The effort realized by the indigenous communities Emberá Quera and Emberá Ella Drua, located in the banks of the Gatún River, in Limón’s district, begins showing off results, published La Prensa newspaper.

In three months they have been visited by 433 Asian, European and American tourists, and both groups, above and below of the Gatún River, bet for a better tourist development in 2010.

The newspaper indicates that this population, which lives in conditions of poverty, fights to be able to enjoy the progress and other basic benefits that every citizen must have.

Aquilino Flaco, one of the leaders and promoter of the etno-tourism of the Emberá Quera community, said that with the help of the organization of the United StatesUSAID-Panama they have achieved that an indigenous community with few resources – and practically forgotten – could go so far as to offer on a global scale his traditions and customs as product of exportation.

The project, according to Fernando Álvarez, of the agency of American cooperation, includes training them on customer service bearing in mind the tourist, in addition to the fishing and subsistence agriculture.