{"id":1923,"date":"2009-04-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/04\/el-ostional-apuesta-al-turismo\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:53:29","slug":"el-ostional-apuesta-al-turismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/el-ostional-apuesta-al-turismo\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ostional apuesta al turismo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Prensa has published a piece on our <a href=\"http:\/\/archivo.laprensa.com.ni\/archivo\/2009\/abril\/25\/noticias\/regionales\/323777.shtml\">sea kayak training program<\/a> (in Spanish), designed to promote eco-tourism in San Juan del Sur and Ostional.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this program is to train young people to become eco-tourism guides, taking advantage of their region&#8217;s natural beauty (and the kayaks we&#8217;ve furnished with the help of USAID) to launch their own micro-businesses and educate people about the mangroves and coastal ecosystems which are home to birds and other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Collado Vargas, a former fisherman who has joined our program, was quoted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pues esto lo estamos haciendo en momentos que la situaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica de El Ostional es muy dif\u00edcil, y al menos tenemos la esperanza de ganar algo de dinero, y que con esta oferta vengan m\u00e1s turistas a El Ostional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The economic climate in Ostional is hard, he explains, and this sea kayaking opportunity means a chance to to earn some money and bring more tourists to Ostional.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Prensa has published a piece on our sea kayak training program (in Spanish), designed to promote eco-tourism in San Juan del Sur and Ostional. The goal of this program is to train young people to become eco-tourism guides, taking advantage of their region&#8217;s natural beauty (and the kayaks we&#8217;ve furnished with the help of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-environmental-conservation","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}