Honduras seeks to make more tourism bucks

Tegucigalpa._ Honduras is on a quest to garner $650 million through tourism in the next four years and buttress this activity as a fast-growing industry, said Minister of Tourism Thierrie de Pierrefeu.

Mr. Pierrefeu added that the projected goal is to upend the $256 million worth of revenues in 2001 and reach $650 million in the year 2005.

In order to do that, Mr. Pierrefeu believes Honduras should keep a ratio of 1.1 million tourists a year. Some 175,000 visitors came to the country over 2001.

Honduras’ minister of tourism spoke in an event on the industry’s future where a marketing strategy laid out by the German Cooperation Agency (GTZ is the German acronym) was unveiled.