Category

Finance Colombia recently visited Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ (NYSE: HOT) recently opened W Bogotá in Bogotá’s north side, possibly Colombia’s premier luxury hotel designed for the high-end business traveler with tastes running towards the modern. The hotel presents a markedly...

Due to increasing domestic and international demand for air travel, Aerocivil, Colombia’s civil aviation authority has announced decisions on a number of new domestic and international air routes petitioned by commercial carriers for 2015. Lan Colombia received approvals for the...

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)  [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)]  has announced the opening of the Holiday Inn Express Cartagena Bocagrande hotel in Cartagena. The new, 200-room hotel is the second IHG property in Cartagena and IHG’s 12th property in Colombia. A third Cartagena...

Meetings between Finance Colombia and the Council of American Enterprises at the latter’s headquarters in the Chicó district of Bogotá, were pleasantly interrupted by a serenade from Vallenato rising star Beimar Toledo, accompanied by his lovely publicist, Liliana Torre...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has approved a $22.4 million dollar loan guarantee for Apple Bank for Savings of New York to finance the export of U.S.-made AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters to borrower North Pole Investments in Panama for us...

Copa Airlines (NYSE:CPA) and Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced on Friday, a $6.6 billion US dollar (based on Boeing’s published list prices) order for 61 737 MAX-8 and MAX-9 airplanes, making it the largest commercial transaction between a Panamanian and United States company ever....

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) has announced expansion to its service between the United States and Colombia with new flights from its largest hub in Atlanta to Medellin and Cartagena starting December 19 of this year. Tickets for the flights are already available for purchase....

Considered by some to be the premier motorcycle industry event in Colombia; the ninth edition of the Fair of Two Wheels Colombia is bringing an extensive business agenda and many great attractions for industry professionals and motorcycle enthusiasts. This year the fair will open...

Fitch Ratings has issued the following statement this morning regarding the credit outlook of Avianca Holdings. Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of Avianca Holdings S.A.’s (Avianca Holdings) and its subsidiaries as follows: Avianca Holdings S.A. (Avianca Holdings)...

This year’s guest nation at Colombia’s “Féria Internacionál del Libro” will be Macondo, the fictional country imagined by the late “Gabo,” Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the Colombian author who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. A 3,000 square-meter pavilion honoring the...