Bogota will construct a medical tourism center at a cost of $19 million, report economic paper Portfolio.

U.S.-Colombian actor John Leguizamo inaugurates Cartagena's Hay Festival, one of the city's most important cultural events of the year.

Some 1,200 recreational cyclists take to the streets of Medellin in an unprecedented show of force against the city's motorized vehicles.

Colombia's capital Bogota aims to become Latin America's fourth most popular corporate tourism destination by 2016, the director of the Bogota Convention Bureau says.

Producers of U.S. television network Golf Channel are in Colombia to shoot a a special on the country's golf courses, tourism and export promotion agency Proexport announces.

The price of airline tickets between Colombia and Ecuador are to drop by 20% from April 1.

The airport in Florencia, the capital of the department of Caqueta in the Colombian Amazon region, receives $6.1 million in investment.

Tourism in Colombia during the 2011-2012 holiday season was up on last year, figures released by Colombia's hotel association showed.

Cartagena's mayoral office announces a $1 million restoration of the town's iconic bull ring.

Gastronomes have the opportunity to sample Iberian flavors at the fifth annual Spanish Food Festival in Bogota.

An eclectic mix of writers, musicians, philosophers and political leaders will come together to think and talk at this month's Hay Festival Cartagena.

Medellin's annual bullfighting festival opens this weekend in La Macarena, the city's 14,000 capacity ring.

Colombian soccer star Radamel Falcao is unveiled as the country's new global ambassador for tourism, reports daily El Colombiano.

Killer plants go on display in a new exhibition at a Colombian nature reserve.

Bogota's Festival Centro takes over the capital's historic center January 18 to 22 with a tantalizing musical offering of international and Colombian acts.

Police in Medellin's international airport catch a family stealing tourist luggage.

The Andean Development Corporation approves a $50 million loan for the modernization of Bogota's El Dorado airport.

The Andean Development Corporation approves a $50 million loan for the modernization of Bogota's El Dorado airport.

Music lovers can soak up sounds in a Caribbean setting this week as Cartagena hosts the sixth International Festival of Music.

Up to 700 passengers are expected to be affected as flights between Bogota and Madrid are cancelled as part of Iberia's pilot strike.