Confirmed the arrival of cruises in Puerto Penasco

The shipping company Holland America confirmed the arrival of cruises to Puerto Penasco, as part of the project that the Committee of Promotion to the Tourism presented.

This port will be the first one in the country and has had a very important advance with the visit of shipping companies to the place where the terminal will be built.

We are talking about the shipping companies Holland America and Carnival Corporation, represented by Simon Souwes and Javier Gallardo, respectively, as well as Arturo Musi, VP of AMEPAC, who inspected the area where this terminal will be built, along with the Committee of Promotion to the Tourism and the Major of PP, Heriberto Renteria.

Possible tours to this zone were also analyzed, as the Visitors’ Center of the Reserve of the Biosphere of the Pinacate, as an option to offer to the nautical tourists.

Simon Souwes, whom 14 months ago approved the inclusion of Guaymas in the itineraries of cruises, confirmed that there will be another Sonoran destination within the trips of Holland America, which is Puerto Penasco.

The project will be finished in 5 years and it will rely on the first arrival of cruises in 3 years, this is in order to have the propitious conditions so it is supported as a route of cruises to the Sea of Cortes, always taking care of the environment, for which we will take our time to keep a sustainable tourism, so we grow in promotion, in new destinations and new ways of tourism, but supporting the ecological balance.

Salido Pablovich said that to start, it is a cruise of 14 days that will depart from San Diego to Puerto Penasco, coming later to San Carlos and ending in the same starting point.

However, there will be a cruise of 7 days, that will have as a departure and arrival port, Puerto Penasco

This commitment of the shipping companies performs supreme importance for Sonora and Puerto Penasco, it is a sample of the work of the Government of the State of Sonora, headed by Eduardo Bours, to fight the economic world recession and the interest that this Government has taken with the topic of the tourism as a priority for the improvement of the economy of the State, said Salido Pavlovich.