In addition to the numerous decisions one must undertake when planning a vacation in today’s eco-diverse travel sector, is the selection between making a reservation with a mainstream Costa Rican resort that initially appears safer, less expensive, and a more secure option than that of a private villa – that for the money is a…
The volcanoes of Costa Rica are one of the many tourist attractions that draw thousands of visitors yearly in this tiny yet amazingly beautiful country. It’s also a mystery how a country this size can host three hundred volcanic centers which may be considered active, dormant and extinct. These selected volcanoes in Costa Rica shouldn’t…
In order to address the structural issues of competitiveness of the productive system in the Central Pacific region and promote economic recovery and create decent employment, Government institutions, municipalities, academia and business sector signed on Friday March 8 the Pact for Productive Development and Competitive of the Central Pacific.
While Costa Rica is well known as one of the progenitors of eco-tourism, it is gaining notoriety for another tourist attraction: legalized prostitution. Thousands of visitors, mainly from North America, come to Costa Rica for lawful sex, without regard for the consequences among its victims. Many of those victims are children as young as 12,…
The Costa Rican Institute of Ports of the Pacific issued on Monday, October 1, purchase order No. 29852 for ¢ 1,089,889,967,351 to award the project “Complementary Works of El Muellero Park”, also known as the Pergolas Project. The Executive President of the Costa Rican Institute of Ports of the Pacific, Juan Ramón Rivera, explained that…
The World Surf League is the entity that organizes annual tours of professional surfing competitions. The original body of professional surfing, the International Professional Surfers, was founded in 1976 and led by Hawaiian surfers Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick. The event will bring together some of the best professionals in the world of surfing, from…
In total, the sum of 1,600 million colones will be invested, resources that will be provided by the INCOP, ICT, Tourism Promotion Board, INCOPESCA, INA, IMAS and RECOPE. “The proposed strategy seeks to articulate a vision of tourism development to revitalize the local economy of Puntarenas in the short, medium and long term, articulating efforts…
In the Plaza del Pacífico, in the center of Puntarenas, Claudia Dobles First Lady of the Republic together with María Amalia Revelo who is the Minister of Tourism, announced on Wednesday the tourist campaign “Jale al Puerto”, which will start nationally in August . This is an ICT initiative in coordination with the Office of…