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Tropic Inn Hotel inaugurates convention center in El Salvador

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.

Friday, October 10, 2008

©image: D'Arcy Norman

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. Anyone will be able to used the space upon request even though they are not clients of the company by paying a fee.
The fifth floor is the convention center which has a capacity for 1500 people.

Source: elsalvador.com

Key entities

Hotel Tropico Inn. (El Salvador) Turisticas de Oriente S.A.

Insight

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