This Thursday, March 24, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (Mincit) officially launched the Law on Cultural Crafts, together with the Ministry of Culture and Crafts of Colombia. The initiative was presented within the framework of the fourth version of the Orange Economy Congress organized by the Chamber of Commerce of La Guajira and its Creative and Cultural Festival — Crea Fest 2022: Let Your Ideas Fly.
“The Law on Cultural Trades will allow us to certify people who carry out traditional trades, who have learned from inherited knowledge such as midwifery, traditional cooking, translation of native languages, among others and through this certification, open up financing possibilities and to become trainers of these traditional practices. In this way, we will generate better opportunities for flavors and those who preserve the cultural heritage of Colombians,” said Minister of Culture, Angelica Mayolo.
According to Mincit, the tool will seek to protect and promote culture and traditional knowledge, as well as to promote tourism and generate opportunities for visitors to explore the richness of the territories through travel.
This also aims to maximize business productivity, territorial equity and the quality of life of the host communities. One of the areas that will allow the law to be promoted is gastronomy, which according to the trade portfolio “has become an important driver of tourism promotion in regional destinations”.
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“I want to highlight the role of the Cultural Crafts Act, with which we seek to ensure the sustainability, valuation and transmission of knowledge in the artistic trades, creative and cultural industries, crafts and cultural heritage in Colombia. This initiative will allow us to spark the development of our regions and promote tourism, because it has valuable tools to promote education and training for artisans and the certification of their knowledge,” said the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, María Ximena Lombana Villalba.
The official also highlighted that her ministry is working “on the structuring and regulation of the Network of Craft and Craft Peoples, a tool to strengthen cultural tourism and its relationship with craft trades, the arts, creative industries and heritage”.
This is another focus of the management of the trade portfolio; with this, work is also being done on the structuring and regulation for the operation of the Single Registry of Artisans of Colombia. “These tools will contribute to institutional coordination and the formalization of the craft sector,” said Mincit.
According to Minister Lombana, the new tools generated by this standard “will allow us to strengthen gastronomy as a tourism product. Through the Colombia A La Mesa strategy we seek to contribute to its national and international recognition, and to advance the appropriation of the Colombian gastronomic identity.”
“Today we share the good news of this Law on Trades, which represents a great step forward for the recognition, education, qualification, educational and labor mobility, associativity and formalization of artisans, and also represents immense opportunities for the preservation, promotion and commercialization of Colombian handicrafts”, said the manager of Handicrafts of Colombia, Ana María Fríes.
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