5. Appropriate information about the area

A wide range of possibilities to access tourist information is available, through which La Gomera can be promoted. Existing information points and websites belonging to tourist offices meet these goals satisfactorily. The very existence of the National Park, and its a World Heritage Site status, are part of the attraction to the island. It is situated in what is already a tourist destination; the Canary Islands. This means there is plenty of advertising by tour operators, both in Spain and internationally.

However, this advertising is not coordinated between different agencies.  Although, for example, trekking is the most popular activity on the island, the Canaries as a whole are not promoted as a rural, or active tourism, site. No coordinated information about existing facilities is available, and many resources are out of tourists' reach as they are unable to access information about them.


Action will be directed at establishing the necessary means for providing access to adequate information once on the island, and before arrival. Work will be done on the coordination and adaptation of the content of websites aimed at tourism, in order to create a series of related pages offering, in their totality, detailed and complete information about the island. Action will also take place to provide tourist information points to complement information available, wherever needed.


General Objective
 
   To supply adequate information to visitors about the special qualities of the area.

Specific Objectives

• Preview information systems for tourists about their destination and its characteristics.

• Related and coordinated tourist websites at both insular and municipal level in various languages, with downloadable information available.

• The creation of information points in both public and private tourist establishments.

• Provision of current, updated information about available activities, meteorological information etc. in all the information points.

 Action

• 5.17.1. Inventory of tourist resources and services.

• 5.17.2. Interactive news programme about facilities, services and resources of the Garajonay N.P, equipped with a navigator to help orientation.

• 5.17.3. Interactive tourist map of the island.

• 5.18.1. Creation, or improvement, of municipal websites and of the National Park website.

• 5.18.2. Adaptation of the "Patronato Insular de Turismo" website as the island's tourism portal.

• 5.19.1. The creation of an accreditation system, with requirements, to create information points in tourist establishments.

• 5.20.1. The creation of a tourist office in Hermigua.

• 5.20.2. Information and promotion of tourism in Vallehermoso.

• 5.20.3. Editorial tourist information plan from the European Charter of Sustainable Tourism.

• 5.20.4. The establishment of a system of meteorological information in the Garajonay National Park.

• 5.20.5. The creation of a tourist information coordination committee.