Services

The sector of services in Colombia possesses a potential of enormous growth, for it it has turned into one of the major commercial bets for the country. Nowadays initiatives are carried out to explore new opportunities and markets, improving the policies of the sector and this way to extend the offer.

Through the Program of Productive Transformation, initiative led by the national government, seeks to develop sectors of world class where it can be find subsectors of such services as Software and IT Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Electric Power, goods and Related Services.

In this sense, Colombia is a great opportunity for investors in the services sector, because it has great competitive advantages. Some of them are:

• The highest availability of human resources in Latin America (IMD, 2008).
• Financial analysts and systems engineers are economical in the region, up to 78% of average.
• 27,000 engineering graduates and 13,000 technicians.
• The most competitive free ports in Latin America: 15% income tax and the ability to sell to the local market.
• Strategic location only three hours from Miami.

In this section find specific information on the following sectors:

• Software and Services TI
• Outsourcing of Services BPO
• Private Equity Industry
• Hotel Infrastructure and Tourism
• Goods and oil services