Loches or topochos
Tourism could approach the thresholds for most charming of our cultures, but the mimicry and ignorance prevailing offer, among other goods, theme parks and monotonous bland malls, in disgrace almost all of the traditions that once gave us traits of people. No rejects the offer in itself, but its limited content and context. If you visit the proposed reconstruction of colonial times somewhere, surely find in it a copy of a TV movie set design, and lunch, a letter absent the kitchen environment. Closer to the hallmarks of our gastronomic tours of Venezuela, became a long search for archaeologists. Look around you, wherever you are. Large or medium, the stock of existing food culture, if you have any presence in the programs of tourism, has a marginal or because there is no alternative. I know there are exceptions, but they are usually fleeting and isolated by the little support from those who should supply it.
All studies about the tourist potential of our regions coincide in pointing out abundance of attractions, but by the time of making proposals is always presented the same list of routes and events, developed under the schemes of international tourism that does not take into account the diversity of culture and despises the imagination. We need less arrogance and more technical knowledge and understanding of Venezuela. This assumes, of course, an educational effort that we recover as human beings endowed to serve with decency and decorum required by the art of hospitality. Brings new perspectives on the familiar landscape and forgotten. Friendly approach demands a spiritual geography that holds us. We know what it takes verbal ugliness called "infrastructure" but more are needed sensitive and educated human beings who know their place and know display with pride. Servers are essential to appreciate their traditions, their speech and their names. In Yaracuy, for example, it takes the careful eye of the chroniclers and the time of the cooks to get into the routes circumvented its history.
Why have we taken so long to trace the route of cocoa Yaracuyanos? A museum Jobito cocoa, which will surely survive some trees of Theobroma could be the center of this possible route. Corn and cane, in a region that has lived through years of those fruits, not be limited to grass a fair routine. Are called to be our best attractions, not to mention the loch, which must, of course, keep calling and, as an unequivocal expression of lexical taste. Banana route is a gateway to the African memory and a path Veroes ancestral regions.
With a stubbornness reluctant to evidence, tourism in Venezuela has given back to the culinary heritage. Still time to rectify.
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