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GREEN ZONE
 

RIO SECRETO, BEST ECOLOGICAL EXCURSION OF MEXICO: WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS

 

 

Rio Secreto, natural reserve that shelters a set of caves that form a system of underground rivers, received last September 21 the Mexico & Central America's Leading Green Expedition that grants the World Travel Awards, which recognize the excellence of all the sectors of the tourist industry and of travel worldwide. These prizes have been described by the Wall Street Journal as the "Oscars" of the tourist industry worldwide, showing the best thing in every region of our planet. Rio Secreto is a natural reserve developed and operated down the highest criteria of sustainability from 2007, there the visitors estimate the majesty of Quintana Roo's aquatics underground and understands the importance of the conservation. With the aim to minimize the impact in the reserve, the operation is based on small groups and 2 guides and a photographer, who show proud details of speleologist of an easy way to the visitors besides guaranteeing the safety of the same ones. Another aspect that distinguishes from the operation of Rio Secreto is that by decision of the developers there have not been done electrical fixed facilities for the lighting of the grottos what the geological formations are respected that the nature has been late millenniums in constructing.

In Rio Secreto there are mapping almost 10 kilometers of tours, but still routes stay for discovering. More than 500 organizations of Mexico and Central America, they competed in 45 categories and Graham Cooke, president of the World Travel Awards, commented that "the trophy that Rio Secret and the rest of the winning obtained, is a symbol that they will be able to use and that will say to the public that they are acquiring a tourist product of excellence". In agreement with the organizers, this one was the final for North and Central America and that the great end of the World Travel Awards of this 2009 will carry out next November 8 in London little before initiating the famous World Travel Market where Rio Secreto also has possibilities of competing with the winners of the category of the rest of the world.