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| Puerto Vallarta |
| November, 2007 |
Puerto Vallarta, among the Top Ten Destinations in 2007
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta - Photos by Jesus de Avila
In recent days, the American Association of Travel Agents (ASTA), made the announcement that Puerto Vallarta is one of the ten most popular destinations this summer. This was announceda long with the demographic data of the top agencies as to sales volume, mix of pleasure and corporate travel, number of employees and geographic location. A list of the most attractive vacation spots, both domestic (United States)and foreign during 2007 was reveil.
Cheryl Hudak, president of ASTA, said “travel agents constantly analyze travel tendencies, to be able to make the best recommendations to their clients, thus better satisfy their needs. We have identified a pattern that marks a desire of travelers to visit the most popular and more visited destinations. However, travel agents always seek to introduce their clients to destinations offering new experiences.”
Among the most popular international destinations are Puerto Vallarta, London, Rome, Paris, Cancun, Jamaica, Punta Cana, Florence, Venice and Frankfurt.
Overwhelming Success of Xiutla Ballet in
Rosas Moreno Theater Centennial Festivities
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta - Photos by Jesus de Avila
Puerto Vallarta's Municipal Folkloric Ballet "Xiutla" performed to a packed house in the Rosas Moreno Theater in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. Xiutla was a special guest to the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the theater opening. It was a special present from the people and government of Puerto Vallarta.
 Lagos de Moreno’s Culture Department, chaired by Eduardo Mata, selected the Xiutla Ballet early this year to be part of the celebration, and issued the corresponding invitation. The program included the Choreographic Group Balanz from Guadalajara, a choir recital, our Xiutla, the Jalisco Symphony Orchestra and a mariachi concert as closing number.
Xiutla’s performance on stage was rewarded with a standing ovation and reaped expressions of admiration, such as “on stage they look so different!”, “but if they are only children!”, “they’re so young, and so professional!”; “I hope they come back soon!” among other expressions of recognition to our young dancers.
The show went on for two hours, and the audience enjoyed each of the numbers, and the colorful costumes, so carefully tailored by the ballet’s wardrobe specialists.
 Motivated by such an emotional response of the laguense audience, at the end of the show, Culture Director Eduardo Mata asked Xiutla Director Professor Barrios for an encore presentation the following day, to which, both Professor Barrios and the members of the ballet agreed. It is worth noting that the second night, the audience was even larger than the previous.
“It gives us a very pleasing sensation, to respond to Vallarta; every time we go out, to put the name of Vallarta high up, and carry the message from our authorities” Professor Barrios said.
The Xiutla has been invited to represent the state of Jalisco in the 22nd Regional Dance Festival to be held in Leon, Guanajuato, for 15 days starting September 9. Two guest states were selected this year: Sonora and Jalisco, and the organizing committee recommended the Xiutla to be the representative of Jalisco. “Which is a great honor to us” said Professor Barrios.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Pro-certification Council integrated
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
City Mayor Javier Bravo along with Social Organizations and City Authorities launched the Environmental Monitoring project as part of the tasks leading to Puerto Vallarta’s certification.
 With the clear support of entrepreneurial and social groups, this Tuesday City Mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal formed the Council for the Certification of Puerto Vallarta as a clean and sustainable municipality, with this group the mayor launched the environmental monitoring project as part of the actions in order to achieve this important goal.
During this Tuesday’s meeting, representatives of the various entities voiced their intention to join their efforts to strengthen these actions that will bring about substantial benefits to a harmonious and sustainable development of Puerto Vallarta, committing to work hand in hand with the government presided by mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal to an ideal environmental management of the destination.
The City Mayor, for his part, indicated that the basic task of this council is to join the efforts of the citizens and their government, achieving a solid compromise to the realization of this important project for Puerto Vallarta. The council should define the actions geared to obtaining the final certification of our city.
 This should also insure that the works involved will transcend the present administration, providing for a fund of resources to assure the viability of the project, since environmental monitoring allows its financing by federal, state and international environmentally oriented entities.
Within this meeting’s framework, Mr. José Luis Martínez Director of the Environmental Monitoring Verification Unit EMC2, gave the guidelines on which the Environmental Monitoring Project will embark in three stages: Environmental Compliance, regarding the diagnosis of administration and control by the city hall; Clean Municipality; and Sustainable Municipality, motivating civil participation towards an environmentally clean city.
