With the participation of tourism consortium "Lorca Workshop of Time" and ETNOTUR.
This is the third consecutive year that our city hosts these days.
June 18, 2012.
Councillor of Tourism of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, reported that on 20 and 21 June, will take place in Lorca the VI Regional Conference on Rural Tourism under the title "The Tourist Destination in Rural Areas".
Montiel explained that this is the third consecutive year that are held in Sun City, in 2010 after the organization of the conference deposited their trust in this town and reaffirmed last year, despite the proximity to earthquakes May.
The mayor of Tourism has indicated that this conference are driven from the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Murcia, with the collaboration of the National University of Distance Education and the city of Lorca.
This year in addition to collaboration in the organization, different agencies and companies such as the Tourist Consortium Lorca Workshop of Time, which it did in previous years; ETNOTUR, which manages a cooperative of businesses in rural areas, the Wine Route Bullas and Wine The Renas (Bodega del Rosario, DO Bullas)
Francisco Montiel stated that the aim of the conference is to bring everyone involved in this sector and examples of management tools from a multidisciplinary perspective so as to approach the reality of this sector and reflect together on problems and possibilities of rural tourism in the region.
The program will be developed as follows:
Wednesday 20
17:30 h.
Opening of the conference:
D.
Juan Angel Martinez Director of the Office of Marketing of Tourist Murcia.
D.
Alonso Francisco Jodar.
Mayor Hon.
Lorca City Council.
D.
Francisco Carreño Sandoval and D.
José Prudencio Riquelme Perea.
Directors of the Sixth Conference of Rural Tourism.
18:15 h.
Rural tourism in Spain in a changing environment.
Opportunities and challenges.
Juan Ignacio Pulido.
University of Jaén.
19:15 h.
Cultural Tourism and Rural Tourism Would you complementary or alternative destinations?
Juan Andrés Ibáñez Guilabert Vilches and Diana Murcia.
Department of Tourism.
City of Lorca.
Thursday 21
12:00 h.
"Lorca Open for Restoration".
Guided tour of Lorca Workshop of Time.
17:00 h.
Quality systems as a strategy for tourism promotion.
Ana Martinez Reche.
APROVÉLEZ Manager.
Rural Development Group of the County of Los Velez.
17:45 h.
Twinning between the natural parks of Sierra de María-Los Vélez and Altmühltal as a tool for economic diversification.
Dietmar Roth Detlev.
Chairman of the Governing Board of the Natural Park Sierra de María-Los Vélez.
18:30 h.
Etnotur: rural tourism management in co-op.
Jesus Lopez Molina.
Head of the Section of Rural Tourism Alimer.
19:15 h.
The wine routes as a tourist destination backbone of rural areas.
Francisco Carreño Sandoval.
President of the Bullas Wine Route.
20:00 h.
Closing.
Francisco Sánchez Montiel.
Councillor for Tourism, Hon.
Lorca City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca