Honduras Offers Unique Travel and Tourism Investment Opportunities

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Only Honduras, of the seven countries in Central America, offers all of these tourist attractions, making it a major draw for high-end hospitality and tourism investment.
Fepresentatives of FIDE, the country's investment promotion agency, extolled their country's tourism attributes and investment potential in Guatemala last week at the first Central America Tourism & Hotel Investment Exchange (CATHIE), and earlier at an Americas-focused conference in Los Angeles, California, seeking investors and managers for a mosaic of luxury projects underway in Honduras.

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