Tourism planning in uncertain times Tourism planning in uncertain times Planning is a basic management function involving formulation of one or more detailed plans to achieve optimum balance of needs or demands with the available resources, tourism planning is a very important element because it allows us to organize the different processes and changes in an anticipated way, the tourism sector has suffered major changes over time, but companies and individuals who engage in this activity have been stand due to good planning, seeing the future and thinking in a sustainable way. It’s Possible to anticipate the future? No one can know what the future will be, but with an analysis of the present you can know how the future might be, if a tourist company wants to have a good future, they have to change the present, in this way they will have better results, for example hotels in Panama that are not having a good time, so they in the present have to change something (such as prices, agreements with other hotels) so in the future will have better opportunities with good planning. Forward thinking It is the long term view to achieve different objectives, and know when to make changes in plans or projects, in order to achieve the objectives. If we want to promote a tourist site, we have to consider the community in this way companies and communities will receive benefits. This capability is vital to choose and make large projects for economic, educational, energy and environmental development, to carry out institutional changes and, in general, to draw the basic outlines of society (Medina, 2001). Tourism Tourism involves different sectors of society, and the most important Human Capital, Social Capital and Institutional Capital, which focuses on the ability of people to be entrepreneurial, social as the ability to help the different communities that are involved in the tourist movement, and functional capital are all those associations or companies that manage the tourist sector and how is their management climate and their mutual cooperation. Tourism has a big multiplier effect, which helps the economy of different countries and different sectors, creating jobs and new opportunities in a high escalation, but it just happen is the companies and communities that have a good sustainable planning thinking in the future, making different strategies to reach the objectives