Municipality of Arequipa awards the best adventure tourism tour operators of Arequipa

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

-Municipalidad provincial de Castilla

-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)