Just over 600 people from the airport community in Latin America and the United States will participate in the XIX International Hurricane Seminar 2024, which will be held on April 29 and 30 at a hotel in this city.
This update of knowledge on the preparation before, during and after the arrival of a hurricane on the continent has high curricular value because it is endorsed by the United Nations Institute for Vocational Training and Research of the UN (Unitar) and the global network known as International Training Center for Authorities and Leaders (Cifal), whose office in Mérida is chaired by Mr. Héctor Navarrete Muñoz, regional director of Grupo ASUR, organizer of this seminar.
In addition, it has the support of the International Airport Council for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The general administrator of the Mérida International Airport “Manuel Crescencio Rejón”, Óscar Carrillo Maldonado, and the manager of General Aviation and Public Relations of Grupo Asur, Ana Cristina Muñoz Bello, reported that about 200 airport executives will participate in this year’s seminar. from Costa Rica, Curacao, the United States, Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, but the vast majority of countries and executives in the region participate in the event via live broadcast on the zoom platform, so the total attendance would be 600 or700 people.
The seminar has curricular value and whoever completes the 10 hours of training, 5 hours per day, will receive the certification recognized by Unitar and Cifal.
The directors of Grupo ASUR recalled that this seminar has been held interruptedly since 2005 as a result of the impact caused by Hurricane “Wilma” in Quintana Roo, which stranded thousands of international tourists in the neighboring state due to the impact of the Cancun airport. Then, the Mérida airport fulfilled its function as an alternate terminal and from this city tourists returned to their countries of origin.
Ana Cristina Muñoz reported that the hurricane hunting plane will not come this year.
The aircraft was in Mérida last year, from where it left for its atmospheric studies activity for the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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