New investments renew the Panama hotel sector

Growing level of occupancy have injected dynamism to the Panama hotel sector

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This does not only include the construction of new installations, but the expansion and renovation of many of the lodging centers already established in the country.

For a while now the availability of rooms (which was over 5,694 in July 2008) is now lacking and according tot hte Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) 1,188 new rooms will be available at hotel that are already registered. This year the investment surpasses $117.7 million.

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