A proposal for an environmental communication project, to be carried by the different local media and the city hall’s Social Communication Department was also presented along with the aforementioned tasks, as well as the inclusion of the Project for the Certification of Healthy Practices of the municipality, by the Ecology sub direction.
It is worth noting that the Environmental Monitor will evaluate five essential subjects geared at solid residues management, water management, air quality management, natural resources and urban infrastructure, based on the municipality’s organic and legal capabilities to deal with these questions.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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City Mayor submits ambitious projects for the city
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
In a meeting with the Minister of Tourism for the State of Jalisco, the state officer confirmed his interest in backing the touristic infrastructure works proposed by Javier Bravo’s government, which would reinforce the touristic image of Vallarta.
 With the backing of the state government, the administration headed by Javier Bravo Carbajal will seek to solidify a series of touristic infrastructure projects which will improve and strengthen our beach destination’s image.
It was with that goal in mind that Javier Bravo met last Friday with the State’s Tourism Minister, Aurelio López Rocha, they talked at length about this and other important projects whose crystallization they will jointly promote.
From the beginning, the State officer showed his interest in the plans the city mayor has been developing and he stated his commitment to obtain the necessary resources for those projects to come true for the betterment of the city.
During his talks with the head of SETUJAL, Bravo Carbajal made sure to inform him of the resources in the amount of 2 million pesos he obtained from the federal government in his recent visit to Mexico City, which added by the equal parts agreement with the state and city governments, will bring the figure to 6 million pesos to be applied to the planned projects.
Vallarta’s mayor brought to the table the possibility of using those funds towards the illumination of the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or towards the works of placing underground all the power lines and cables of the city’s north entrance sector, between the Buenaventura and the Rosita hotels.
 Another alternative could be to use them for the city center rescue works, enabling those works to include the remodelation of façades of a greater number of blocks than the 11 originally considered in its first stage.
On the other hand, mayor Javier Bravo, delivered a package of projects to the Tourism Minister, which López Rocha showed great interest in supporting, such as the enlargement of the boardwalk on its north end, from the Rosita Hotel to the Camarones stream, a length of 730 meters (slightly less tan half a mile).
There is also an ambitious project to convert the auditorium at the sports complex “Agustín Flores Contreras”, presently occupied by the basketball court, into courts for multiple uses for first rate sports matches and artistic shows; it would have a capacity of 3 to 5 thousand persons and underground parking for 240 vehicles.
Bravo Carbajal added that the above is in line with the goal of offering a site for the Pan-American Games of 2011 to be celebrated in Guadalajara with Puerto Vallarta as a sub-site for certain sports events. It will also strengthen Puerto Vallarta’s touristic offer as well.
Ludwig Estrada Vírgen, the Tourism regional director of SETUJAL, and Marcelo Alcaraz González, the city’s Director of Tourism and Economic Promotion were also present in the meeting with Aurelio López Rocha.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
Redoubling Efforts for Puerto Vallarta
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta - Photos by Jesus de Avila
City Mayor Javier Bravo urges his directors and collaborators to redouble efforts in favor of Puerto Vallarta during the presentation of strategies and working plans developed by the various city hall entities.
City mayor  Javier Bravo headed a meeting with the directors and officers of the present administration urging them to continue working hard for Puerto Vallarta.
During that session, the heads of various city hall’s entities presented part of the activities undertaken during the present administration as well as strategies and projects to be carried out by the different areas of the administration towards a greater development of this destination and the local families.
Among the achieved goals, the work done by the Municipal Sports Council stood out, since significant results were achieved by Vallarta athletes in national and international representations as a result of trainers’ skills courses, the launching of initiation to sports schools, summer courses, as well as through the betterment of the city’s infrastructure, promotion and sports development in our city.
The Direction of Public Municipal Services presented the results it achieved establishing strategies that allow it to better serve the citizenship. Actions such as the permanent clean-up programs of the federal zone, the collection of residues, the improvements of public spaces, the refurbishing of the tunnel and city’s vehicular bypass as well as the certification of clean beaches.
