The Republic of Panama has an infinite number of opportunities for the investor, either the foreigner as the national. When visiting the cosmopolite metropolis of Panama City, you could visualize the scope of this country's financial activity.

Because the investment topic is wide, we will detail the most important sectors, like the Tourist Investment that have had constituted, during the last five years, on one of the country's most developed activities.

This fact happens because the Panama City is a sole destination that, besides being a cosmopolite and modern metropolis, it offers a combination of history, culture, commerce, entertainment and natural beauty optimal for the investment. Such effect is seen on the Province of Bocas del Toro and Chiriqui where the foreign investment is at full capacity.

This growth is produced mainly to the incentives that exists on this matter because the Republic of Panama has the most modern Law of tourism incentives in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Law that regulates this activity is the Law #8 from 1994 and the Decree #73 from 1995.

Another area of investment is Real State where, actually, many investors have discovered this opportunity and have invested in properties located on Panama City, in front of the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific Ocean, which increases their value.

This growth has been noteworthy mainly on the construction on non developed areas like the sector of Costa del Este where it has been built high value residential projects, besides of locating there great firms.

Another areas are Amador, which was part of the former Canal Zone and on their properties are developing tourist, industrial and residential projects; and Punta Pacifica where it is locates one of the country's biggest Malls.

Another important investments take place on the maritime services' area like the shipyards, maintenance installations, containers' ports and cruises' terminals which activity has produced millionaire dividends for the country.

A very key aspect for investors is the existence in Panama of the second world's Free Zone and the first on the Western Hemisphere, which is the Colon´s Free Zone.

The Colon's Free Zone is a Global Logistic Center for the world with more than 2,000 established firms, 250,000 annual visitors and commercial transactions that generate 11,000 millions dollars on imports, exports and re-exports.

This commercial zone is located on the entrance of the Panama Canal, at the Caribbean side in the Province of Colon and consists on an international dock center with an unequal geographic position and access to the most important ports either in the Caribbean as the Pacific side of the Isthmus (Manzanillo International Terminal, Colon Ports Terminal, Colon Container Terminal and Panama Ports Company).

For this reasons and many more, the Republic of Panama “Bridge of the World” is open to the entire world for offering the best on all areas. Come to invest in Panama.