From September 30 to October 5, within the International Convention of the Puerto Rican Association of Travel Agencies (APAV), over 120 travel agencies will visit several touristic spots in Guatemala.
"The objective is for operators find out more about the country's touristic attractions, hoping to increase 'boricua' visitors in up to 30%", published Sigloxxi.com. "APAV's Josie Lopategui indicated that Puerto Rican tourists are very interested in visiting the country".
Source: sigloxxi.com
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April 2010
Tourism businessmen created the Central America Bureu to promote the region as a business tourism destination.
Roberto Robles, director of the Guatemalan Tourism Institute (Inguat), explained that CAB will ‘simplify, foster and promote the regional integration of policies and activities to strengthen this industry’.
November 2011
The sixty events held this year generated revenues of $300 million for the country.
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.
September 2008
The tourism and convention sectors agree that Panama 'needs' a competitive convention center.
The auctioning of the Atlapa convention center, which according to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance (MEF), will be completed sometime at the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009 and will create range of opportunities for the San Francisco convention center.
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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