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More than 200 companies from 22 countries will converge in Costa Rica June 3-4 to arrange business meetings as part of the 2009 Costa Rica Services Summit (CRSS). The event aims to promote commercialization bonds within the services sectors and subsectors, particularly those related with medical and wellbeing tourism, engineering and architecture, audiovisuals and information and communication technology.
CRSS is organized by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Corporation (PROCOMER) in collaboration with the Costa Rican Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (CAMTIC), PROMED, the Chamber of Construction, and the Center for Cinema. During the Costa Rica Services Summit, the technology sector will also hold the sixth edition of the Costa Rica Technology Insight, an international event that during five years has helped position Costa Rica as one of the most competitive destinations in Latin America for services companies. To support these events, CAMTIC has developed a technological platform through which participants can have total control of their business agendas directly, knowing every detail about registered attendees and set up their business meetings with complete flexibility and convenience.
CRSS seeks to promote the exchange of trade opportunities and the development of novel strategic alliances between businesses, also providing business men and women the opportunity to know more about trends in the market and new practices and models in the worldwide services industry. “For us, this event is a space that foments strategic alliances, especially with those participants that were identified by PROCOMER’s 15 trade promotion offices abroad, as this will allow for linkages between the local supply and the global demand in the services sector — which is one of the most dynamic, innovative and high value-added generators in the current economy,” said Emmanuel Hess, PROCOMER general manager. “The services sector is becoming a bigger and bigger protagonist each day in our economy and, according to estimated by the Central Bank, it currently represents two third of our Gross Domestic Product,” added Foreign Trade Minister Marco Vinicio Ruiz. “Without a doubt, the Costa Rica Services Summit will be a very important space for generating business and attracting foreign investment to our services sectors in the medical, architecture, audiovisual information technology fields.”
Specific areas encompassed by the event will health and wellbeing tourism; the promotion of design and consultancies for engineering and architecture; natural locations, editing, logistics and postproduction in the audiovisual industry; competitiveness related to the business of outsourcing; and quality assurance for software and information and communication technologies. There will also be business meeting geared specifically toward manager, directors, presidents and important decision makers, as well as specialized talks and conferences. Costa Rica hosts service providers summit Technology services have positioned Costa Rica as an attractive destination for investors.