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“Tourism generates more hard currency than coal”

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 Category: Regulations & Policy
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“Tourism generates more hard currency than coal”

President Gustavo Petro recently spoke to the Colombian tourism association, ANATO, and he told them that tourism now brought more dollars to the country than coal exports.  Given the president’s predilection for exaggeration, we thought we should check his figures. He is probably right about the numbers but his explanation is off (we think).

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