Honduras Unveils The Coffee Route

You can take your lazy beach breaks, your extended trips to theme parks and your cultured weekends traipsing around cities because this is the holiday of all holiday.

Honduras, one of the world’s biggest coffee producers and the largest exporters in Central America, has announced the unveiling of a brand new tourist attraction, the Coffee Route.

The result of a joint project between the Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE) and the Honduran Institute of Tourism (IHT), it is hoped that the creation of this countrywide trail will bring investment and people to some places that are off the beaten track.

Encompassing the main six coffee growing regions of Honduras – those being Agalta, Comayagua, Copan, El Paraiso, Montecillos and Opalaca – both IHCAFE and IHT have provided investment to the plantations located on the path’s route, helping them establish the necessary infrastructure required to accommodate a (relative) influx of tourists.

On the trip, tourists will be able to observe how coffee is grown, farmed and processed as they voyage on a true ‘seed to cup’ journey. Visitors will be allowed access to a number of plantations, farms, research centres and educational facilities and participate in coffee tasting events and certain “ecotouristic activities”.

And yes, there’ll be the opportunity to visit a coffee shop or two.

“The combination of tourism and coffee with the launch of the Coffee Route allows us to offer the best of Honduras to both domestic and international tourists,” said Rene Leon Gomez, IHCAFE’s general manager.

“It also serves to diversify income sources and create new opportunities for our coffee farmers,” he added.