2010/04/05

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON TOURISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO

 
As a tour guide in rio  it´s required in my profession that  I participate in conferences and seminars in the city of  Rio  and other states of Brazil , I'm always up to date  on what is happening in the Tourism Industry nationally and worldwide  this seminar happened to be in  Rio de Janeiro

 
The  seminar was held  in a nice and large Auditorium inside the Fundação Getúlio Vargas
and the speakers talked about various topics including main challenges for developing sustainable tourism in Rio from the  view point of local Government 
 
 
 
Youcheng  from China talked about destination marketing the main topic was Achieving succes through Collaboration and networking

 
Ian F.Wilkinson and his wife Marina  talked about the role of only one bussiness relations and networks in the tourism performance  
 
 
 
During this  seminar they had a full day tour and chose me as their tour guide  so we went to visit the  Taunay waterfall inside   the Tijuca Forest Park located in the heart of Rio de Janeiro It is considered the largest urban forest in the all world this  picture was taken inside the park in front of the Cascatinha , a beautiful waterfall .
 
 
we visited  Christ the Redeemer and my guestes took this nice picture with a stunning view of the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and the Lake Rodrigo de Freitas
 




After visiting the statue we went to an amazing place called Gigóía´s Island  . It´s only accessible by boat but right  in the middle of Barra da Tijuca  . The Island has approximately 2.000 residents
 
 
everywhere we look in  this wonderful and wild Island we can see different  species of birds , crabs and even  caymans  !

after this nice and pleasant tour we went to a Restaurant located up the hill to eat a delicious seafood brought in crock pot with gives a better taste to the dish .

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