The  works of the clean up and sanitization of the city dump located at Colonia Magisterio, where important advances have been achieved in the control, pumping and evaporation of resulting liquids, the stabilization of slopes, biogas management, reordering of the deposit area, residues control, emergency cell and the construction of a perimeter wall, fully complying with the agreement signed between the city hall and the State’s Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development (SEMADES) stating November 30 as the deadline for these processes.
In the field of Public Works, it was announced that several cobble-stone works are presently underway as well as several repairs of streets and roads, such as the streets of 5 de Septiembre, 10 de Mayo and Veracruz, in the delegation of El Pitillal; Universo avenue, in the Educación district; Ricardo Flores Magón, in Las Juntas, and the sports complex “La Lija” in the district of Lomas del Calvario. There are also works protecting the banks of the rivers and streams such as El Contentillo and La Virgen, which are planned to be concluded by November.
There were also works such as the placement of gabions, the manual dredging of canals, as well as the general maintenance of the city; works in which the city has redoubled its efforts to better serve the citizenry as well as other works that will be announced officially in the coming days and which should benefit a larger number of Vallarta families.
 In the field of education, there have been grants of over 28 million pesos for this year; these stem from the participation of the three levels of government and the hard work of mayor Javier Bravo who has obtained programs such as Escuela de Calidad (or Quality School), benefitting 37 schools; Escuela Sana (or Healthy School), in 32 schools and the program PAREIB.
Moreover, an amount higher than 6 million pesos from resources generated solely by the city itself, has been invested in programs as Pinta tu Escuela (Paint your School), benefitting 125 grade schools; Adelante Educación (Forward with Education), Haz Deporte (Practice Sports!), Embellece tu Escuela (Beautify your School), Misiones Culturales (Cultural Missions), Capacitación y Actualización de Docentes (Teachers’ Skills Update Courses) and the support of educators in vulnerable zones; the construction of the Elementary School of the Volcanes district; the Secondary School in the district of Los Tamarindos, Ixtapa and the inclusion in the budget of the Ministry of Education;
Other entities showing results of their actions so far were, the Administration’s High Officer, Ecology, Social Comunication and the Treasury, among others, showcasing their working plan for better results for the community.
Finally, the city mayor acknowledged the commitment of his collaborators, inviting them to continue unifying their efforts for Puerto Vallarta.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
The City Mayor seeks to include PV projects in the Federal Budget
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta - Photos by Jesus de Avila
Among intense labor in Mexico City, thanks to the negotiations of the City Mayor, the Federal Tourism Ministry will grant the resources needed for the rescue of Vallarta’s City Center Rescue.
Within an intense Mexico City working agenda, City Mayor Javier Bravo met with federal officers and congressmen in order to obtain greater resources and the inclusion of various projects for the development of Puerto Vallarta in the federal budget for 2008.
 Aspart ofthose meetings, our city mayor met with federal congressmen Alfredo Barba Hernández, Javier Guerrero García, Secretary of Budgets and Public Accounts Commission, as well as with representative Octavio Martínez Vargas, president of the Tourism Commission, to whom he presented a series of major works and social and urban infrastructure projects for this destination; among them the Federación Avenue, the second tunnel to the city’s vehicular bypass; the enlargement of the Malecón (boardwalk by the water downtown) towards the east side, and the auditorium of multiple uses at the sports complex “Agustín Flores Contreras” among others, so that these may be included in the federal expenses budget for the next year.
By the same means, through negotiations by the city mayor Javier Bravo and the support of the State Government; the city mayor made official the participation of the federal government in the City Center Rescue Project, as obtained at his meeting with the coordinator of the Centros de Playa (Beach Centers) and Corazón de México (the Heart of Mexico), of the Tourism Ministry (Sectur), Marte Molina Garibald;, as well as Juan Carlos Arnau Ávila, director general of Regional Programs of Sectur, obtaining by these means a grant of 6 million pesos corresponding to this year and the confirmation of a three-sided participation of 90 million pesos to be applied to this project.
On this respect, Bravo Carbajal indicated that he found a good attitude to back these major projects, he will therefore meet with representatives of the InterAmerican Development Bank (BID) in his ongoing search for lobbying greater resources for the benefit of Puerto Vallarta and its citizenry.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
Municipal Government confident of achieving Environmental Certification
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Profepa (Environmental Protection Agency) recognizes the effort of the city mayor in favor of the environment, his administration will continue to work towards obtaining the certification as a Clean Tourist Destination.
