A private guided visit to the Colón Free Zone, one of the largest free-trade zones in the world.
Explore the Colón Free Trade Zone with a local shopping specialist, a real wholesale and retail hub serving business travelers and bargain shoppers alike.
The Colón Free Zone is the largest free-trade zone in the Americas and the second-largest in the world, a real destination for wholesale buyers, business travelers, and shoppers. This private tour includes a local guide familiar with the zone's stores and practicalities, tailored for individuals or small groups.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Panama City included.
Visit the real, working free-trade zone, a major hub for wholesale and duty-free retail in Central America.
Your guide helps navigate the zone's stores and real practical logistics (documentation, purchase limits).
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Explore the Colón Free Trade Zone with a local shopping specialist, a real wholesale and retail hub serving business travelers and bargain shoppers alike. The Colón Free Zone is the largest free-trade zone in the Americas and the second-largest in the world, a real destination for wholesale buyers, business travelers, and shoppers. This private tour includes a local guide familiar with the zone's stores and practicalities, tailored for individuals or small groups.
The Colón Free Zone has operated since 1948 on the Caribbean side of the isthmus, right where the Panama Canal meets the Atlantic. It's the largest free port in the Americas and, by most trade rankings, the second-largest free-trade zone in the world after Hong Kong — a real, working commercial district, not a tourist bazaar built to look like one.
The zone covers roughly 2.4 square kilometers (about 600 acres) of warehouses, showrooms, and wholesale storefronts, built around re-exporting goods — electronics, clothing, perfume, liquor, and more — across Latin America and the Caribbean. That wholesale DNA is still obvious on the ground: many buildings are set up for bulk buyers and container-sized orders as much as for individual shoppers browsing for duty-free deals.
That's exactly why a private guide is genuinely useful here rather than just a nice extra. The zone is large, the layout isn't designed with casual tourists in mind, and knowing which buildings and stores actually sell retail-sized quantities (versus pallets) saves real time. This tour pairs you with a local shopping specialist for a full day, with hotel pickup in Panama City included, so you can focus on finding what you're after instead of navigating a maze of warehouse aisles alone.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.