El Dorado Airport has been awarded for having the best personnel in South America terminals

El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá has been recognized by the British company Skytrax as the terminal with the best staff in South America and won the airport excellence award for implementing biosecurity protocols, the company reported on Friday.

In addition, El Dorado ranks 43rd in the ranking of the best airports in the world, among the 500 terminals assessed, which means an increase of 10 places During the previous year.

“This increase to the highest number in the industry reflects what we have been doing over the past year”, underlined the Director General of the International Airport Operator (Opain), Andrés Ortega.

Ortega added: “We are in a constant transformation process which has enabled us to position the airport El Dorado as a terminal that prepares itself and creates relevant connections to face the new world ”, with reference to the changes required by the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2018, Skytrax, a firm specializing in the quality of air transport, recognized El Dorado, for the third year in a row, as the best airport in South America.

To these recognitions The five-star rating awarded by Skytrax to El Dorado for the implementation of security measures at the airport during the health emergency is added of the new coronavirus sras-cov-2.

“We work on a daily basis to make this terminal a benchmark in sustainable, technological, close and avant-garde processes”, pointed out Ortega.

According to the El Dorado administration, the airport benefits more than 25,000 people who depend on its operations.

“We will continue to work hand in hand with our collaborators and all our industry allies to strengthen the sector and continue to support the economic recovery of the country as we are committed to continue to be Colombia’s main showcase for the world, “said the director of Opain.

Colombia is the South American country with the highest air demand so far in 2021

Recently in Infobae Colombia a report was released on the recovery in tourism, where travel analytics firm ForwardKeys noted that Colombia was the first country in South America with the most air demand.

In addition, a report, published by ProColombia, indicates that Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena They are among the ten destinations in the region with the most international arrivals over the period between January and June 2021.

Likewise, the report found that Colombia is the second country in the Southern Cone with the most confirmed tickets for international arrivals to date in 2021.

Flavia Santoro, president of ProColombia, underlined that these positive indicators and others on reactivation are due to an articulated work between the different actors of the sector which has been framed in a keyword: trust.

“We have been working since last year with all the players in the tourism chain, because it is from this aligned work that we must be able to adapt quickly to the situation and respond to attract these tourists. In addition, we have focused all our efforts on trust, this is the key word of travelers. For example, by implementing biosecurity measures today, we have the seal “Certified registration, COVID-19 bioseguro”, with which we have certified more than 720 companies. This seal was launched by the national government and is supported by the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel and Tourism Council, ”Santoro said.

With information from EFE.

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