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The Government of Nicaragua has assigned to this year 48.3 million euros to various projects for the implementation of infrastructure and tourism services.
Specifically, the joint incentive of the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur) has approved plans to tour the departments (provinces), Rivas (South), Chinandega (west) and Managua.
The projects include the construction of hotels, restaurants and other tourist facilities. It also wants tour operators to facilitate the purchase of vehicles to transport tourists.
INTUR sources as indicated, many of these tourism projects are already under construction, while others will begin to unfold soon.
Nearly 900,000 tourists in 2008
Nicaragua last year received nearly 900,000 foreign tourists. The most visited areas of the country are the colonial cities of Granada (near the lake and Cocibolca near the volcano) and Leon (a World Heritage site, and where lie the remains of the writer Rubén Darío).
Other popular destinations are San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast (the beach is famous among surfers), the San Juan River on the border with Costa Rica and the Caribbean area, which attracts divers.
Projects of Spanish Investors
Specifically, a group of Spanish businessmen have made an initial investment of one million dollars in a tourism project in the paradisiacal island of Ometepe, in southeastern Nicaragua. "We believe in the island of Ometepe is a huge potential, we want to help diversify and expand the tourism offer, which has the quality of Granada and San Juan del Sur," the Spanish businessman Josep Carbonell in a press conference in Managua hotel.
The project, called "Casa Hacienda San Juan de la Isla, was born a year ago and is remodeling a former cattle ranch on 20.5 acres, located in the town of Altagracia, on the island to accommodate tourists.
"We take the task of restoring and from that we can put a real estate project. Then the components are to build a shelter and a condominium offers, either as eco-farms, cottages and condominiums on the beachfront, Carbonell said.
The project includes construction of 30 rooms on this island, situated in the Great Lake of Nicaragua and is considered one of the most spectacular in the country.
The Spanish group is member of the Mediterranean Foundation, based in Valencia, and along with Nicaraguan partners, aims to attract investors "to optimize the natural conditions which the island of Ometepe," said Carbonell.
By early December opened its doors to the public nationally and internationally, investors said.
Ometepe island whose name in Nahuatl means "two hills" being formed by two volcanoes next to each other, has an area of 276 square kilometers and has a population of 37,000 inhabitants.
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