{"id":216850,"date":"2023-08-02T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/?p=216850"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:57:30","slug":"denise-guillen-zuniga-new-general-administrator-of-the-panama-tourism-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/denise-guillen-zuniga-new-general-administrator-of-the-panama-tourism-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Guill\u00e9n Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, new General Administrator of the Panama Tourism Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, President of the Republic of Panama, has appointed Denise Guill\u00e9n Z\u00fa\u00f1iga as the new General Administrator of the Panama Tourism Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atp.gob.pa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a>), succeeding Ivan Eskildsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A specialist in tourism planning, Denise Guill\u00e9n Z\u00fa\u00f1iga is a legal and financial professional. She played a key role in the development of Panama&#8217;s Master Plan for Coastal Tourism Development and helped update the Master Plan for Sustainable Tourism 2020-2025, which we discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/making-panama-a-world-class-sustainable-destination-is-our-goal\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our exclusive interview with Ivan Eskildsen in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to her appointment, she served as Deputy Administrator General of ATP since 2019 and as Director of Investments at ATP from 1994 to 1999. She was also a member of the Presidential Commission for Capture and Incentives for Cruise Lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magda Dur\u00e1n, who has a post-doctorate in Government and Tourism, has been appointed Deputy Administrator of ATP. Previously, she held the position of General Secretary within the entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara S\u00e1nchez S\u00e1ez, who has a degree in Law and Political Science, has been appointed General Secretary of ATP. She previously held a number of positions at the Panamanian Institute of Tourism (IPAT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These appointments signal a new phase in the development of tourism in <a href=\"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/panama-2\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panama<\/a>, which has recorded the highest figures in its history since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Guill\u00e9n Z\u00fa\u00f1iga becomes the head of Panama\u2019s Tourism Authority, ushering in a new era for the country\u2019s sustainable tourism development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16783,8183],"tags":[19564,7615,7549,9021,9653,9654,8173,8186,9655,9656,7556,7558,9657,7563,9658,9659,8726,7571,9660,9661,9662,8739,19961,8978,9663,9664,9665,8741,9666,8979,9667,7578,9668,9669,9670,9671,9672,20667],"class_list":["post-216850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-latam-news-en","tag-latin-america-en","tag-atp-2","tag-central-america","tag-centralamerica","tag-centralamericatravel","tag-deniseguillenzuniga-2","tag-experience","tag-experience-2","tag-government","tag-ivaneskildsen-2","tag-latam-2","tag-latin-america","tag-newappointment","tag-panama-2","tag-panamatourism","tag-panamatravel","tag-sustainabletourism","tag-tourism","tag-tourismauthority","tag-tourismauthoritypanama","tag-tourismchanges","tag-tourismdevelopment","tag-tourism-en","tag-tourismindustry","tag-tourismleaders","tag-tourismmanagement","tag-tourismnews","tag-tourismpolicy","tag-tourismstrategy","tag-tourismtrends","tag-tourismupdates","tag-travel","tag-travelindustry","tag-travelnews","tag-travelpanama","tag-travelupdates","tag-visitpanama","tag-travel-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231883,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216850\/revisions\/231883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}