TOURISM
Project Name and Description
Relevant Information
A feasibility study to determine priorities in archaeological site development to further tourism, covering twelve sites of the Mayan pre-classic and classic periods. A complete financial analysis of the chosen site was prepared. Guidelines for general tourism development were also presented.
| Location: Belize City |
Starting date: April, 1989 | |
| Contractor: RDA - APESA |
Ending date: September, 1989 | |
| Contractee: USAID |
Total personnel: 7 |
The program identified and priorized areas in the Petén in which a combination of archaelogical restoration and facilities to cater to tourists were designed. A general tourism development plan was also designed, with a financial scheme that might make the proposal sustainable.
| Location: Santa Elena, Petén |
Starting date: August, 1989 | |
| Contractor: AHT - APESA |
Ending date: February, 1992 | |
| Contractee: KfW |
Total personnel:19 (APESA) |
Several studies were prepared during the execution of this phase, to promote some of the proposed projects. This included the creation of a development fund nourished through tourism– generated resources. The feasibility of this was presented to INGUAT and the Guatemalan Government.
| Location: Santa Elena, Petén |
Starting date: April, 1992 | |
| Contractor: AHT - APESA |
Ending date: March, 1995 | |
| Contractee: KfW |
Total personnel: 8 (APESA) |
A full component on cultural heritage and tourism was designed, with pre-feasibility studies to restore sites and create services to tourism in seven different sites around Yaxhá and in the Petexbatún area .
| Location: Santa Elena, Petén |
Starting date: January, 1996 | |
| Contractor: Interconsult-Scanteam- APESA |
Ending date:September, 1996 | |
| Contractee: IDB |
Total personnel: 14 (APESA) |
An in-depth analysis of tourism activity in the area revealed that a possibility of ecotourism development might be feasible. Funds designed to perform final feasibility of some of these possible projects were suggested, as well as actions in training and operator marketing activities.
| Location: Esquipulas, Guatemala |
Starting date: January, 2000 | |
| Contractor: Interconsult-APESA- Noragric |
Ending date: January, 2001 | |
| Contractee: IDB |
Total personnel: 11 (APESA) |
Besides the activities described under regional and sector studies, the Consortium and especially IIT undertook studies related to projected tourism activity in the project area, an appraisal on marketing requirements and the building of circuits to the areas in which projects were to be designed
| Location: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, And Mexico |
Starting date:October, 2001 | |
| Contractor: APESA-BCEOM-IIT |
Ending date: April, 2003 | |
| Contractee: IDB |
Total personnel: 26 |
