Central America expanded the product range for Europe by new direct flights by Iberia. Central America expanded the range of tourist products for Europe through new direct flights by Iberia. Thanks to the agreement of share code with the TACA airline for Iberia San Salvador is a hub for flights to other cities such as Managua and Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Suala. San Salvador, September 20, 2010 – from 2 October belongs also San Salvador to the destinations in Central America, which are served by Iberia since end of 2004: Costa Rica, Panama, and Guatemala. Thus Iberia rises the airlines to the leader, regarding the route Europe and Central America.
Thanks to the agreement of share codes with TACA and their extensive flight network, Iberia is the junction on the capital of Salvador, to facilitate the onward journey or from Managua and Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to passengers and without to provide larger stay. This will make the tourist offer not only for El Salvador, but for the entire region of Central America be accessible for tourists from the main cities in Europe. The countries of the region; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, based on a complete tourist offer under the brand name: Central America, so klein…und yet so big… “, with which the region since 2002 as a multi destination” marketed. One of the most important tourist products is the Mayan civilization, a culture of over 3000 years old, whose traces man still in Belize (Caracol), El Salvador (La Joya del Ceren, Tazumal, Casa Blanca), Guatemala (Tikal) and Honduras (Copan) finds. The cultural offer of the region includes styles from the colonial era, which reflected in palaces, churches, monasteries, cathedrals, paintings and sculptures in cities such as Antigua in Guatemala, Leon and Granada in Nicaragua, Portobelo and Casco Antiguo in Panama and in ethnic groups in Belize and Honduras.