 With the objective of analyzing the benefits, incentives and support granted by the National Environmental Monitoring Program to the public and private organizations, in recent days authorities of Profepa (Environmental Protection Agency) met with city mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal.
José de Jesús Becerra Soto, delegate of that entity in Jalisco, attended the meeting and explained that it is a system in which organizations submit voluntarily to a scheme of revisions and agree to execute action plans to allow for the correction of flaws, a better environmental performance as well as to reduce their impact and risks to ecosystems.
City mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal, pointed out that from the beginning, his administration works on the preservation and care for the environment, with actions that contribute to that effect, he added that the government he presides has set its goal on having the cleanest destination in the whole country carrying weekly campaigns focused on reaching this objective.
In the presence of the Subdelegate of Environmental Monitoring, Nayeli León Lizárraga; the Director of Municipal Public Services, Juan Pablo García Castillón and Rafael García de Quevedo Machain, Subdirector for the Envronment and Ecology; Bravo Carbajal informed of the joint efforts with entrepreneurial and prívate sector groups to achieve the environmental certification of the municipality in its preliminary stage and to be carried out through the ‘Municipio Limpio’ program, promoted by Profepa.
Becerra Soto recognized the interest of the city mayor of Vallarta in working towards the ‘Destino Turístico Limpio’ (Clean Tourism Destination) recognition granted by Profepa, once the municipality obtains its environmental certification, a goal on which the municipal authority has placed all its efforts.
As for the National Environmental Monitoring Program, García Castillón made it clear that the fundamental subjects to be addressed would be the city dump, the city’s slaughterhouse and the general garbage treatment in homes and businesses. As for garbage handling, mechanisms to reduce the quantity of refuse produced by businesses by means of abstaining from consuming certain products will be proposed.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
Cleanup actions Boost Efforts
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Through the programs “Vallarta Limpio” (Clean Vallarta) and “Sábados para Vivir Mejor” (Saturdays for a BetterLife), City mayor Javier Bravo awarded recognitions and showed satisfaction on the achievements and participation of more tan a hundred districts or “colonias” visited during the first nine months of the administration.
Acknow ledging the effort of the various municipal entities and the local community in the clean up campaigns “Sábados para Vivir Mejor”(Saturdays for a Better Life), and “Vallarta Limpio” (Clean Vallarta; this Saturday the city mayor Javier BravoCarbajal, headed the delivery of diplomasto people who have enthusiastically participated in the activities in around one hundred “colonias” or districts.
 “Today we have surpassed the figure of one hundred “colonias” in just nine months, but, above all, it is the satisfaction of finding the good reaction of the neighbors, schools, other organizations, who have participated with great enthusiasm in the cleanup jobs, and this fills us with such energy as to keep the government moving ahead”, the mayor of Vallarta assured in his speech.
Accompanied by Aleyda Isabel Bravo Carbajal, President of the DIF System (Family Integral Development), City Hall employees and officers, Bravo mentioned that both programs are among the most important for the city’s government, since one of the main goals of his administration is for Vallarta to become the cleanest touristic city in all of Mexico, something that will be achieved with the participation of all.
At the same time, he stated that said programs will continue and the efforts will be redoubled so that the ”colonias” in our destination will be in better conditions, the campaigns will be permanent and will bring about benefits to all the inhabitants of Puerto Vallarta.
“I am very pleased to hear the voices of the children and of all the townsfolk who are working to have a better Vallarta, I am pleased to have such a model working team who show their face for their city, who know what they want and are not easily discouraged” he emphasized.
For his part, Porfirio Godínez Bobadilla, president of the colonia Fovissste 96 and Mayra Guadalupe, professor of the Telesecundaria Amado Nervo in Tebelchía, thanked the city mayor and his administration for the support given through several actions carried out to benefit Puerto Vallarta.
During the event recognitions were handed out to the neighbors’ groups, sector coordinators, schools and public officers who have participated in the activities of the campaigns “Sábados para Vivir Mejor” and “Vallarta Limpio”. The city mayor also received an acknowledgement from the Telesecundaria of Tebelchía; as well as Salvador González Reséndiz, director of Social Development; José Guadalupe Pelayo Martínez, chief of Citizen Participation; Yolanda Cuevas Cortez, chief of the Education Department, and Julio Jaramillo, responsible for the program Estímulos a la Educación (Education Support).
