But not for long! The past year has put new ideals into practice concerning the tourism industry in El Salvador with a keen eye focused on ecotourism. The start of 2008 saw the launch of www.elsalvadorexperience.com, which was designed to highlight El Salvador in the international market as an emerging ecological destination, connecting the newbies with the experts to share the country’s best kept secrets.

With a sorted past that it would happily like forgotten, at least when it comes to investors and tourists, El Salvador has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to compete with nearby hotspots such as Costa Rica and Panama. What makes El Salvador so appealing for many is that it is still virtually untouched, as opposed its well trampled neighbors.

The Eco Experiencias project, found at www.elsalvadorexperience.com, has helped Salvadorian communities, workers cooperatives and others to invent the kind of product that eco-tourists are currently buying: experiences that highlight unique cultural, natural, and geographical qualities of untouched Salvadorian regions.

The web-site divides El Salvador into regions, equal in beauty: the Volcanoes, the Forests and Mangroves Region, The Route of the Flowers, and the Western Pacific. Each destination provides unique scenery that is virtually untouched, and at the fraction of the price as in other more popular neighboring countries.

For more information on eco-tourism in El Salvador, visit www.elsalvadorexperience.com.

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