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99 days from total solar eclipse of December 14, the Government chose to modify its campaign to attract tourists to the Araucanía Region, where the phenomenon will have more visibility and duration.
The seremi of the General Secretariat of Government (Segegob), Pia Bersezio, pointed to The Mercury than “we are not going to make any kind of invitation to national or foreign tourists to come to the region“As was done actively until before the arrival of the coronavirus, when local businessmen expected to host at least one million people.
“We do not want to get ahead of ourselves in assumptions, because the pandemic is very dynamic. And just as we advance in deconfinement measures, we can go back “, he recalled, so the focus of the campaign now is only publicize the attractions of the area regardless of the phenomenon.
Bersezio explained that “we want to put the issue on the table in our region, nationally and internationally, but it is not an invitation for people to come to witness the eclipse here, but an opportunity to show that La Araucanía exists and that it has natural, cultural and traditional beauties, so that, when the pandemic passes, they come to visit us. “
Despite the change from the Government, the president of the hoteliers of the region, Aníbal Gutiérrez, He advanced that “we have been in training and our establishments are in conditions to function” under the health protocols, although they expect less public and mainly national.
“As long as the pandemic does not subside, we do not know how many people will be able to reach”, he specified.
