LatinNews Daily - 21 September 2018

* The head of Nicaragua’s chamber of tourism (Canatur), Lucy Valenti, has told reporters that the country has lost some US$400m in tourism revenue as a result of the crisis caused by the government crackdown on protesters which began in mid-April. Last month the government led by President Daniel Ortega launched a new national and international tourism campaign through the Nicaraguan tourism institute (Intur) aimed at boosting the sector. With the slogan ‘Beautiful as ever’, the plan is due to be rolled out until January 2019. In a TV interview broadcast last month, Finance Minister Iván Acosta noted that the crisis had forced 8,600 small businesses in the tourism sector to close, with losses to the sector calculated at US$231m.

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