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May 3, 2011 (La Ceiba, Honduras) Prohotel International today announced that the company will operate and manage The Lodge at Pico Bonito, a 22-room luxury lodge in La Ceiba, Honduras. Prohotel, who previously did marketing for the hotel, signed a five-year management contract and plans to reposition The Lodge in the upscale market.
Beginning May 1st Prohotel will manage all day-to-day activities for the hotel from reservations to operations. The company has hired Marcela Ochoa as General Manager for the hotel. Ochoa brings over 20 years of experience in sales development, marketing and hotel management with a successful track record. She most recently worked in Regional Sales & Marketing (Canada) for Hacienda Tres Rios, a high-end all-inclusive luxury resort in the Riviera Maya. Prior to working for Hacienda Tres Rio, Ochoa was the General Manager of Casa Mexicana, a boutique hotel in downtown Cozumel.
"A white-walled estate built in the 1990s for an Italian duchess looks out over the Caribbean Sea. Indulge in a Caribeña cocktail, a blend of mezcal and pineapple juice, in the communal living room. Rosemary and juniper berries from the garden are used in spa treatments." 
"The Lodge at Pico Bonito is exquisite, from its gardens to its open-air lounge to its private luxury cabins and terrific food. And crested owls and keel-billed and tody motmots await in the cloud-shrouded hills above. Raptors, owls, woodpeckers, toucans, tanagers, crazy moths on UV-lit bedsheets, the strangest Heliconia flowers ever – they had to pry me out of Pico Bonito. Manager James Adams is an expert naturalist and hotelier, and it shows in every detail." 
Bordered by the dramatic Sierra Mountain range, cobalt blue seas and lush vegetation, Todos Santos, for example, is redefining itself with the inauguration of the Guaycura Boutique Hotel & Spa, a charming 14-room inn dating back to the 1880s. A traditional weekend haunt for people from neighboring La Paz and Los Cabos, Todos Santos now has a property that is attractive to visitors from across the border. 
"When I entered Esencia's Aroma Spa, tucked into a quiet corner of the estate, I passed through a cloud of copal incense wafting from a terra-cotta bowl. A tree resin much like frankincense and myrrh, copal nuggets look like amber. The Maya have used it for a variety of secular and religious purposes, and in my travels here, I've come to expect the crisp scent on a daily basis. 
