President of the CChC; Sergio Torretti Costa, Second Vice President of the CChC and Director of INVASCO, a real-estate management and development company; Juan Ignacio Silva Alcalde, President of the Interamerican Construction Industry Federation and Executive President of DESCO, a real-estate, engineering and construction firm; Carlos Molinare Vergara, Chairman of the CChC Committee on International Affairs and Directing President of Claro Vicuña y Valenzuela, an urban road building, housing and high-rise construction company; Javier Hurtado Cicarelli, Manager of Studies for CChC; and Juan Pablo Glasinovic Vernon, CChC Director of International Affairs.
Presentation of the “My Roots” Program Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera introduced a program called “My Roots,” a strategy for attracting tourism by Mexicans residing in the United States. The purpose of this effort is to increase the tourist inflow to Mexico City by between 35 and 40 percent, which would be a little over 400,000 people a year, and to increase the average stay to four nights, which would result in an increase in hotel occupancy and economic flows from tourism to the nation’s capital. AMDETUR was present at this event, which was also attended by the President of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Albert Zapanta, other chairmen of various chambers and associations, and industry representatives from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Texas.
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Miguel Ángel Mancera, head of Mexico City government, introducing the “My Roots” program to increase tourism to the nation’s capital
Second meeting of the CMIC-AMDETUR Mixed Commission on Tourism in 2014 During the second meeting of the Mixed Commission on Tourism formed by CMIC (the Mexican Construction Industry Chamber) and AMDETUR, on April 4, members followed up on joint projects that had been agreed upon by the two organizations. Among these were the fine-tuning of details for the presentation of courses of interest to tourism industry participants in the near future. Members also confirmed that the CMIC will hold its National Transportation and Communication Meeting on June 5-6, as it does every year, to deal with the most important events and trends facing the tourism industry and to discuss and propose strategies and viable solutions for strengthening it, and expediting projects in the field of communications and transportation. This year’s meeting will be held in Morelia, Michoacán.
Gonzalo Maqueda, Executive President of AMDETUR, with Roberto Calvet, Executive Coordinator of Tourism for the CMIC.
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