Objectives To Promote Tourism
presented the Youth Travel Guide Mexico City, in order to make available over 900 thousand students are capital’s summer vacation, a varied list of sites and tourist options in the capital.
The guide can be found on facebook was prepared by members of the brigade “Angels Tour” as part of their contributions to the City of Mexico. It is divided into delegations to enable young people at first find the sights closer to home.
Through a mechanism similar to an tourist rally, attended by more than 2 000 young people, designed routes throughout the City, with the purpose of collecting information to and invite other kids to know.
They visited 250 tourist sites that are now recommended for young people so that others come to these places. To this list add the beaches that were opened this day in the city. The aim is to boost tourism among the youth and provide options for this summer, hours, services, costs, location and routes to arrive by public transport.
The director of the Institute of Youth in the Federal District (Injuve), Javier Hidalgo Ponce, presented the above guide as an additional contribution Summer Employment Program 2011, whose purpose is to promote tourism between the sector and link with hundreds of sites for low coverage are little known or wasted.
He said this action takes place within the framework of public policies that the Government of the City done to young people.
In Mexico City, the government recognizes that young people have the right to culture, to travel, because from this activity to acquire and extend their knowledge. The Law on Youth and the City provides in Chapter VII, the right to recreation.
Specified that just over 900 000 young people from the city on 13 June to 8 August will be on vacation, almost 450 000 are upper secondary education and the same, Higher Education.
We therefore consider it very important to provide alternatives to young people who take advantage of these holidays and to learn with the understanding that social activities, traveling, meeting can give another view, another perspective of life,” said Javier Hidalgo.
Also during the press conference released the results of a survey among 14 to 16 years of age, which showed that 43 percent often spend their free time on the street, 43 percent never go to the theater, 26 percent almost never goes to the movies.
With regard to tourist attractions in this city 40 percent said he knows of Xochimilco, 52 percent do not know Coyoacán, 64 percent did not know the Desierto de los Leones, 20 percent do not know the town and 44 percent do not know the sea .
This guidebook seeks to eventually, along with the beaches that were opened today, with this declaration of Magic Towns contribute to these 900 000 young people between 15 and 24 who are on vacation find alternatives for walking and especially alternative know the city, with the understanding that travel enriches “he said.