Tourism in Panama

Tourism represents one of the main activities of Panama. The main areas of tourism in the country focus on business tourism, beaches and trade [1] Most of the tourists come from United States, Canada, Europe, Central America and South America.[2] Annual tourism generates profits of approximately 1,400 million USD.[3] This figure has increased rapidly since the 2004 arrived the million tourist.[4] 2011 saw the arrival of 2 million tourists.[5]

Panama was in 2013 visited by about 1,527,228 tourists at the airport of Tocumen. In Panama a tourist, on average, spends 365-385 USD per day, the highest per capita tourist spending in Central America,[6][7] while the average tourist in Panama stays for between 6 and 7 days.

In 2011, Panama was visited by more than 2 million tourists, an increase of 18% compared to 2010. The New York Times magazine placed Panama as the best place to visit in 2012 as the country's economy is working well, with Panama having regained the control of the Canal 12 years ago. For the daily the hallmark of the country is the inter-oceanic way and its extension, which must end in 2014, with an investment of billions of dollars. This also include the construction of the Waldorf Astoria Panama, the first Waldorf Astoria hotel in Latin America, which opened in March 2013; Trump Ocean Club, which opened in 2010, and BioMuseo, a center of natural history that is expected to open in early 2013, the old part of the city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, and the archipelago of Bocas del Toro, which is used by backpackers.

References

  1. ↑ "It presented Panama as a tourist destination (in Spanish)". Retrieved October 27, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Panamá will invest 28 million euros over the next five years to boost tourism (in Spanish)". Retrieved October 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Tourism generates B/1.368 million until October (in Spanish)". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ "An Argentine will be the 'million tourist'". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Panamá will close the 2010 with 1.7 million visitors, 150,000 more than the previous year". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Arrival of Tourists to Panamá increases 14.2 percent (in Spanish)". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Tourism in Panamá increased by 14.2 percent". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
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