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Cave tour in Costa Rica: Freedom vs. Preservation	Costa Rica	1/21/2010 8:41 AM
Tourist caves in the United States lean toward the disappointing—paved trails, teenage guides spouting corny dialogue, stalactites bathed in the purple stench of theater stage lights. That’s why I was excited to find out about Venado Caverns, a cave in north central Costa Rica. My guidebook advised me to think long and hard about any [...]
Costa Rica’s ultimate eco paradise	Costa Rica	1/18/2010 8:03 AM
THE “Green Season” sounded like one of those marketing ploys to convince me to visit a place when I’d really rather not. That’s what the tourism sites called this time of year in Costa Rica and, in my mind, it screamed ‘‘pouring rain’’. So days later, while standing on a stunning white-sand beach, neck high in the [...]
Costa Rica prepares for Blues Festival	Costa Rica	1/15/2010 7:18 AM
With Texas Johnny Brown, as principal star, Costa Rica is ready for its Third Blues Festival. Among a list of ten groups that will be performing on February 27th at the Cubano Club in Escazú, Brown, who is considered an American blues legend, highlights the lineup. “Mostly (the visit of Texas Johnny Brown) is a great joy [...]
New airport terminal to be finished before June 2010	Costa Rica	1/7/2010 8:23 AM
Construction work at Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría international airport is expected to be completed before the June 2010 deadline stipulated by the concession contract. The expansion will increase the number of check-in counters from 58 to 78, allowing more airlines to operate. The number of immigration stands will also increase. Other works include rebuilding the airport’s immigration [...]
Costa Rica Tourism Report Q1 2010 – New Report Published	Uncategorized	1/6/2010 1:19 PM
After increasing from 2.06mn in 2006 to 2.29mn in 2007, the report expects arrivals to have increased to 2.51mn in 2008 before dipping down to 2.29mn in 2009. Arrival numbers are forecast to tick up again in 2010, and to grow to 3.5mn in 2014, at the end of our forecast period. The majority of [...]

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Costa Rica Ranks 3rd In 2010 2010 Environmental Performance Index

Costa Rica has ranked third with a score of 86.4 in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), behind Switzerland in second place and first place Iceland with a score of 93.5....

4 Feb 2010, 8:57 AM by Nick Halverson to Costa Rica Real Estate News & Information.

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iTrip Vacation Rental Management System Opens New Costa Rica Market

iTrip has added vacation rental properties to their list of countries offering beautiful vacation rental propertys....

4 Feb 2010, 8:55 AM by Nick Halverson to Costa Rica Real Estate News & Information.

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New US Ambassador to Costa Rica

The new U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica says her interest in Central America stems from an aid mission she embarked on with relatives while a teenager living in Evansville, Indiana. Anne Slaughter Andrew says the six-week trip at age 16 to Honduras and...

4 Feb 2010, 8:51 AM by Nick Halverson to Costa Rica Real Estate News & Information.

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November 2009: Update on Costanera Highway (Jaco)

In total, it only takes about 2 hours (123 minutes) to go 139 km, including the road between Dominical and Quepos. For those of you who remember how the road was even two years ago, it is amazing to realize the completion of the Costanera Highway is almost...

3 Jan 2010, 10:13 PM by Nick Halverson to Costa Rica Real Estate News & Information.

Filed under: Costa Rica tourism, Costa Rica Real Estate, tourism