Tourists from around theworldcameto Rio for the World Cup and98.8% termed it a positive experience. 

Travelers use their vacations to help local communities in Ecuador. 

The hotels in Panama City, Panama are among the 10best places to visit in Central America in 2014, so said World Travel Trip Advisor. 

The Inca trail in parts of the Andes still retains its original structure. 

While tens of thousands of US citizens visit Honduras each year for study, tourism, business, and volunteer work without incident, crime and violence are serious problems throughout the country, and the Government of Honduras lacks the resources to address these issues.

Beginning in 2015, Honduras will be a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, where it will promote sustainable tourism and combat insecurity. 

Machu Picchu was voted the most desired destination in the world, according to the budget accommodation firm, Hostelworld.com.  The suspension bridge that they call Q’eswachaca was recognized by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

When you look at the beautiful pictures of the Dominican Republic, homeless life on the beach can look pretty good to people from colder climes. 

The Dominican Republic’s 2013 visitor numbers grew by 3.6% over the previous year, outpacing the entire Caribbean region, which recorded growth in tourism of only 1%.  Tourism minister Francisco Javier García described it as “an extraordinary year.” 

Michael Allen went to meet his wife for a vacation on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast and found that having arrived two weeks earlier she “had bought some land near the town of Ojochal” in the jungle.  He wondered if she had gone crazy.