Peru amps up tourism campaigns in France and Korea

LivinginPeru.com February 28, 2011

Peru's agency for promoting tourism, PromPerú, will launch a campaign to promote tourism and exports in France and Korea in late March through early April, according to a resolution published Monday by the ministry of foreign trade and tourism.

PromPerú will hold the “Roadshow Francia” in Paris and Nice from March 28 to April 2. The event is aimed at tour operators and travel agents as a way to put a spotlight on Peru as a destination of choice.

PromPerú is also set to attend the “Sea Food & Hotel 2011” fair in the city of Seoul, Korea on April 26-29 in a bid to show and promote export offer of gourmet products from seven Peruvian companies.

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Promperu’s participation in this fair is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The seven companies will be able to display their gourmet food products in a shared premium stand financed by the sponsorship money.

The IDB will also host the conference “How to export food to Asia” on April 25 in Korea with the aim of identifying guidelines for meeting health and sanitary requirements in exporting food to Japan and Korea.

Peru has also recently announced that it will join forces with Columbia and Chile to jointly promote tourism in the three countries in numerous locations in Asia and the Middle East.

Peru suspends diplomatic relations with Libya

February 23, 2011 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES

The government suspended diplomatic ties with Libya today, aiming to underscore its protest against the repression imposed by Lybia’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

“Peru strongly protests against the repression unleashed by the dictatorship of Muammar Al-Qadhafi against the people who are demanding democratic reforms to change the government which has been led for 40 years by the same person,” President Alan García said.

Garcia said that Peru will ask the UN Security Council to establish a no-fly zone over Lybia to prevent the use of the country’s warplanes against the population.

Peru is the first country to cut ties with Lybia in the current repression of protests in Lybia against Gaddafi’s 42-year regime.

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El estudio del Perú ha resultado todo un reto y a su vez una experiencia apasionante . El análisis de su compleja configuración física y de su situación política, económica, social y militar nos permite la constatación de grandes avances pero a la vez de importantes desequilibrios. La gran mejora del país en el ámbito económico resulta indiscutible y ofrece un panorama alentador. Las políticas macroeconómicas puestas en marcha en la última década han permitido superar la situación de inestabilidad endémica que caracterizaba al país. No obstante, persisten importantes debilidades institucionales y sociales, así como una distribución desigual de la riqueza y de los recursos, que se materializan en la existencia de severas bolsas de pobreza y problemas de seguridad interior, especialmente en el tema de la guerrilla y el narcotráfico.

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