Visitors can access maps and information about attractive places in Panama on their phones. It is now possible to book and plan your next vacation to Panama directly on visitpanama.com

Panama City, Panama -- (SBWire) -- 11/15/2011 --Taking advantage of recent technological advances, Panama has begun offering its visitors Virtual Tourist Maps - which they can use before or during their stay to take advantage of all the attractions that the country has to offer. Thanks to the new information system, based on geographic coordinates (GPS), visitors have updated maps on all domestic destinations, photos and all other important data. Tourists can access and interact with these maps through their mobile devices (blackberry, iPhone, iPad, and Garmin) and learn about places of interest, distances, main and secondary roads as well as traffic rules. If that is not enough, travelers will also be able to find the latest in accommodations, information on more than 70,000 businesses, tourism operators, routes and coordinates.

The mobile applications can be downloaded directly from this link: http://m.visitpanama.com

In order to facilitate the tourist’s experience, a reservation system or an integrated booking system has been launched in Panama’s official international tourism site: visitpanama.com. While visiting the website to learn about the tourism in Panama, individual reservations and packages that include hotels, flights and cars can be easily purchased from the same site. The reservation system offers everything from the simplest to the most luxurious hotels and the latest deals on promotional packages.

“For the Tourism Authority of Panama it is a priority to give visitors the best deal possible by making it more accessible, so that as a result your visit to Panama is more enjoyable. For this reason, we decided to implement an avant-garde system with which the visitor can discover and enjoy Panama more easily,” said Ernesto Orillac, Deputy Minister of Tourism Authority of Panama.

About Panama
Panama is an authentic and unexplored destination of exuberant nature and enchanting history; a hidden gem between two seas. With a prime location, in the center of the continent allowing it to be the main air hub in Latin America, the country offers the most stunning landscapes and diverse ecosystems in forests, beaches, mountains and the Canal Zone, as well as an exquisite combination of its rich and ethnic colonial past, and the benefits and prosperity of the modern world. The Panama Canal, which happens to be the eighth wonder of the world, is the symbol of an enterprising country that besides being a logistic center for excellence is the most important financial center of the Americas; home to major multinational corporations and a free trade zone. The Old Town of the capital, Panama City, has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Panama has natural attractions, services, hotels as well as a massive Convention Center to fit the adventure and pleasure traveler as well as the business traveler. http://www.visitpanama.com