Tourism Columbia expected to grow with new Presidency

Friday, July 29, 2022

Before the worldwide health emergency, Colombia was admired with travelers and digital nomads visiting Bogota, Cartagena and Medellin, with a record-setting 4.5 million visitors in 2019. After the pandemic, global tourism has progressively rebounded, touching 77 percent of the levels of 2019 in the first quarter of this year.

There’s a bigger potential of alteration forthcoming for Colombia; one that could position its tourism industry on a route to become a prototype of inclusivity, fairness and sustainability in the area. On August 7, Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, and the first Afro-Colombian vice president, Francia Marquez, will take charge.

The most diverse government to lead Colombia comprises the first Afro-Colombian envoy to the United States – engineer and conservational spearhead Luis Gilberto Murillo and social frontrunner Guneywya or Leonor Zalabata Torres from the native Arhuaco community, as Colombia’s ambassador to the US.

However, the upcoming new government’s top precedence is also extraordinary, which is moving away from an extractive oil and gas production, which is Colombia’s chief export, and embracing the surroundings and preservation as the main engine of economy. This means focusing on nature, culture and community-based tourism as part of the evolution to a circular economy, organized by means of a lens of social integrity, as per government plan.

There are a lot of expectations on Colombia growing to encounter this significant moment, taking its tourism industry toward a low carbon, community-based and reasonable future.

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