Nicaragua, the Right Move for
Tourists
Being the largest country in Central
America, Nicaragua offers a wide variety of
activities for tourists.
Nicaragua offers a wide variety of touristic
activities that have already attracted
approximately 340 thousand visitors and have
generated us$99 million in revenues during
the first four months of 2010. Being the
largest country in Central America,
Nicaragua offers diverse activities for
tourists, whether it be eco-friendly
adventures, planning a destination wedding,
taking a luxury cruise or simply relaxing at
a Spa & Golf Resort.
Eco-friendly yet adrenaline-raising
activities are available in Nicaragua, such
as sand skiing on the Cerro Negro Volcano,
in the department of Leon, surfing on the
beaches of San Juan del Sur, recently
declared one of the top 10 beach
destinations in Central America, and
paragliding, a recently introduced sport at
Apoyo Lagoon, a thermally vented crater
lake.
Hiking is another popular eco-friendly sport
offered in Nicaragua that allows visitors to
enjoy its forests, which cover 41 percent of
its territory, or visit the Bosawas Reserve
or Ometepe Island, which are two of the
three Biosphere Reserves in Nicaragua,
declared by the UNESCO.
Nicaragua has also grown in popularity when
considering a location for destination
weddings. More people have decided to make
their weddings memorable and original by
choosing among the many touristic
destinations the country offers such as
Granada, one of the oldest cities in America
with great cultural richness or Corn Island
located in the Caribbean. Amongst the many
advantages offered, one can find that there
are no long flights or jetlags and airfare
prices are extremely competitive.
Cruise line companies have also taken a
notice in Nicaragua due to the fact that
Nicaragua offers 720 km of coastline in the
Pacific and Atlantic. The season for cruise
ships is usually between October and April,
when tourists may enter the country for a
day to tour colonial cities such as Granada,
Leon as well as Masaya's craft market. The
Nicaraguan Tourism Board has will soon
invest in new infrastructure projects to
attract more cruise ships, including the
construction of a pier in San Juan del Sur.
The San Juan del Sur project will also
include restaurants, souvenir stores and
other attractions.
The Spa industry has also diversified as
foreign investors have decided to develop
new projects, creating luxury resorts
featuring condominiums, golf & oceanfront
villas, casitas, home sites, equestrian
centers, town centers and oceanfront
destination clubs. Marina Puesta del Sol,
which is located in the Aserradores Estuary
on the North Pacific coast of Nicaragua, has
access to mangrove lined canals and
preserves and protects the unique natural
habitat in its area. Gran Pacifica Beach &
Golf Resort, on the other hand, is the first
New Urbanism community-resort in Central
America and one of the largest tourism
projects in Nicaragua.
According to projections from the Nicaraguan
Tourism Board (INTUR, for its acronym in
Spanish) Nicaragua is expected to receive
more than one million tourists during 2010,
mainly from the Central American region and
the United States. Additionally, tourism
receipts are expected to rise by more than
16 percent. With such a variety of touristic
attractions, laws that promote tourist
investments, such as the Tourism Incentives
Law (Law 306) and its many natural and
unique wonders, the projections are soon to
become a reality.
PRONicaragua is the Nicaraguan Investment
Promotion Agency, established in 2002. It is
a non-profit, public-private institution
whose mission is to generate economic growth
and job creation in Nicaragua by attracting
high-quality foreign direct investment. The
agency provides complimentary support
services to qualified investors seeking
investment opportunities in our country. For
further information, contact at (505)
2270-6400. |
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