Mariano Beltranena, manager of the Vista Real Hotel, said he felt optimistic after participating in the Assembly of the Convention, Meeting and Congress sector carried out in Chicago last week.
In the midst of the US economic crisis, corporate or executive tourism "is now looking to Guatemala as a destination country," he declared.
Salvadoran Fernando Poma, executive director of the Real Hotels and Resource - which is in charge of the Real Intercontinental Hotel franchise in the Central America - was of the opinion that the corporate segment will continue on the Isthmus, however they will have to attract executives from other regions.

Source: prensalibre.com

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