Occupancy rates in hotels, shops and spending power are some of the benefits these kinds of conventions have generated for the Panamanian tourism industry.
So said Minister of the Panamanian Tourism Authority, Solomon Shamah, who released results regarding this segment of the tourism sector which has grown so much in the last few months.
Thanks to promotional efforts, which included a guarantee that Atlapa Convention Center be free, more companies chose Panama to host their events this year.
In an article in Panamaamerica.com.pa, the minister said that "the outlook for the coming year is encouraging and so far events have been scheduled that will produce bookings for 95,065 nights in hotels in the city alone.
In order to continue creating added value, he said that a tender will soon be created for a new convention center to be built in the area of Amador, at the end of the third stage of the Cinta Costera, considered one of the sectors with the greatest potential for tourism development. "
Source: Panamaamerica.com.pa
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October 2008
With an investment of $6.5 million, the City of San Miguel will host the second largest convention center in the country. It will have a capacity of 1500 people.
The building is an extension of the Tropic Inn Hotel which belongs to Sociedad Turísticas de Oriente S.A.
The first four floors of the building - which took two years to construct - will used as a parking space for 250 vehicles.
May 2012
The countries of the region are compete for organizing events and conferences whose participants spend on average $1,200 per day.
Panama, Colombia and Costa Rica are building new convention centers to be opened in 2014, a major effort that aims to achieve a good slice of the cake that is convention tourism.
May 2009
The island of Roatan will be home to one of the annual events of the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association from June 21 – 26, 2009.
This is the 7th Conference of the Platinum Members of the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), which will bring together executives of the major shipping lines coming into our territory and the representatives of national governments in the region.
March 2009
The auction that was scheduled for late 2008 has been stalled since then and will continue when the Ministry of Housing changes the way the land can be used and allows the construction of hotels and residential projects.
Marco Tulio Hernandez, coordinator of the Division for the Promotion and Sale of State Property, informed Prensa.com: "The intention of this office is to endow the land with usage that would allow the construction of hotels and residential projects, 'with the indispensable condition of keeping the convention center,’ something that has been demanded by the tourism and business industries in Panama. Hernández was not confident that the auction would be concluded before the end of the term of the current government, but he said that they are working 'as if there were going to be no change. If we do not do it on time, we would hand over any progress made to the next administration."
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