September 11, 2009
More than 100 experts from 16 countries will attend the 7th International Meeting of Nature Tourism (TURNAT 2009) in Cuba from Sept. 14 to 18, organizers said on Thursday.
TURNAT 2009, to be held in Zapata Swamp, 160 kilometers southeast of Havana, is an opportunity to discuss nature tourism and to know the new destination-products that Cuba has for the next season, sources from the organization committee said.
Tour operators, travel agencies and experts on nature will also visit the famous wetland of Zapata Swap to learn about the flora and faun of marsh ecosystem in Cuba.
Zapata Swamp has more than 2,000 endemic kinds of animals and more than 1,000 kinds of plants.
With a surface of some 4,500 square kilometers, Zapata Swamp is considered as the biggest and best conserved wetland in the Caribbean area and part of the international treaty of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance created in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971.
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