Tourism Picks Up in Rural Nicaragua

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The 90 farms that are part of Nicaragua's Agro-tourism Farms initiative have reported an increase in tourist numbers, comments Harold Ramos Orozco, president of Nicaraguan Rural Community Tourism Network (Renitural in Spanish).

Ramos added to Laprensa.com.ni that, "the project is public-private partnership that seeks to create farming tourism models that can be used by the 90 farms that belong to the scheme".

Source: laprensa.com.ni

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