(Prensa.com) Travel agencies, tour guides and hotels looking for a uniform standard that the service they provide to have a certification of quality that distinguishes a good or bad service. The first stage began with a public consultation is underway. Subsequently, the Panama Tourism Authority will convene a public tender to choose the company that will have the task … [Read more...]
Bocas Flight and Hotel package save up to 50%
(Panama Travel Group) The package has two alternatives, the first includes three days / two nights, and the second includes five days / four nights, including airfare, accommodation, breakfast, hotel taxes and special discounts at restaurants. Prices are per person, based on double occupancy. Save up to 50% on a package which includes flight and hotel to Bocas … [Read more...]
Budget Travel: Panama
(Budget Travel) I will just assume that you have never traveled to Panama, so let me begin by saying that it has a gorgeous landscape which is, for the most part, quite unspoiled. Out of a population of 3 million, more than 1.5 million live in Panama City (the rest are dispersed in little villages around the country). See photos from my trip to Panama. Now, of course, … [Read more...]
Panama beyond the canal
(Canada.com) When my friend Mary took us to the Miraflores Locks, one of the three locks that comprise the Panama Canal, she chose not to stay with us. "I've been there too many times," said the Ottawa native who now lives in Panama. That afternoon in the visitors' centre, standing only metres away from the freighters and cruise ships making their way from ocean to … [Read more...]
Hard to resist the colour, the music, or mood of Panama
(Vancouver Sun) What tiny nation (just 29,762 square miles) is the site of the Free Zone — the second largest import and redistribution centre in the world — boasts an international banking centre with more than 100 banks, the highest per capita income of its region, has a literacy rate of more than 90 per cent and an inflation rate of only 1.2 per cent? It has some of … [Read more...]