Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras

At 2:00 a.m. this morning, over three thousand natives, armed with sticks and stones arrived at the archaeological park of Copan Ruins to take over it and stop the entrance of national and foreign tourist as a pressure measurement for the government to fulfill a series of necessities they have been facing for several years now.
The government has to resolve in a short term the purchase of over 4,000 acres of land for 103 million lempiras as well as other demands from the Mayan Chorti indigenous population.

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An American tourism council, an Australian NGO, a spa company and a community conservation project in Honduras were this week announced as the winners of this year’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.

Blackstone River Valley in Rhode Island, a place once known for its polluted rivers, high unemployment and disenfranchised local communities, but now rehabilitated thanks to the work of its tourism council, won the Destination Award.

Ecotourism Australia, which has built a broad-based conservation programme across the continent over two decades, won the Conservation Award.

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Roatan, emerging as the Caribbean’s newest vacation hotspot, is now home to its largest and most bio-sensitive and upscale resort.

Infinity Bay Spa and Beach Resort opens this week with 55 of its planned 145 luxury villas now complete.

Located in the heart of West Bay Beach, Infinity Bay, the island’s greenest resort, has been designed to protect the coral reef system that curls around Roatan’s shores.

The barrier reef, second in size only to Australia’s, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Delta Air Lines sent an extra, unscheduled flight Tuesday to Honduras to help customers escape Hurricane Felix, which struck the Central American country as a fearsome Category 5 storm.

The Atlanta-based airline, the nation’s third-largest, said it has more than 100 customers in Honduras who had been scheduled to remain there until Saturday, said spokesman Andy McDill. Felix was projected to rake central Honduras, slam into Guatemala and then cut across southern Mexico, well south of Texas.

McDill said the evacuated passengers were expected to return Tuesday afternoon to Atlanta.

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