Aracena hosts the CUEVATUR congress from November 11 to 14

Aracena celebrates next week the tenth edition of the Spanish Congress on Tourist Caves and Mines CUEVATUR, which will take place from November 11 to 14. The meeting is organized by the Spanish Association of Tourist Caves (ACTE) and the City Council, with the collaboration of the Diputación de Huelva, the ministries of Science, Innovation and Universities and of Industry, Trade and Tourism, the University of Huelva, the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), among others. The congress brings together experts and professionals from the underground world and from tourist entities linked to this type of tourism, who will present the latest advances and proposals of the sector. As detailed by the City Council, the program includes communications and papers on new proposals for tourism development, future prospects for the activity, destination promotion, environmental monitoring and cave restoration, digitalization and prevention of occupational hazards and radon, among other topics. The event returns to Aracena, which was already a host city in 2010 and 2014. The municipality was a pioneer in this field with the opening of the Gruta de las Maravillas to tourism in 1914. The president of ACTE, Manuel Durán, has stated that the congress will bring together around thirty cavities from Andalusia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Murcia, Navarra and the Basque Country, in addition to the IGME. The closing will be given by the paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, who will offer his vision on caves and human evolution in the closing lecture, on Sunday at 12:30, with free admission. The mayor of Aracena, Manuel Guerra, has expressed his satisfaction at the return of the congress and has thanked ACTE for choosing the venue.