The World Tourism Organization qualified Colombia as an “excellent” tourist destination in its latest report on global tourism.
According to the organization’s chairman german Porras, Colombia “knows how to do it extraordinarily well (…) because it was able to transform reality, especially concerning security and infrastructure and because it has been able to create a brand image of the country that is worth a lot for both its tourist sector an foreign investors.”
The report praises Colombia for having known to double the number of foreign visitors in teh last five years and make the tourism sector the country’s third largest after oil and coal.
Colombian Minister of Industry, Commerce Tourism Luis Guillermo Plata stressed its countries “great efforts” to “revive tourism.”