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Nica Tourism is up in 2009

Submitted by kevins on Sat, 2009/07/25 - 22:49.
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http://www.nicatimes.net/nicaarchive/2009_07/0724091.htm

"In the first five months of 2009, tourism in Nicaragua grew by 11 percent, even as most of the world experienced a downward trend....Costa Rica, for example, has seen tourism fall by 13 percent in the first trimester of 2009."

For those of you in Nicaragua: Does that sound right?

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up tick in tourism

Submitted by El Lobo in Fla. on Mon, 2009/08/24 - 22:05.

El Lobo Saint Petersburg Fla. I have been coming to Nicaragua as a missionary with my church for 7 years, we always say we are tourist. With the mess to the north and the drug wars in Mexico I know for a fact more short term missionaries from the US and Canada are coming to Nica.

Mario Salinas office reported...

Submitted by JGiraldezB on Sun, 2009/07/26 - 09:54.

...a 9 percent increase in Tourism in July. So the numbers kinda match. Maybe its all those Gringo-Ticos comin over to get a better deal in Nicaland...A hotel owner friend of mine in SJDS who just hosts Europeans at his posh place told me that he was getting a lot of Gringos from Costa Rica staying with him lately.

We got two knocking at the front door at our place in Casares wanting to rent a few rooms for the week????We had just bought the place the day before???? Both from North Florida and have developemnts in Costa Rica. They liked Fishing off the shore Jorge Giraldez-Benard Latin American Advisors Company Ltd Texaco El Cortijo 1/2 C al Sur Casa 300 Res. El Cortijo, Managua, Nicaragua C.A.. e-mail JorgeGiraldez@yahoo.com Skype, YahooPager & MSN User name: JGiraldezB Man

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Submitted by mjt on Sat, 2009/07/25 - 22:59.

I am not sure how it was measured or how that data was used: But, in neighboring Honduras, Hondurans who return home following work or tourism or even illegal U.S. entry, are all counted as "tourists" when they re-enter Honduras. In other words, numbers could spike in any direction due to any number of things, none of which might involve an actual increase in good old fashioned, "tourism". As each of the last few years has found Honduras embroiled in easily transferable diseases, drug-gang massacres, earthquakes, airline price hikes, mass criminal activity, etc., tourism has vastly improved. I am not sure what to make of it. I just assume it is like most other Honduran accounting matters... - though I might be wrong in that assumption.

not sure how it was measured

Submitted by JGiraldezB on Sun, 2009/07/26 - 10:13.

usually they count the TOURIST CARDS....

Jorge Giraldez-Benard Latin American Advisors Company Ltd Texaco El Cortijo 1/2 C al Sur Casa 300 Res. El Cortijo, Managua, Nicaragua C.A.. e-mail JorgeGiraldez@yahoo.com Skype, YahooPager & MSN User name: JGiraldezB