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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 03 August 2018
In brief: Panama
Panama: On 2 August Panama’s national tourism authority (ATP), a government agency, reported that fewer tourists are visiting Panama. According to ATP, in the first five months of 2018, a total of 1.09m tourists travelled to Panama, representing a 3.8% decrease in tourist arrivals over the same period last year. The local business sector attributes this decline to the government’s failure to promote Panama as a tourist destination. According to Ernesto Orillac, the president of the local tourism association (Apotur), Panama lacks a strategy to promote tourism internationally. Orillac added that it was necessary to negotiate more agreements with tour operators and airlines, as well as to carry out promotion caravans. Although the number of tourists arriving in Panama has decreased, ATP added that visitors who travelled to the country in the first five months of 2018 spent approximately US$2.16bn, up 2.6% on the same period in 2017.
