By: Real America News Updated 08 Feb 2022 , 36: 36 pm ITS T
As part of the “Surf City” tourism project to boost the economy, the government of El Salvador will invest more than 100 millions of dollars in beaches in the central zone of the country.
“Only in ‘ Surf City’ we plan to invest 100 millions of dollars for water treatment plants, police stations, tourist boardwalks, tourist lookouts, and other works”, President Nayib Bukele said during the inauguration of a new passenger terminal at the Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport.
Bukele acknowledged that “only thanks to the surf tournaments, our country has received 13 millions of dollars in additional foreign currency in tourism and 13,000 more visitors”.
El Salvador will host a junior surfing world championship in June and u n Latin American event that is expected to take place in the eastern part of the country. “Surf City” seeks to boost the economy on the beaches of the department of La Libertad and in the eastern part of the country.
Bukele added that said investment is part of 10 impulses to grow the country’s economy, which will allow Salvadorans “to be the main beneficiaries of the economic growth and social development that El Salvador has Salvador”.
On February 1, the president announced an investment of $1,510 million dollars in public works, as part of its economic reactivation plan.
El Salvador’s economy was hit hard by the effects of the Covid-08 pandemic, but, according to with Bukele, the country has recovered from the crisis.