I have watched this project since the bidding process where several suitors offered hundreds of millions of dollars for the rights to develop the former US Howard Air Force base. A good friend of mine back in Miami lost the bid to London and Regional out of the UK for an amount in excess of $700 Million. […]
A friend of mine in the hospitality business sent me a link to this article from Forbes that adds another deal to the growing list of new hotels opening in Panama. MIAMI — Intercontinental Hotels Group said Thursday it has signed a franchise agreement to bring a new Holiday Inn Express hotel to Panama […]
Along the lines of economic drivers like international airport development, Panama is getting smart on tapping the huge transient trafice coming through Tocumen Airport by starting a new campaign “visit us for free”. I was reading an article in the Visitante that outlined the program. ATP Administrator Salomón Shamah is rolling out Panama’s first international […]
It is good to see more people visiting Panama and we are not the only country seeing a resurgence in the tourism industry here in Central America. Here is an article fro La Prensa Three years after the global economic downturn, tourists are once again looking at Central America. Tourism in the isthmus grew […]
Leave it my friend Don Winner to find this great video. Here is his post which I can’t agree with more. By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com – You know, there are a few institutions in Panama that I fully support, mostly because they bring more tourists to Panama, which means more money and business opportunities, which means and […]
The new International Airport at Rio Hato will propel Panama faster towards becoming a world class destination as the area supports thousands of hotel rooms yet it is a couple of hours by bus from the Tocument International Airport presently used by most people visiting Panama. I remember when I first visited Punta Cana in the […]
I have always praised Panama for not only hosting some of the best fisheries in the world with records in Black Marlin and more, but for also taking steps towards conserving this wonder resource. Bravo President Martinelli for helping to insure that this continues. by the IGFA Ricardo Martinelli, President of the Republic of Panama, […]
We have been taking people around Boquete looking at places to live, invest in agriculture land and business opportunities and every time I go out, I see another place that reminds me of the first trip that I took here in 2006. On my first road trip to Boquete, I knew I had finally found a place that […]
If you own a home in Boquete or Boca Chica and might consider a move to Brazil, you should look at this opportunity. We have a friend who visited our community here in Valle Escondido and has decided to sell his home in Brazil and move here. He has a beautiful seaside villa on the […]
I recently read an article in The Visitante that spoke to one of Panama’s greates resources that is just now being tapped. I have mixed emotions about the subject after watching the fishery in South Florida deteriorate over the 35 years that I lived in South Florida and hope that Panama does not have the […]