The tourism developer Gran Pacifica is planning to complete the Gran Pacifica villa with 300 homes, hotels and condominiums, golf courses and parks, according to the master plan for investment.
Laprensa.com.ni reports that "Leveraging the signs of recovery shown in some of the world’s economies, which seem to have withstood the roughest stage of the global crisis, the tourism developer Gran Pacifica is expanding its growth targets toward agribusiness, energy generation and mining, without abandoning its goal of consolidating residential tourism. "
Having hotel guests take home a product marked with your name or brand is the best way to differentiate yourself from competitors.
Competition is very tough and the internet has made global hotel deals transparent, so positively differentiating yourself and making clients remember you is vital for getting a return stay at your hotel.
Julie Weed's article (The New York Times), published in Elnuevodiario.com.ni, remarks that it is no longer enough to have bathrobes, bedding and pillows monogrammed if you want to secure the hotel brand in the customer's mind and make them decide to return.
The capital, Managua, will increase its supply of hotel rooms from 2013 when three new hotels will be built.
Located in the area of the Rotunda de Jean Paul Genie, in the next few months construction will begin on a Holiday Inn hotel , said Benjamin Spears, president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction.
"Jose Enrique Solórzano, operations manager of Holiday Inn , also in the capital, said that the new hotel of the same brand belongs to other investors." It is a Salvadoran group and I think it's a Holiday Inn Express, that is to say, a bed and breakfast '", writes Génesis Hernandez for Laprensa.com.ni.
In Nicaragua exemptions and tax credits for tourism activities can be exploited only by large investors.
Writing in Prensa.com.ni, businessman Rafael Córdova examines the actual results of the implementation of Act 306 of 1999 which declares tourism as an industry and characterizes it as an activity in the national interest.
Cordova notes that "Since the entry into force of the law, the process of receiving it benefits has worked very well for large tourism investments that meet a number of requirements such as company profiles, market research, investment plans, financial projections for a period of 10 years, land appraisals, architectural plans, ceilings, architectural elevations, etc.. "
From the 28 June up until today more than 150 representatives from the tourism industry have been gathering at the headquarters of the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism.
The forum aims to update businessmen grouped under the umbrella of the Federation of Small Hotels with regards to the use of social networking and electronic commerce as tools to boost sales.
A report by the Instituto Tecnológico Hotelero summarizes the main areas that travellers use to qualify a hotel as good or bad.
The report entitled "#Hotelfacts or how to add value to a hotel stay", summarizes the research in the form of some recommendations that any hotel can apply to aspects directly related to improving the customer’s experience, and to help to increase competitiveness.
The 36 room Hotel Los Portales, required an investment of $3.2 million.
The new colonial style hotel is a family business run by Teodoro Picado and his wife Maria Torres de Picado, who spent $3.2 million on it. It has two floors with 3,400 m2 and a capacity of 100 people in 36 rooms.
The hotel is part of the Plaza Real complex, which includes the restaurant Rostipollos, Pizza Maria and a western technology store by Movistar.
The Colombian Decameron Group is expanding its investments in Latin America in 2012, including the opening of two hotels in Costa Rica and one in Panama.
In Costa Rica, Decameron will open this year a 330-room Royal Decameron Irazu in San Jose, and one in Jaco Beach, with 130 rooms.
"In April, they will open the first Hard Rock hotel in Central and South America, which will be located in Panama and will have 1,463 rooms.
Business associations are demanding to know the legal basis for an intervention at Hotel Punta Teonoste, where 20 acres of land were confiscated, to be handed to the former rebel leader Eden Pastora.
President of the Superior Council of Private Enterphrise, COSEP, Jose Adan Aguerri, said the episode provokes uncertainty, which affects "all Nicaraguans in the country, it is the government, it is our image, it is employment, it is investment attraction, and that's something we're going to protect."
Although the figure stood at 45% during the time of the crisis, it shows no variation when compared to in 2010.
The opening of two new hotels is, in the opinion of experts, one of the factors that has influenced the current occupancy rate in the country’s hotel industry.
One of the strategies that the hotels are using to increase the occupancy rates of their facilities is the improvement and expansion of existing infrastructure.
The Chinese are in third place in terms of expenditure on travel, just behind the United States and Germany. By 2015 they will be in second place.
According to the latest Global Trends Report, spending on accommodation by Chinese tourists in 2011 will amount to around $57 billion, ranking them third behind the Americans and Germans.
By 2015 the volume of expenditure is expected to increase by17%, to $67 billion.
With an investment of about $20 million the Institute of Tourism has announced the construction of two marinas in the Caribbean and a hotel in Leon.
The investments are of Italian and Spanish origin, explained the head of the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur), Mario Salinas.
With an initial investment of about $15 million, one of the marinas will be built in Bluefields Bay and the other on Corn Island, in the south Caribbean, said Juan Manuel Muñoz, manager in charge of the proposed marinas. Construction work is scheduled to start in late December.
The storms that have hit Central America in last ten days have affected the sector which makes up 8% of GDP in the region.
As well as the decline in tourist arrivals, there are also substantial damages to infrastructure with collapsed roads and bridges, making it impossible to achieve growth targets set for this year.
The Minister of Tourism in El Salvador, Jose Napoleon Duarte, said, "People who had trips scheduled this month have not traveled. No one has been thinking of traveling and this will completely overthrow all of the statistics at the end of the year. It is better to speak with sincerity. "
The country will host from today until September 29 the IX Central American Forum of Small Hotels.
Organized by the Central Federation of Small Hotels (FECAPH), the event brings together the region's hoteliers to define strategies to improve competitiveness.
"In parallel, a "Provider’s Fair " will also be running, which aims to improve infrastructure investments.