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The technical sessions closed with good participation 'Wines, Landscape and Sustainability: the keys to responsible wine tourism' celebrated the past 22 y 23 of November with the promotion of the wine tourism municipality of Saint Brigid and the financing of the Primary Sector Counseling, Food sovereignty and water security of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria in collaboration with the Gran Canaria Wine Route Association, within the program 'Saint Brigida with Wines'. They also cooperated Regulatory Council of the Protected Designation of Origin of Gran Canaria Wines, the Spanish Association of Spanish Wine Cities (ACEVIN) and the Island Agency for Rural Development of Gran Canaria (HELP Gran Canaria).
At the inauguration, the first deputy mayor and the councilor of Rural Development of the Santa Brigida Town Hall, Jose Armengol, remembered that the germ of Gran Canaria Wine Route emerged during the days of 'Saint Brigida with wines' held in the 2017.
Miguel Hidalgo, counselor of Primary sector, Food Sovereignty and Water Securityto the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, He pointed out that “tourism is an economic resource that drives the rural world”.
Finally, Sandra Armas Judge, president of the Gran Canaria Wine Route, cited the young woman's “desire to learn” Gran Canaria Wine Route, and that is why days like these are developed.
Matías Manuel González Hernández, doctor in ULPGC Applied Economics and director of Instituto TIDES, focused its intervention on economic diversification in rural areas of the island of Gran Canaria, thanks to tourism.
During the days, others Spanish Wine Routes, protected by ACEVIN, explained how their commitment to sustainability, and enhancement of the respective territories and protected landscapes, is aligned with your wine tourism experiences. Among them, the Sierra de Francia Wine Route, through your manager Rubén de Arriba Rodríguez, the Bierzo Wine Route, with the presence of Cristina Klein Pérez, the Arribes Wine Route, represented by Liliana Fernández Pérez. He also presented a closer case, the one of Tacoronte-Acentejo, Santiago M. Barroso Castillo, technician of the Protected Designation of Origin of Tacoronte-Acentejo.
Completed the participatory days Juani Vega Artiles, technique of Gran Canaria Rural Development Agency (HELP Gran Canaria). At the closing, the acting president of the Protected Designation of Origin of Gran Canaria Wines, Pedro Suárez Rodríguez.
