thepanamareport.com - 2/26/2009
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Drive around Panama for weeks or months in a rental car? Ha! You can't actually rent a car in Panama for $50/week. The mandatory insurance alone is $12/day. It's $150/week for the smallest, manual shift car. That's a big chunk of the budget tourist's budget per week. Not to mention, a tiny car ...
tulsaworld.com - 2/19/2009
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The power company that had sought to build
it withdraws an air permit application. By SUSAN HYLTON...
World Staff Writer Published: 2/18/2009 2:30 AM Last Modified: 2/18/2009 3:17 AM PANAMA Global power giant AES has dropped its air permit application ...
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Coal plant proposal abandoned
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Recession May Hinder Sustainable Tourism
Worldwatch Institute —
... "It is a group of cost-conscious guests that's very different from the high-end travelers that have boomed throughout much of the past decade," Landau wrote. "2009 is likely to see a decrease in long distance trips like the one your parents took to Asia, instead favoring mid-range jaunts of which Panama falls perfectly into the radar." ...
Recession May Hinder Sustainable Tourism
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... optimistic. Matt Landau, founder of the online real estate newsletter The Panama Report , is calling the tourism possibilities spawned by the economic downturn "recession tourism." Students, the recently unemployed, and "midlife crisis individuals who can't afford a convertible" may help the ecotourism market stay afloat, he predicts. "It is a group of cost-conscious guests that's very different from the high-end travelers that have boomed throughout much of the past decade," Landau wrote . "2009 is likely to see a decrease in long distance trips like the one your parents ...
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