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Playa Blanca Resort to Construct Biggest Toilet in the World
By The Boss on Mar 25, 2008 | In Expat, Business | 1 feedback »
Here's another crazy insight into the wicked minds of Panama's ever expanding tourism sector. First they want beachfront land. They've been buying and driving up prices everywhere. Beach is nice, beach is tropical, beach it had to be. But then it turns out that they don't want to actually use the beach. Sand in your ears, creepy animals, dirty water. How to solve this problem without relocating the whole resort? Simple. Build a new beach behind the other one!
The picture is from Chile, but this is what the Playa Blanca resort is planning on the Pacific coast, reports Casey Halloran, who is one of the few tourism entrepreneurs not living in Lalaland:
Panama never got the memo: giant hotels are out, boutique hotels and eco-projects are IN.
In yet another move that supports the common belief here in Panama that when it comes to beach projects, “gaudy-is-good”, the Playa Blanca resort project is promoting plans to construct the second largest swimming pool in the world.
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Three cheers for Panama — the new, 1970’s Hawaii!
I thought Panamanian tourism minister Ruben Blades contracted fancy studies and engineered a “Tourism Master Plan” to prevent this type of schmaltz?
Read the whole post, here.
