Small Hotels in the Region to be Promoted

The cities of Masaya, Granada and León, among others, will feature more as holiday destinations, through means of a partnership established between the company Amadeus and the National Chamber of Tourism allowing forty small hotels to be advertised to tourists in the region.

In an article in laprensa.com.ni, July Videa, marketing director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur), stressed that "this will increase bookings from abroad, creating an opportunity for small hotels who don’t usually have the resources to invest in promoting their premises.

Valenti said that for now the platform will be available to travel agencies in Central America, but in a few months it will be available to all agencies working with Amadeus, which globally is more than 69,000."

Source: laprensa.com.ni

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