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Statistics announced by Colombia’s DANE statistics agency indicate that for the first 3 quarters of 2019, hotel occupancy reached a rate of 56.7%, and hotel revenues rose 11.7% over the same period the previous year, and the highest in the past 14 years. José Manuel Restrepo,...

In the first half of 2019, Colombia’s avocado exports are up 37.6% compared to the same period in 2018, according to ProColombia, Colombia’s export promotion agency, and DANE, the national statistics agency. This in contrast to a global increase in consumption of 3% according to...

In the first half of 2019, the number of international visitors passing through Colombian immigration continues its upward trend, with 2,865,070 foreign nonresident visitors between January & August, according to Colombia’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism...

José Manuel Restrepo, Colombia’s Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism has announced a hotel occupancy rate for March of this year of 58.44% reached by hotel occupancy in March, according to figures released by DANE, Colombia’s national statistics agency. For Restrepo, this...

The 2.8% figure is the best result in any second quarter since 2015 and up from the 2.5% growth seen in the same period during 2017.

Compared to June, the consumer price index fell by 0.13% — significantly below the consensus forecast.

Rising oil prices were the biggest factor. The extractive industry exported $11.8 billion USD — nearly 60% of the nation's export value in the past six months.

This represents an uptick from the 8.7% rate registered in June 2017. The overall second quarter unemployment rate this year was 9.4%

This quarterly GDP growth represents an uptick from the meager 1.8% full-year growth in 2017 and is well above the 1.3% growth in the first quarter of 2017.

More than half of the total, or $1.57 billion USD, came from the hydrocarbon sector, per DANE.