Tourism in Panama is a huge source of income for the government and private sectors attracting those from around the globe. The boom in tourism is reflected in the construction of residential  complexes, resorts, hotels and other sites contributing to these recent surge in tourism.

The investors have not only come from abroad, tourism in Panama has also aroused an enormous interest in Panamanians of all the social strata, since tourism in Panama has become a window for small and medium size businesses. 

In tourism in Panama we will find from small cabins to luxurious hotels, all of this in addition to the great variety of national arts & crafts that are generated everywhere, since, thanks to the development of tourism in Panama the production of national arts and crafts has increased, making the producers of national arts and crafts participants of tourism in Panama.

The clients of tourism in Panama have different types of interests, since tourism in Panama offers diverse possibilities.  Tourism in Panama accounts for beaches in the Caribbean as well as the Pacific, in addition to a rich ecological potential and it is one of the countries with the most diversity of birds in the world. 

Other strengths for tourism in Panama are the businesses, since tourism in Panama is very popular due to the constant import and export activities of products in the Colon Free Zone, which attracts businessmen from all over the world to make their purchases, and for the ability to learn more about all of what tourism in Panama offers. Since the year 2000 tourism in Panama has increased with the arrival of cruises, two ports were inaugurated in the Atlantic sector and one on the Pacific. 

This has been an important contribution to the growth of tourism in Panama, since during the cruise season (Which begins in the month of October until May) around 155 cruises arrive, that is to say, approximately 240 thousand visitors doing tourism in Panama, which is added to all of the people that develop other type of activities for tourism in Panama. 

This is according to the information from the Panamanian Institute of Tourism, which is the entity in charge of organizing the activities linked to tourism in Panama, and thus of the promotion and favorable development of tourism in Panama.

We cannot leave aside, one of the main attractions of tourism in Panama: The Panama Canal, the inter oceanic route, catalogued as one of the major works of engineering of all times, and thus is for many the main attraction of tourism in Panama, it definitely is a mandatory stop for all of the people that do tourism in Panama.

The Minister of Tourism (IPAT), Ruben Blades, has recently launched a campaign in Europe for the promotion of Panama.  Blades believes that the current track record that Panama has in drawing  tourists from the western hemisphere can stimulate Europeans in like manner. Time will tell. 

Tourism in Panama is increasing, due to the diversity of the alternatives that are offered by the operators of tourism in Panama, the businesses, the cruises, the Panama Canal, the beaches and everything that was previously cited. 

But as the main participants of tourism in Panama say, our visitors, by recommending doing tourism in Panama to other tourists, are the cause of success for tourism in Panama.