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Tourist Marinas: New Law in Costa RicaTuesday, April 6, 2021 President Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Tourism Gustavo Segura, signed the Law for the Promotion of Tourist Marinas and Coastal Development, a regulation that modernizes the conditions in which the country's marinas operate. The law, signed on April 5, authorizes foreign-flagged vessels and their crews to carry out lucrative activities related to aquatic transportation, recreation and tourism within the waters of the national territory, allowing the hiring of national captains and sailors to carry out these practices, informed the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT). Covid Passport: Essential for Economic RecoveryTuesday, March 16, 2021 Central America must be the driving force behind a globally accepted document that will be vital for the recovery of the global economy and tourism in particular. The generation of a physical or digital document of global acceptance (like national passports) that certifies that the bearer has been vaccinated against Covid-19 will facilitate the movement of people that has been severely restricted as part of the measures adopted by governments, both locally and internationally, to contain the pandemic. Tourism in Panama: Revenues Up 3% in 2018Monday, March 11, 2019 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 Panama Tourism 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. Tourism Activities: Regulations in GuatemalaFriday, March 26, 2021 In order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the authorities issued a Ministerial Agreement regulating tourist activities during Holy Week. On March 25, the Ministerial Agreement 73-2021 of the Ministry of Public Health was published in the Diario de Centroamerica. Costa Rica: Tourist Arrivals Fall 68% in 2020Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Due to the outbreak of covid-19 worldwide and restrictions on passenger transportation, only 1.01 million visitors arrived in the country during 2020, 68% less than what was reported in 2019, when 3.14 million tourists arrived. Although the fall in tourist arrivals was generally resounding, during the last months of 2020 a more favorable behavior was reported. Tourism: Crisis Worsened in 2020Wednesday, February 3, 2021 The amount of visitors arrivals to Central America and the Dominican Republic shows a downward trend since 2016, which was consolidated in 2019 and worsened in 2020, a phenomenon that is explained by the events recorded in the extra-regional market. Between 2015 and 2019, the countries of the SICA region, the average growth rate of visitor arrivals was 4.9%, where only in 2019 there was a negative rate of -0.2%, highlights a document of the Secretariat for Central American Tourism Integration (SITCA) published in January 2021. Panama: Tourism Figures in 2014Thursday, February 5, 2015 During the year 2.3 million tourists came into the country, of which 48% came from South America, 24.3% from North America, 12.7% from Central America and 2.5% of the Antilles. The increase of 4.7% compared to 2013 did not solve the problem of low occupancy in hotels, because the supply of rooms also continued to rise. A drop of 20% was reported in financial income from this sector. Panama: Tourist Arrivals Begin to Fall in 2020Wednesday, March 18, 2020 During the first month of the year, 215,607 visitors arrived to the country, a figure that is 18% less than the one reported for the same period in 2019. The General Comptroller of the Republic reported that between January 2019 and the same month of 2020 48,696 tourists arrived to the country less, from 264,303 to 215,607 visitors. The report states that in the case of cruise ship passengers, the number increased by 130%, from 10,822 to 24,868. More American Tourists Arriving in Costa RicaTuesday, December 8, 2020 Between October and November, the number of visitors from the US quadrupled, from 6,000 to 24,000, a rise reported in the context of the economic reopening and the reactivation of commercial flights. The 24,606 Americans who arrived in the country during November, represent a little more than a quarter of the visits from the US registered in the same month of 2019, informed the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT). The decrease in tourist arrivals is due to the crisis generated by the outbreak of covid-19 at a global level. Dominican Republic: Tourism Still in Red NumbersTuesday, December 17, 2019 Between January and November 2018 and the same period in 2019, the number of tourists who arrived in the country reported a 1.5% drop, which contrasts with the increases recorded years ago. The arrival of non-resident passengers to the Dominican Republic in the January-November 2019 period reached a total of 5,821,768 travelers, for a -1.5% variation with respect to the same period of the previous year, informed the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. Tourist Arrivals in Guatemala Up 6%Thursday, November 21, 2019 From January to September 2019, 1.89 million visitors were registered, a figure 6% higher than that reported for the same period in 2018. During the ninth month of the year, a total of 161,891 visitors entered, of which 70% were tourists and 30% were hikers. Bad Year for Tourism in the Dominican RepublicWednesday, January 15, 2020 During 2019, 5.36 million foreign tourists arrived in the country, a figure 5% lower than that reported in 2018, a drop that can be explained by the news published in the middle of the year regarding the death of several American tourists in the hotels of Punta Cana. The Dominican tourism sector was the focus of an unfortunate media campaign about unfortunate events that occurred to some tourists from the United States of America in some hotels in the country during the first half of 2019, which generated a high volume of cancellations in air bookings scheduled by travelers to the Dominican Republic, reflected in a year-on-year drop in the number of foreign visitors, reported the Central Bank. Tourist Arrivals Grew 4% up to June 2019Tuesday, August 6, 2019 During the first half of the year, 1.73 million visitors arrived in Costa Rica, a figure 3.9% higher than that reported in the same period in 2018, behavior that is explained by the rise in the arrival of tourists from North America. Figures from the Costa Rican Tourism Institute specify that only during June of this year, the arrival of 249 thousand visitors was registered, 11% more than those reported in the same month of 2018. Tourism in Nicaragua: Crisis and OutlookWednesday, March 3, 2021 After the political crisis the country went through in 2018 and the health crisis it faced in 2020, businessmen maintain hopes that tourism activities will recover in 2021 and in the following years return to the path of growth. The Nicaraguan tourism sector has been rained on over the past three years. In April 2018, companies engaged in these activities began to experience a crisis, as a political and social crisis occurred in the country, which ended up affecting the productive activity. Tourism: Costa Rica Wants More Mexican TouristsTuesday, March 12, 2019 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. |
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