Panama expects to have doubled last year’s UK arrivals figures by the end of this year.
Last year, 8,000 Britons visited the Central American country; this year, 7,400 had already done so by the summer.
Panama’s tourism sector grew 24% to become the country’s number one industry last year.
Hotel development is proceeding rapidly, fuelled by tax-free inducements until 2015.
In September, there were 104 new hotel projects under way in Panama City alone, and investment in recent years has totalled several billion dollars.
“Investment in real estate and hotels in Panama is more than in Central America and the Caribbean combined,” said Carl-Frederik Nordstrum, deputy general administrator of the Authority of Tourism Panama. Full story...
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