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Bogotá confirms its status as the country’s top tourist destination for international travelers, becoming the Colombian city with the largest number of events held.

According to the latest ranking published by the National Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), among the cities with the highest realization of events, international Bogotá, improving its position in the Latin American and global context.

The city rises from ninth to sixth place (improving three places), and jumped from place 79 to place 47 world ranking.

The document also highlights noted that during the first quarter of Bogotá, received 208,536 passengers, while the country’s 397,868 international visitors arrived by air.

For the capital of the Republic, this volume represents an increase of 18.5% over the same period last year, while the country is an increase of 15.3% compared with that period in 2010.

The largest number of visitors to the city comes from countries like the United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Spain and Ecuador, mainly. This result allows us to highlight the recovery of Venezuela and Brazil, countries that increased their tourists to Bogota at 10.8% and 65.8% respectively.

“The IDT will continue to support directly to Bogota Convention Bureau and all employers in the sector, as it has been doing for several years and will continue to work vigorously on the frontlines of the international positioning of Bogotá and in improving their competitiveness Tourist “he said, Onshore Isabel Vargas Castro, District Director of the Institute of Tourism of Bogota.

Bogotá increases the arrival of foreign visitors from neighboring countries, and several journalists from international media, who discover the benefits of these destinations and enjoy the cultural agenda is being prepared as a supplement to the World Cup party.

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