Honduras: The Central America You Know – The Country You’ll Love
The Inter-American Development Bank announced it would forgive $4.4 billion in debt owed by five of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The bank excused the foreign debts of B...
US officials and 5 Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) signed a free trade pact (CAFTA), to be later approved by Congress. The Dominican Republic...
The development objective of the Regional Development in the Copan Valley Project is to achieve sustainable tourism development based on the cultural and natural patrimony of the Copan Valley and t...
The Sustainable Coastal Tourism Project will enable the development, and management of tourism along the North Coast mainland, and the offshore Bay Islands of Honduras, through a participatory proc...
An accord was signed to protect the 620-mile Caribbean coral reef system by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
Members of the Mundo Maya are rhetorically committed to facilitating regional travel, improving tourism infrastructure, and conserving the major archaeological and ecological resources in the eff...
The Honduran government was forced to revoke a 40-year forest concession it had granted to a Chicago-based paper company, Stone Container, after thousands of Hondurans marched in protest.
"Copán was declared a National monument by means of Presidential Accord No.185, June 24, 1982; text of the accord was published in La Gaceta, November 26, 1982." Lena Mortensen's Dissertation
"The success of PAC I led to a second phase, this time with financing from the World Bank. PAC II, directed by William Sanders of Penn State University, officially ran from 1980- 1985, but offshoo...
PAC I, directed by French archaeologist, Claude Baudez, ran from 1977-9. Overall the program made significant infrastructure improvements to facilitate tourism and further archaeological research...
"In 1961, Honduras only received approximately 52,000 foreign visitors, many of whom came for business purposes rather than for leisure (Ritchie et al. 302)." --Lena Mortensen's Dissertation
"From approximately 1952–1995 the Cop ́an Valley in western Honduras was the site of intensive production of flue-cured tobacco." -- William Loker
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