For the Dominican Republic’s Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier García, this year has been one of the best for the tourism industry over the past four decades. 

A few days ago, I returned from an inspection visit of Isla Colón, Bocas del Toro. During the trip, there were a few things that caught my attention and I wish to share these with my readers.

Mompox, “a perfectly preserved and isolated colonial town surrounded by wetlands in northern Colombia, can feel like making a journey into the past,” at least for now. 

The XXIII Meeting of the Regional Subcommittee of the International Council of Museums in Latin America and the Caribbean (ICOFOM LAM), whose central theme was “diversity and confluences in thinking about the Latin American museum” was held for the first time in Panama at the Museo del Canal Interoceánico. 

The last watermill artisan in the country attended the event which took place on November 22 in the ExpoMundoRural 2015. The agricultural summit also included music and typical cuisine.

Corpoturismo denounced the “precarious electrical service” in the “Heroic City” that affects residents and tourists alike. 

Mexico is the second destination for health tourism in the world, with the arrival of more than 1 million foreigners a year looking for some kind of treatment. 

The new curb on dollar transfers is driving the tourism sector to implement new measures that could make trips abroad for Argentines more expensive, sources in the sector warned. 

Ecuador launched an effort with the theme “emotions don’t have a price.” 

The Jesuit Square Shopping Center in Ciudad del Este, the tourist port of Presidente Franco, and improvements to the Museum of Itaipú are among the attractions being developed in Paraguay’s “tourist region.”