{"id":7869,"date":"2023-08-30T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:31:08","slug":"chile-wins-again-as-south-americas-leading-adventure-and-most-romantic-destination-at-the-wta-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/chile-wins-again-as-south-americas-leading-adventure-and-most-romantic-destination-at-the-wta-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile wins again as South America\u2019s Leading Adventure and Most Romantic Destination at the WTA 2023!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our country continues to consolidate regional tourism. In the 30<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtravelawards.com\/\">World Travel Awards<\/a>\u00a0(WTA) 2023 in South America, <strong>Chile<\/strong> was crowned the <strong>Best Adventure Tourism Destination,<\/strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chile.travel\/donde-ir\/macrozona\/norte-y-desierto-de-atacama\/\">Atacama<\/a> Desert\u00a0 was chosen as the <strong>Most Romantic Destination<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the <strong>Oscar Tourism Awards<\/strong>, the WTA has taken place annually since 1993 and recognizes a wide variety of tourism categories, such as services and destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are given nationally, continentally, and internationally. In the last category, Chile was chosen as the World\u2019s Leading Green Destination in the years 2019, 2020, and 2022; and the <strong>World\u2019s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination <\/strong>in the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chile stands out again at regional level <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Chile has been chosen as the <strong>Best Adventure Tourism Destination in South America<\/strong> since 2015 up until now, so this is the ninth consecutive time that Chile has won this <a href=\"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/chile-mejor-destino-sudamerica-wta-2022\/\">award<\/a>. In 2023 it prevails over Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Atacama Desert has been crowned as the <strong>Best Romantic Destination in the region<\/strong> since 2018, so this is the sixth consecutive time that Chile has won this <a href=\"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/chile-mejor-destino-sudamerica-wta-2022\/\">award.<\/a> In 2023, Chile prevails over Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Islas Gal\u00e1pagos (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), \u00a0Fernando de Noronha, Paraty, and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>National Tourism Strategy 2030 <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subturismo.gob.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Estrategia-Nacional-de-Turismo-2030.pdf\">National Tourism Strategy 2030<\/a> considers <strong>adventure tourism<\/strong> among its prioritized experiences. <strong>AdventurePro<\/strong> is among the initiatives to boost this area. The route map focuses on leadership, strategic vision, legal framework, regulations, capacity creation, certification, and audit.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, the National Plan of Motivation for Adventure Tourism and Nature in Mountains points at boosting the development of adventure, nature, and sports tourist experiences in mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of <strong>regional development<\/strong>, the strategy seeks to strengthen the role of the regions in tourism development as an economic, social, and cultural driving force, with a focus on local and the contribution of sustainable and decentralized progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our country won two awards in the 30th regional version of the World Travel Awards (WTA), securing its place once again in the awards known as the Oscar Tourism Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,52],"tags":[101],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7872,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradenews.chile.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}