After nearly 100,000 Mexican tourists visited Costa Rica in 2018, this year the authorities plan to intensify the country's promotion in Mexico's main cities.
According to the latest estimates, this year about 508,000 Mexicans would be considering vacationing in Costa Rica.
Last year, 2,48 million tourists arrived in the country, spending $4.605 million, 3.3% more than in 2017.
Figures from the Statistics Department of the PanamaTourism Authority (ATP), specify that the average time a tourist stays in the country is approximately 8 days and spends on average a total of $1,856, which is equivalent to $232 per day, expenses include accommodation, shopping, food, internal transportation, entertainment, visits to historic tourist sites within and outside the capital city.
This year is expected to increase flights between the capital of the Caribbean country and cities in the U.S., and also increase the frequency of domestic flights.
Directors of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom), forecast this year a growth in the number of tourists, as it is expected the opening of new routes and an increase in frequencies in the existing ones.
The low performance of tourism in Panama in recent years does not follow the high investments that the Panamanian State has been making in airport and port infrastructure.
Between 2017 and 2018, the number of visitors who entered Panama through Tocumen International Airport grew by just 0.3%, the equivalent of some 6,000 more passengers. The numbers for 2017 compared to 2016 were not good either: Although in the period concerned the average expenditure of tourists grew, the total number of visitors remained unchanged, at 2.5 million people.
Last year, the daily average expenditure of tourists decreased 8% over 2017, but the average stay increased from 6.2 to 7.5 nights.
In 2018, every tourist who visited the country spent an average of $113 per day, slightly below the $123 reported as average daily spending in 2017. This decrease was offset by the increase in the average stay, resulting in a total of $1.532 million generated by this activity throughout the year.
In Panama, the National Assembly authorized the transfer of $11 million to finance the rehabilitation of tourism projects in Isla Colón, the Antón Valley and the construction of the Boquete convention center.
Regarding the administrative management to provide the funds, the National Assembly reported that the Budget Committee was responsible for approving two transfers of items from the Ministry of Commerce and Industries to the Panama Tourism Authority.
During 2018, tourist arrivals to Guatemala reached 2.4 million and the year-on-year increase was 14%. By 2019, the number of visitors is expected to rise to 2.6 million, representing a 10% increase.
According to figures from the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism (INGUAT), it is estimated that between 2018 and 2019, foreign exchange income in the sector will register a 2% increase, going from $1.231 million to $1.249 million.
Starting in February, Canada's Air Transat will add two direct flights from the City of Toronto, one to Liberia and the other to San Jose.
The North American airline adds a new destination, since it already had two flights a week between Montreal and Liberia, and also another two from San Jose to the Canadian city.
Nacion.com reports that Annick Guérard, director of operations at Air Transat, said in a statement that "...
During 2018, hotels in Panama City reported an average daily occupancy of 4,602 rooms, 7% less than in 2017.
The latest data from the General Comptroller of the Republic detail that only in December the daily average of occupied rooms registered a 5% drop compared to the same month last year, falling from 4,544 to 4,307.
The Tourism Authority informed CCA-Cocige, responsible for building the Convention Center in Amador, the intention to cancel the contract because of critical flaws in the design and infrastructure.
The work was originally awarded to HPC Contratas P&V, but in 2016, after work was halted for 24 months because of a liquidity problem, the project was assigned to the CCA-Cocige consortium.
In Panama, a law was approved that will grant tax incentives until 2025 to businessmen who invest in hotels and recreational activities.
Between the most important incentives that contemplates the law project 696 that was approved in third debate, it emphasizes the exoneration of the tax of material import, for the constructions of accommodations or inns for the tourism made in the interior of the country.
Because of the crisis affecting the country since April last year, it is estimated that during 2018 the losses of the Nicaraguan tourism sector totaled $440 million, and more than 62 thousand jobs disappeared.
The arrival of tourists to the country is another figure reporting a considerable decline last year, since between 2017 and 2018 the number of visitors who came to Nicaragua fell 55%, going from 1.7 million to 800 thousand.
Of the $91 million invested in tourism projects in El Salvador during 2018, 87% went to finance private works and 13% to public infrastructure.
The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) reported that among the projects with private investment are works located in the Ruta de las Flores with an approximate investment of $6.27 million, in El Tunco beach with $3.8 million, in Boquerón $1.36 million and in the Ruta Fresca $1.8 million.
In 2018, the number of international tourists who arrived in the countries of the region fell 2% compared to 2017, in contrast to the increases of 4% and 3% recorded in North and South America, respectively.
According to the report of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) presented on January 21, the results recorded last year in Central America are partly because of behavior in some countries, as in the cases of Panama and Nicaragua were recorded declines in tourism.
Last year, tourist arrivals in the Dominican Republic totaled 6.6 million, making it the highest reported figure, surpassing the 6.2 million recorded in 2017.
The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic reported that "... The cumulative arrival of non-resident passengers at the close of 2018, which includes foreign visitors and non-resident Dominicans, reached the historic figure of 6,568,888 people, reaching 381,346 additional travelers compared to 2017, for a 6.2% year-on-year growth. Of this increase, 69.4% corresponds to foreign tourists (264,544 additional passengers) and the remaining 30.6% to Dominicans living abroad (116,802 additional passengers). These results show that the country remains one of the most attractive vacation destinations in the entire island Caribbean.
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