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Aurea Díaz-Velez de Santiago, New Municipal Culture chief
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
City mayor, Javier Bravo Carbajal, named last Wednesday professor Aurea M. Díaz-Velez de Santiago, cas new head of the Culture Department, substituting David Izazaga Márquez, who quit for personal reasons.
 Díaz-Velez de Santiago, has a long artistic and professional curricula. She studied at the Escuela Normal de Jalisco and the Escuela Normal Instituto América, in the city of Guadalajara; she has a teachers’ school profession specialized in special education; dancing teacher and concert dancer as well as movement therapy instructor, personality development and corporal expression.
She received classical and regional dance instruction as well as classic Spanish ballet. She was part of the Mexican Dance Academy of the National Institute of Fine Arts (or Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, I.N.B.A.); she has gone through dancing courses, choreography, psychology, special theater courses, Latin American folkloric dance, corporal expression, at the national system for the teaching of dancing, artistic education, theater and many more specialties.
Among her activities stands out having been part of the official group of folkloric dancing of the Mexican Dancing Academy of the Mexican Institute of Fine Arts, (I.N.B.A.); she has been chief of the Family Orientation and Planning Department, instructor of psychology and personality development seminars in Mexico City, where she also acted as regional dance teacher; counsel to the Instituto del Pilar in the treatment of children with adaptation problems.
She was also a choreographer for the ballet school “El Cascanueces” (The Nutcracker); labor instructor in the human relations area, corporal expression, didactics, art, theater and dance history, full time professor at the Colegio del Valle de México in cultural activities and director general and choreographer of dancing and theater presentations, among others.
She belongs to the association Compañeros de las Américas (Companions of the Americas) Jalisco-Oklahoma, and among her publicatons stands out “History of Dancing”, a series of articles published in the magazine ‘Varia’, in Guadalajara; “The Promotion of Art in Zapopan”, the municipal periodical and “Approaches to Dancing and its History”, a scholarship holder at the Consejo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes (State Council for the Culture and Arts), Aurea M. Díaz-Velez de Santiago, takes over the position held by Izazaga Márquez for just over nine months, trusting she will not disappoint the confidence deposited in her by the city mayor, Javier Bravo, nor that of the people of Vallarta. Among her goals she intends to promote and raise the cultural level of the population.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
Consensus in favor of Puerto Vallarta sought
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Javier Bravo Carvajal and the prívate sector propose to work jointly in the benefit of the development of the city and its inhabitants.
 In order to create consensus and to find viable solutions to the city’s social and touristic questions, Puerto Vallarta’s city mayor, Javier Bravo Carbajal, met with representatives of private sector last Wednesday in order to make them aware of the different proposals held in the City’s Development Plan.
Accompanied by some of his administration’s officers, the city mayor mentioned that it is of utmost importance to continue working for the development and growth of the municipality, since this will bring about better opportunities for the people of Vallarta in their economy and life standards.
He assured that one of the aspirations of his administration is to obtain the environmental certification issued by the corresponding entities, therefore, his administration has been working towards that goal from its beginning.
 He also informed of the advances achieved in the field of public security, like the acquisition of new patrol cars, the establishment of the Regional Emergency Attention Center, as well as forty new policemen from the police academy, among other actions that have contributed to having a safer destination.
Nonetheless, city mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal pointed out that he still has work to do in the touristic and urban infrastructure fields and other aspects to be considered in order to have a sustainable municipality, it is therefore necessary to build consensus that are beneficial for Puerto Vallarta, and mainly its community.
Representatives of the private business community on their part, presented the city mayor and city officers some of their environmental concerns on the urban and touristic infrastructure, the rescue of the city center as well as the revision of construction regulations, time share sales and operations, police and good government, among other subjects that are fundamental to the development of a tourist destination.
They finally mentioned that the only object of those meetings is to collaborate with the city government in the search of solutions to the remaining problems in the municipality and to maintain a cordial relationship and communication with the government of Javier Bravo Carbajal regarding the various subjects of general interest.
H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
Source: www.puertovallarta.gob.mx
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