The Cabildo of Lanzarote, a prominent promoter of the Margullar heritage and tourism project, will receive this Wednesday in Ourense, Galicia, the Recognition of International Tourism Cooperation 2022 granted by Asicotur (International Association for Tourism Cooperation). The institutional event will take place in the afternoon at the Expourense facilities, within the framework of the Conference that Asicotur is organizing there these days.
The president of the Lanzarote institution, María Dolores Corujo, has thanked the association in advance for this implicit support for the heritage policy deployed by the Cabildo, "through numerous projects, many of them of an interdisciplinary nature, which allow us to collaborate in the diagnosis and prevention of overexploitation to find the best ways towards a sustainable economic activity in Lanzarote and La Graciosa," she commented this morning.
And in the specific case of Margullar, María Dolores Corujo clarifies that Asicotur's International Recognition "comes to endorse the work we are jointly seeking in Atlantic territories to design a submarine tourism and heritage product that promotes the conservation and protection of the entire Macaronesia".
Cooperation for progress
The Cabildo of Lanzarote receives the Recognition of International Tourism Cooperation 2022 granted by Asicotur in its capacity as leader (Head of the project figure) for the development of Margullar, explains the Councilor for Historical Heritage of the Island Corporation, Ariagona González, who points out the need to extend this award also to the project partners, "because we are talking about an international cooperation initiative in the face of the need to conserve the valuable natural and cultural marine heritage that we share in the Macaronesia, especially in terms of tourism development".
The councilor has explained some of the initiatives carried out in recent months around Margullar, including exhibitions, meetings, underwater work or the launch of the El Río Interpretation Center, in La Graciosa, the first infrastructure on underwater archeology in the Canary Islands.
Along with the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the partners of Margullar are the Direção Regional da Cultura dos Açores - Fundo Regional de Ação Cultural Azores, ADCA - Agência para o Desenvolvimento da Cultura nos Açores Azores, the Secretaria Regional da Turismo e Cultura Direção Regional da Cultura Madeira, the Associação Comercial e Industrial do Funchal Câmara de Comércio e Industria da Madeira, the Instituto do Património Cultural Cabo Verde, and the Direction du Patrimoine Culturel du Sénégal.
"Margullar's actions continue so that, in addition to admiring the precious seabed of the transnational cooperation space, tourists who practice diving can get closer to our heritage, history and culture," they conclude from the Cabildo.
