NEWS ON TOURISM IN PANAMA

News US tourists. They are most travel to Panama

United States tops the list of the top ten countries that joined tourists to the country between January and June this year, according to a report by the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP).

In this period he was recorded the arrival of 180.876 US Panamanian soil. It is followed by the North American country, Colombia with 136.319 tourists; Venezuela with 134.471; Spain, 42.325; Brazil, 41.772; Argentina, 37.404; Mexico, with 35,539; Ecuador, 33.049; Costa Rica, and Peru 31.179 with 22.449 visitors, which explains the rise of 1% of visitors who entered the country in the first half of this year.

The report also notes that the arrival of US inland area represents 18.5% of total arrivals by Tocumen International Airport. Here, too, they followed the Colombians visitors (13.9%) and Venezuela (13.7%).

The ATP said the average visitor stay in Panama is approximately 8.5 days and spends on average a total of $ 1.838 and $ 216 a day.

VISITS BY REGION

Arrivals of visitors by region increased, highlights the report of authority in regions such as the West Indies (17.7%), Oceania (17.5%), Central America (2.3%), Europe (5.8%), Asia (13.1% ) and Africa (4.3%).

While the regions of North America and South America decreased by 1.8% and 0.6%, respectively.

Meanwhile, the entry of visitors to Panama, according to class passengers in the period from January to May, showed that the country received 1,070,713 tourists; 131.963 102.106 cruise passengers and day visitors.

In an interview with La Estrella de Panama, the administrator of the ATP, Gustavo Him, he said they have their hopes for the international advertising campaign that the Cabinet endorsed the VML, INC advertising in the amount of $ 20 million, which will be executed between 2016 and 2018.

Him said that to compensate for the lack of existing promotion since 2012, ATP made strategic alliances with airlines and industry-leading companies.

However, he acknowledges that it is not enough to fill the rooms of the Panama hotel supply, which in recent years has been a significant decline in occupancy.

'Our strategy is focused on filling it room' he said then.

NEWS BY: ANDREA RODRIGUEZ