Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)

GUATEMALA | Record visits. On 28 January the head of Guatemala’s national tourism institute (Inguat), Pedro Duchez, revealed that 2.1m foreign nationals visited the Central American country in 2013, 2.5% more than in the previous year and a new record. In fact Duchez said that this was the first time in its history that Guatemala received over 2m tourists. Significantly, Duchez pointed out that Inguat’s figures show that the number of tourists visiting Guatemala has shown an upwards trend for the past three years. He said that this trend should continue this year when he expects the figure to increase by 3%-4% on the back of the government’s new US$3.8m international tourism promotion campaign launched at the start of the year. Highlighting the growing importance of Guatemala’s tourism industry in the domestic economy, Duchez also pointed out that the sector generated US$1.4bn for the country in 2013, making tourism the third most important source of foreign currency for the country behind exports (US$10bn) and remittances from abroad (US$5bn).

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