Lomas de Guijarro, Colonia Florencia and Villas del Real are some of the sectors where the consumers with the highest purchasing power are concentrated in Tegucigalpa.
Through a geomarketing tool, developed by CentralAmericaData and based on interactive maps, it is possible to identify where people are and what characteristics they have as consumers.
Hugo App, a platform for home delivery services, is one of the companies that accelerated its growth due to the mobility restrictions that have been decreed in the countries of the region because of the health crisis.
In order to contain the spread of covid-19, governments in Central America have decreed mandatory quarantines and restricted the movement of consumers at certain times. Faced with this new commercial reality, companies dedicated to home delivery of products have increased their income considerably.
In Panama, a bill seeks to regulate messaging services offered through technological platforms, such as UberEats, Appetito 24, Glovo or Domicilio Don Juan.
The platforms of digital messaging services, such as transport activity, will be regulated, according to the essence of Draft Law 179 proposed in the Transport Commission, informed the National Assembly on October 14. See proposal submitted.
The growing tendency to lease rather than buy, not only real estate and cars, but also services and products, is forcing traditional companies to reinvent themselves completely, not to be left out of the new digital and collaborative economy.
Although in Central America this trend is not yet as marked as in other regions of the world, companies that want to prevail in the future must pre-empt it and begin to redefine their long-term strategies, considering these changes that while leading the new generations, are not alien to other age segments of the population.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
(A glimpse into the future...)
In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The same free market concept that led to a concession of a taximeter plate of almost zero original cost to reach a value of tens of thousands of dollars, must now be applied to the irruption of collaborative transport services.
The National Private Enterprise Meeting is scheduled for November 13 and will deal with issues related to simplification of procedures, big data and the sharing economy.
On November 13, the 17th edition of the National Private Enterprise Meeting (ENADE) will be held, under the theme "Employment and development", as reported by the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), organizer of the activity.
Guatemala's taxi companies reacted to UBER's threat as any good entrepreneur does: innovating in order to improve and be more competitive.
In other countries taxi drivers are trying to resist the progress that the collaborative economy represents for users, relying on alleged"acquired rights"with the complicity of inefficient governments. In Guatemala, taxi companies have united and launched mobile applications that make life easier for their users.
People with kidney failure can now travel normally, covered by a coalition of companies united by the concepts of a sharing economy.
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The best demonstration of the advantages that exist today because of the unstoppable "sharing economy" is the association of global companies Uber and Airbnb with 0a Uruguayan startup, Connectus Medical, to help solve the problem of the travel needs of people who need regular hemodialysis treatment.
The private transport company has announced it will invest $3.5 million in the opening of a service center and support for the operation of the company in Latin America.
From a statement issued by the CINDE:
San Jose, January 26, 2016 -Uber has announced the establishment in Costa Rica of its first Center of Excellence in Latin America. The center will create more than 300 jobs by the end of this year.
Panamanian private sector representatives are defending the mode of operations of Uber, who announced the launch of its corporate transportation service in Panama City.
As in Costa Rica, the arrival of Uber has generated resistance among traditional public transport sectors, such as taxis.
The practical sharing economy is keeping pace with digital communications and logistics systems finely tuned to all size markets.
And this realization already extends beyond using Airbnb to rent an apartment for vacation or a using Uber to make a journey. If you need a drill for a couple of hours to hang new curtains, why buy it if it is something which afterwards you will only use occasionally? Rent it. Surely someone in your neighborhood has a drill that they once bought to hang their own curtains, and is willing to rent it for less than a new one costs.
The mere announcement of the arrival in Costa Rica of the private transport network has already generated projects that result in benefits for consumers.
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Competition is always good, and its actual existence in any market produces better use of available resources, bringing benefits for society in terms of better products and services and reducing costs.
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