Why Panama?

IN advertising material, our niche tourism around the world is sterile. Despite enjoying a romantic history, numerous attractions, incomparable gastronomy and a great story to sell the destination, all the efforts for a strong take-off of our anemic visitor numbers, despite an inevitable bite of resources to make our fate known proved futile.

In principle, laissez faire in chimney sweeping is attributed to the bloody absence of state politics, i.e. the incoming president tourism is not interested in anything. Because of this, the choice of the regent in the official tourism body was unfortunate, as well as the lack of serious commitment to elevate the industry that could green the chaotic state of official finances.

Once we understand that we can use our offer at optimal levels and enjoy serious commitment exceeds the validity of the presidential mandate, The Ministry of Tourism needs to restructure, more than a regulatory body, a productive unit with trackable goals from year to year, without the excuses that are always sought for continuous failures. For example, if terminal 2 of Tocumen Airport is not operating, cSince he didn’t, we would have to remove his head.

We would have to take inventory of what we have to polish its appeal. Case in hand, Old Town. First of all, relieve all the public entities of the square, their officials and maps to the Government City in the returned areas. This would eliminate the unnecessary flow of bureaucrats in the area of ​​our highest tourist density and their usurpation of parking spaces.

At the same time, all properties that are in a state of abandonment and decay would have to be liquidated in a short period of time with careful planning of their expeditious restoration according to strict architectural parameters of the area.

To improve and expand tourist activity outside the city walls, traffic autonomy projects should be foreseen, such as a tourist tram that starts from Plaza 5 de Mayo, along Central Avenue and Casco, flows through Chinatown towards Cinta Costera, apparently transforming the area from what it is into a new magnet for tourism.

These dynamic transformation activities would be implemented in all identified locations. Summit Garden, in this way would become a must-see place run by the Smithsonian as an important revenue center just like his museums in Washington.

Disney could manage the ruins of Panama La Vieja, partially rebuilding them so that visitors can relive the colonial experience, adding a galley that could serve as a permanent restaurant. The level of the Chaine de Rotisseurs, which connects you to the Camino Real this would allow transit to Portobelo, similar to the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain.

And we don’t stay there, we take advantage of new places. As an example, the path to the top Pechito Parao hill in our Darienwhere Balboa first saw the vast South Sea, the most important discovery in history.

universal history allowing the true expansion of world trade, It would be the world’s optimal example of adventure tourism, which would enable the development of a perimeter for superior ecological tourism.

In short, all these changes would maximize our tourism, metamorphosing the Isthmus into a global tourism axis with a capacity of 20 to 30 million visitors per year instead of a static thermometer of 2 million, which for example surpassed the small town of Buga in Colombia, nothing more in religious tourism. Only by freeing ourselves from the Third World hat of Lilliput will we achieve these goals.