The Government wants to promote the natural wealth that has Colombia to attract international hotel investors

During the trip to Spain to participate in the First International Conference on Quality in Tourism, Trade Minister, Sergio Diaz-Granados, used to expose the possibilities of investments by € 1,000 million in infrastructure, housing, agriculture, innovation, mining and energy offered by Colombia.

The minister met with a group of Spanish businessmen who explained the additional item of public expenditure approved by the Government to promote these 5 sectors and create 650,000 new jobs over the next 4 years.

"There is a precise planning to make domestic sales grow rapidly, exports and employment," said Diaz-Granados noting that there are specific plans in other sectors, like telecommunications, cosmetics, automotive, textiles, graphic industry and biofuels.

He explained that in these areas the Government is carrying out partnerships with national and foreign entrepreneurs to facilitate their expansion and encouraged Spanish companies to explore and the Colombian economy is "coming out successfully from the economic crisis."

He highlighted the effort to promote investment in the mining sector, where the government launched a major reform to achieve a primary surplus by 2013 and exceed U.S. $ 55,000 million in exports of goods and services in 4 years.

Colombia wants the leadership and the quality of the Spanish hotel sector is transferred to the country and sees eco-tourism a great business opportunity because of their tax advantages.

For this reason, Diaz-Granados met different Spanish tour operators, hotel chains and service companies interested in exploring new business opportunities.

Pullmantur, Sol Meliá, NH Hotels and El Corte Ingles, are some of the large Spanish companies present in Colombia, although the Government would facilitate the arrival of small and medium enterprises.

Diaz-Granados said that large companies have open spaces that can be dragged to SMEs and open up a new level of trade.

"Spain is a world, tourism is a natural leader and the Government believes that quality and good experience of Spanish tourism can grow in Colombia," he said.

In this regard, he recalled that the country has one of the greatest treasures of the world's natural wealth and is the second richest in biodiversity, which said that "improvements in security and infrastructure, the country will start to grow solid form. "