Rome – The Italian Minister of Heritage and Culture and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, and the Mexican Minister of Tourism, Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding on tourism cooperation. The two met during a meeting at Palazzo Chigi between the President of the Council Matteo Renzi and the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. The document includes a series of initiatives to support the development of tourism flows between Italy and Mexico. In particular, it will: strengthen activities concerning cultural tourism, environmental tourism, and sports and luxury tourism; promote the image of the two countries through seminars, conferences, conventions and exhibitions on tourism; stimulate tourism flows through the dissemination of information materials on cultural events in Italy and in Mexico; support training programs for students in the tourism sector; and facilitate the movement of tourists by increasing flights to destinations of interest. (9Colonne)
