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. 

Our region is already well-known worldwide for its culture, direct interaction with nature, and ancestral traditions. These are the transparent objectives of travelers in search of this lifestyle, where they can take souvenirs and memorable experience of this adventure. 

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.

On this occasion, a group of travelers from the United States visited us at Boquete Tree, in search of extreme adventure and a beautiful mountain landscape of this place. The travelers enjoyed the excellent weather and a tour full of adrenaline, as they were able to travel at a maximum speed of 80/kmph while canopying. 

The 9^th edition of the Panama Jazz Festival will be held from January 16^th through January 21^st 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.

People came from everywhere, and despite the gray sky and the rain, which served as a backdrop, the parade marched on. The streets were filled and embellished with colorful traditional costumes. The traditional gold costumes illuminated the way. They revived old traditional tunes accompanied by drums, accordions, and joyous marching bands. As the Thousand Pollera Parade proceeded through the city of Las Tablas, more women dressed in traditional pollera costumes, came out of doorways and from balconies, and joined this majestic parade. There were so many polleras, and it is believed that there were approximately 10,000 in all. The polleras —montunas, ocueñas, and gala— shined during the sunset. They were welcomed with admiration by hundreds of journalist cameras. The polleras danced for the sole recompense of rescuing the Panamanian folkloric tradition, which revived with the rain that an admiring sky poured on them.

The visitors, who choose Panama as a destination for vacationing or doing business, have been utilizing the tourist insurance services that Panama offers.

Statistics from the Tourism Authority of Panama indicate that, from January through October, 850 medical visits were provided within the coverage, which is offered through the ASSA and Generalli insurance companies.

Rain did not prevent the City of Las Tablas, located in the province of Los Santos, from being embellished by more than 7 thousand Polleras who paraded during the Thousand Pollera Parade.

The medical tourism industry, which generates over $60 billion by proving high-quality and low-cost health care to travelers around the world, is becoming prevalent in Panama