Buenos Aires City Government Tourism Portal Launches blogs in English and Spanish

I’ve just seen on Pasa en Buenos Aires [ES] that the Buenos Aires Government Tourism Portal has launched two new blogs about tourism in the city of Buenos Aires, one in English, and one in Spanish.

Buenos Aires and Web 2.0

They say that the aim of the blogs is to form a Web 2.0 community around the subject of tourism in the city, with readers hopefully contributing useful ideas and content in addition to the city government writers themselves. For example, the new blogs want to be open to the following:

• travelers can ask their questions about the city before arriving;
• visitors can ask their questions when they already are in Buenos Aires;
• visitors can tell other travelers and also porteños about the places they found out;
• porteños can go public with their secrets about the city;
• you can comment what you like and what you don’t of Buenos Aires;
• you can meet people traveling, staying or living in the city;
• you can recommend, criticize, discuss and learn what is said about tourism in Buenos Aires.

Sounds interesting, and I’m looking forward to their posts, plus the comments from visitors to the city and of course porteños. So far, they have a couple of posts up: one on Buenos Aires in Winter / Buenos Aires en invierno, and another entitled Where did you go last night / ¿Adónde fuiste anoche? - both excellent starting topics, so go take a look and comment in whichever language you prefer.

But don’t forget me and the other Buenos Aires bloggers…

I have to say, that I still also welcome as much user interaction on my Buenos Aires blog as possible, in the same vein as the new city government blogs wish for - so please don’t be afraid to leave your views or questions in the comments sections at the end of each of my posts, or you can email me if you are interested in contributing a guest post or review from in and around Buenos Aires to this blog - such as the recent excellent guest posts we’ve seen from Diva of Bitchtours and Tango Cherie.

Finally, worth noting is that, after an extended absence, Jude has made a welcome return to the land of Buenos Aires blogging, over at Not for the fainthearted, and another fairly new blog that I’m reading on a regular basis is Soy So Lindo, which covers a load of cool and quirky things going on in Buenos Aires.

Happy reading!