Three Costa Rican clinics were yesterday awarded international certification that puts their medical services on a par with those in the United States.

El Salvador will provide a window to the world at the 2009 Central American Travel Market in San Salvador from October 9 to 11.

Riu Hotels & Resorts has chosen the city of Panama to inaugurate the Riu Panama Plaza hotel, its first city establishment and the first of the Riu Plaza brand, on November 1, 2010.

As Washington searches for ways to tame the country's escalating health care costs, more insurers are offering networks of surgeons and dentists in places like India and Costa Rica, where costs can be as much as 80 percent less than in America.

TACA Airlines will become the newest international carrier at Orlando International Airport when it begins scheduled nonstop service to Central America starting Nov. 1.

The decline in passenger numbers on international air routes is showing further signs of abating, according to June numbers released by the International Air Transport Association.

A billion-dollar gentrification project is going to transform the forgotten port town of Limón in Costa Rica into a major Caribbean hot spot.

Pacific Plaza, a medical tourism project in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, is set to come off the drawing board following the incorporation of new partners.

Nicaragua's tourism is heavily affected by the political crisis in neighboring Honduras.

Projecthonduras.com announced that promotional offers of rates as low as 30 percent by hotels and airlines in Honduras are fueling a rise in the country's tourism.

The economic crisis and political instability in Honduras are expected to lead to an 8 percent drop in Central American tourism this year, obliging the region to launch new strategies to recover markets.

El Salvador’s Bahía del Sol hotel is investing $7 million in a project that it hopes will make it one of the region’s leading beach hotels.

Sheraton Panamá Hotel & Convention Center is investing $5.5 million in refurbishing and expanding its restaurants and public areas.

The Nicaraguan government invested $70 million in tourism January through July in an attempt to counter a sharp fall in visitors as a result of the international recession.

Central America received 11.1 million tourists last year, and tourism generated income of $7.3 billion, 5 percent more than in 2008, the Central American Secretariat for the Integration of Tourism (Sitca) reported.