Batopilas Shines in Las Vegas
The Travel Weekly Show in Las Vegas was a great success! – Leonel Hernandez, the mayor of Batopilas, spent the week of Feb. 14th to the 18th at the Travel Weekly show in Las Vegas, helping to promote the Copper Canyon region, and Batopilas in particular, as a destination within the canyons. We were in attendance with Ivan Fernandez, the Director of Tourist Development in Batopilas and photographer extraordinaire and Yolonda Norman de Fernandez, the owner of Amigo Trails, the only tour operator located inside the Copper Canyon. Above; Gloria Guevara, Secretary of Tourism in Mexico & Leonel Hernandez, mayor of Batopilas in the Copper Canyon of Mexico.
The show was a great success and we were able to provide information about the Copper Canyon to over 1,000 US travel agents and host agencies, as well as to other suppliers in Mexico. We were also able to attend many of the workshops and conferences being held there and learned a great deal about where the travel industry is headed for 2011.
A fantastic highlight of the conference was a beautiful luncheon held by the Mexico Tourism Department where Gloria Guevara, the Secretary of Tourism for Mexico, gave an insightful interview with Travel Weekly's Arnie Weissmann, about visiting Mexico, the safety about traveling here and the beautiful areas to explore. Statistics showing overall crime rates worldwide puts the USA in the number one position and Mexico in the number 12 position. For more statistics and information about safety in Mexico, please visit the Amigo Trails Is It Safe To Travel To Mexico page. At left; Gloria Guevara passing the Mexico booth where Yolonda Norman de Fernandez stands at the ready to provide information about the Copper Canyon.
Thanks go out to all those at the Mexico Tourism Board who helped us to arrange our booth there and the great information and help you all provided for us. Below; the entire Mexico Tourism booth participants. 
For more information about Batopilas, a silver mining village at the bottom of Batopilas Canyon inside the Copper Canyon, please visit the Batopilas Visitors Bureau website and don't forget that you can find great information on the Mexico Tourism Board website too that covers all of Mexico in general.
