15.01.09 – Updated: 15.01.09 11:08 pm – Writing: redaccion@laprensa.hn
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Despite the international crisis, the estimated investment of approximately $ 600 million in tourism infrastructure projects for 2009.

Tomorrow opens the resort The Cove, which includes a convention center that has a cost of $ 1.5 million and a 60-room hotel valued at $ 20 million.

Similar work is carried out in La Ceiba, which will include a convention center, theme park and a marina which will open next March.

“The same group of Honduran businessmen who built this work in La Ceiba, is associated with French entrepreneurs to develop projects in Roatan, Copan and Tegucigalpa,” the president of the Honduran National Chamber of Tourism, Canahtur, Epaminondas Marinakis.

Other projects

With satisfaction, Canahtur presented a package of initiatives that develop in the northern coast and Bay Islands that will enhance and diversify the attraction of new investment, increase the number of existing jobs and generate foreign exchange to the country.

Marinakis said in Roatan hotel project develops international magnitude that includes villas, condominiums and a golf course. The Carnival cruise TNC built at a cost of $ 50 million, Roatan cruise ship docks.

“We expect the first cruise ship dock in November this year,” Blatter said. It also advances the construction of the hotel complex known as Bay of Tela, which already accounts for an investment of 15 million.

“We expect the first cruise ship dock in November this year”

Epaminondas Marinakis
President Canahtur