Panama arranged for the Spanish Pullmantur Cruise Line to keep a cruise ship sailing year round from the Colon 2000 Port on the Atlantic coast. The agreement was established last week at the Incentive Tourism Fair, held in the Barcelona, Spain. The extension of Pullmantur cruise ship departures from Panama will be effective as of the 2012-2013 season. Pallmantur started to make use of Colon 2000 Cruise Port two years ago. During its first year, the Spanish cruise line conducted a 9 month season, but during the 2011-2012 season, it trimmed its departures from Panama to 5 months.
Panama’s geographic location and the airline hub at the Tocumen International Airport have drawn the attention of the Spanish Spanair Airline.
The airline company plans to start a flight frequency to Panama, as it is seeking a country where its passengers can make transfers to different destinations. Spanair’s executives gathered with Panamanian businessmen during the last Incentive Tourism Fair, held in the month of December in Barcelona —where the airline is headquartered.
Playa Leona, a picturesque, newly remodeled tourist site, is located 30 minutes away from downtown La Chorrera District and less than an hour away from Panama City. Most of Playa Leona’s population bases their economy on small-scale fisheries, agriculture, and animal husbandry. For many years, it was an ordeal to travel to Playa Leona due to the bad conditions of its roads. Nowadays, however, all its neighbors enjoy a newly constructed road from Nicolas A. Solano Hospital to the coast.
The month of national festivities in Panama concludes its course with parades taking place on November 28, 2011 to celebrate the 190th anniversary of the Spanish Independence.
The 9th edition of the Panama Jazz Festival will be held from January 16th through January 21st in Panama City. Some of the greatest jazz musicians will be participating at this event such as Tito Puente Jr., Charlie Sepulveda, John Scofield, and Luis Bonilla, among other talented jazz artists. Over 25,000 people habitually attend this annual musical event to pleasurably enjoy the exceptional talents in every musical note played at the event.
