Juana Téllez wrote in El Espectador of Bogotá about short, local trips, or “small tourism.”  Despite its appeal, it can be plagued by crowds and traffic jams. 

Jack Eidt  wrote in Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa that “sleepy Trujillo now finds itself at a cross-roads.”  The “Banana Coast” cruise ship port deal which promises to change everything has already been inked and foreigners, mainly from Canada, are filing in to buy a small part of their dream of a wild tropical paradise.

In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Anahí Cazas reported that a Senate committee is reviewing the proposed creation of a fund to protect Bolivia’s “World Heritage” sites. 

  La Tribuna of Tegucigalpa wrote that representatives of the National Chamber of Tourism of Honduras (CANATURH) believe that between January and March 2014 the country will receive around 13,000 tourists from Canada, the U.S., and Europe,

DominicanToday of Santo Domingo reported that the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) and the 2013 NBA Championship team, the Miami HEAT, are pleased to announce their 2013/2014 partnership.  

The citadel of Chan Chan in the Peruvian region of La Libertad is recognized as one of the most impressive sites in the New World, observed La República of Lima. 

So noted Alberto José Patino Mojica in El Tiempo of Bogotá.  Although it sounds like a cliché, Pijao, a town of 6,600 inhabitants located in the department of Quindio in the Central Cordillera, “seems frozen in time.” 

According to Dom Phillips in Folha de São Paulo “the continent-sized country also has a vast interior, with forests, mountain ranges (serras) and plateaux (chapadas) of at times staggering beauty.

El Comercio of Quito boasted that Ecuador is among the least expensive tourist destinations in the world.  According to china.org.cn, it is among the 10 cheapest.  In first place is India, where “ the daily expenditure of the country is the lowest of world.” 

So observed Natalia Ramos in PáginaSIETE of La Paz.  Nora Bayerman, one of the venders in the central tourist area of ​​La Paz, says that business is not what it was.