UNWTO Secretary General Makes Working Visit to Mexico

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The Secretary of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, Miguel Torruco Marqués, announced that the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, is on a working tour of various parts across Mexico. 

The UNWTO leader, who accepted the invitation extended by the Minister of Tourism to visit Mexico, arrived accompanied by his wife, Tamar Bakradze; Mikheil Ninua, the organization's financial and administrative director, and his wife Sophio Kalandarishvili; George Shanidze, advisor to the Secretary General, and his wife Elena Guntsadze; Ion Vilcu, director of the UNWTO Affiliate Members Department; and Esther Ruíz, of the Regional Department for the Americas. 

Secretary Torruco Marqués officially welcomed him at Mexico City's International Airport. During the visit, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will receive Zurab Pololikashvili at the National Palace, accompanied by his entourage.  

Among the activities to be carried out by this high-level representation of the UNWTO are their participation in a Special Session of the Inter-American Travel Commission (Citur) of the Organization of American States (OAS), to which Secretary Torruco Marqués invited them in his capacity as President; and in a lunch with members of the national tourism sector. They will also visit various points of interest in the city. 

They will also travel to Mérida, Yucatán, where they will give the starting signal to mark the beginning of Operation Summer 2021 of the Tourist Services Corporation "Green Angels" of the Ministry of Tourism. 

In that state they will visit the archeological sites of Uxmal and Chichén Itzá, as well as the Magical Towns of Maní and Izamal. 

The last stop on their working tour will be Quintana Roo, where they will attend the "Tourism Sustainability Lecture: Architect Miguel Quintana Pali" at Xcaret. In this region they will also visit some of its attractions.