By the Colca Specialist
The
Municipality of Arequipa awarded the best adventure tourism tour operators of
Arequipa.The awards ceremonial was part of the event called “AQP XTREME SPORTS
HALL OF FAME 2013”, event that was considered by the specialists as the event
of the year 2013.
Since there
are hundreds of travel agencies in Arequipa and 90 percent are brokers and not
real tour operators, the main goal of the ceremonial was to introduce the best
adventure tourism tour operators to the entire world and to award those whose
efforts in favor of the development of ecotourism, sustainable tourism, and
adventure tourism are more than outstanding.
The
ceremonial took place in the Municipality Palace of Arequipa and it gathered
the crème of the crème of the arequipenian adventure tourism world: tour
operators, promoters, authorities, among others.
At the end
of the ceremonial the representatives of the tourism department of the
Municipality of Arequipa presented the three inductees to the AQP XTREME SPORTS
HALL OF FAME 2013, promoters of adventure tourism and sportsmen who are
considered as icons of adventure sports and tourism in Arequipa such as the mountainbiking record
killer Guillermo Carlos RendónCuadros .
During the
ceremonial special awards were given to a rescue team unit of the national
peruvian police and to the mountainclimbing guide of the year: Mr EloyCacya, a
mountainclimbing guide from Colca Valley who was declared as mountainclimbing
guide of the year thanks to his successful work done in the rescue of Ciro Castillo Rojo , as student lost in the walls of Colca Canyon (found dead) and
thanks to the rescue of the body of Oliver Toledo, a student who got lost in a
religious pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Chapi.
The awarded
ones were the following:
THE BEST ADVENTURE
TOURISM TOUR OPERATORS
-
ZarateAventuras (Mountainclimbing)
Manager
:Sr.CarlosZárate.
- Colca Trek. (Trekking)
Manager: Mg Vlado Soto.
- Naturaleza Activa (Mountainbiking)
Manager: Sr. Eduardo Sánchez Bendezú.
- Expediciones y Aventuras.(River Rafting)
Manager: Sr Gustavo Rondón Alvarez.
- Colca Horse El Herraje (Horseriding in
Colca Valley)
Manager: Srta Sofía Solange Málaga Cáceres.
- Inka Expeditions
(School Ecoturism Fam Trips)
Manager: Sr Gonzalo Ruy Zevallos Portilla.
- La Casa de Mauro. (River Rafting in Majes
River)
Manager: Sr Maurilio AmilcarZuñiga Medina.
THE BEST ADVENTURE
TOURISM PROMOTERS
-Lic. Humberto Huamaní Luque.
-Ing. Mauricio de Romaña Bustamante.
-Antrop. Pablo Masías Núñez del Prado.
-Sr. Guillermo Carlos Rendón Cuadros.
-Sr. Maurilio Amílcar Zúñiga Medina.
-Sr. Miguel ÁngelFernández Cayetano
-Sr. Walter Valderrama.
-Sr- Gonzalo Ruy Zevallos Portilla.
-Sr. Manuel
Vera Mamani.
-Sra Sofia
Chislla Callo.
THE BEST ADVENTURE
TOURISM EVENTS
-Primera Expedición Peruano-Europea de
Canotaje de Altura DISCOVERY (Colca Rafting)
-Carrera de Ciclismo más alta del Mundo
INKABIKE 2003 (Dircetur).
-Carrera de Ciclismo Sobredosis de
Adrenalina 2004 (Dircetur).
-Raid de
Campeones Mallku Jaqe 2005 (Dircetur).
-Raid de Ciclismo Uniendo las Maravillas
del Mundo Colca-Cotahuasi (Municipalidad Provincial de Caylloma-Autocolca).
SPECIAL AWARDS
-Eloy Cacya
Cárdenas declared as MOUNTAINCLIMBING GUIDE OF THE YEAR 2013.
-Unidad de Salvamento y Rescate de Alta Montaña
USAM.
THE BEST ECOTURISM
TV PROGRAMS
-Programa
de TV El Caminante.
-Programa de TV Pureq Runa.
-TV UNSA.
-Programa de TV Reportaje al Perú.
THE BEST
MUNICIPALITIES OF THE YEAR 2013
-Municipalidad distrital de Cayma
-Municipalidad distrital de Yanahuara
-Municipalidad distrital de Selva Alegre
-Municipalidad distrital de Mollebaya
-Municipalidad distrital de Quequeña
-Municipalidad distrital de Yarabamba
-Municipalidad Provincial de Islay
-Municipalidad distrital de Huanca
-Municipalidad distrital de Lluta
-Municipalidad distrital de Yura
-Municipalidad distrital de Sibayo
-Municipalidad Provincial de Cotahuasi –La
Unión
-Autocolca.
THE INDUCTEES TO
THE AQP XTREME SPORTS HALL OF FAME 2013
-Maurilio Amilcar Zuñiga Medina.(River Rafting)
-Gustavo
Rondón Alvarez.(River Rafting and Kayaking)
-Guillermo Carlos Rendón Cuadros.(Mountainbiking)
