Three new convention centers will open within the next three years.
With an investment of $30 million, a project promoted by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo, to be built in Barreal de Heredia. is expected to completed by the first quarter of 2014.
For his part Fernando Poma, Vice President of Real Hotels & Resorts (operator of the Intercontinental Hotel chain), will announce the start of construction of a facility with a 2,700 person capacity, in Guachipelín of Escazú this July.
Real Hotels & Resorts announced state-of-the-art technology upgrades for all its hotels in Central America.
Sound-proof meeting rooms, 25 giant screens for video conferences, and high-speed internet services are some of the innovations to be developed.
Fernando Poma, vice president of the hotel division of Salvadoran conglomerate Grupo Poma, told ElPeriodico.com.gt: "We have one objective: to be 5 years ahead of the competition by means of a process of constant innovation. Being the only hotel chain providing all these services helps us to be chosen by our customers".
Real Hotels & Resorts (RHR) is planning to double in size over the next two years.
The new projects, which should all be completed at the end of the next year, are spread over Central America from San Pedro Sula (Honduras), to the expansion of the Real Quality Hotel (Airport) in El Salvador, to a new project - Club Tower - annexed to the Real InterContinental Hotel in Escazu, San Jose (Costa Rica).