The new Marina Pez Vela in Quepos is built-central Pacific could employ over 300 people over the next three years, said its chairman, Harold Lovelady. The first phase project will start operating in April, with a payroll of 22 people, mostly from Quepos, Aguirre. The initial investment is $ 40 million. The entrepreneur said that in three years when the project is finished,...

U.S. survey among ecotourists puts us first in the world. Negative points are waste management, sewage, mega-hotels, and large monocultures. In the minds of American eco-tourists, Costa Rica is the only brand positioned as green, thanks to its national parks and the carbon offset program in air travel (voluntary payment of fees for pollution). This emerges from the first...

A study by National Geographic said the Cocos Island is a “jewel” from a conservation standpoint. He added that protection of this National Park has not only allowed keeping the marine fauna of the island, but also improving it. Scientists and experts from National Geographic Costa Rica began in September 2009 an expedition to Cocos Island National Park and...

Tourists from around the world come to Guanacaste to live the tournament Presidential Challenge to be held next 5, 6 and 7 March in Samara Beach. According to statistics from the Federación Costarricense de Pesca Tourism (Fecopt) last year fishing attracted 85,636 tourists the country. These figures show a recovery of 12% compared to 2008. Mario Gutierrez, Bacardi brand...

In a survey by the company Green CMI, Respondents stated that Costa Rica is the destination that has done better work environment. The respondents, mostly U.S. based their responses on the experience “green” that lived to visit the country and to check on their own environmental practices as described in the publicity that goes around the entire globe. The...

Ensuring the buyer of a house or land to build, immovable property that was built under quality standards , Is seeking voluntary certification of housing projects today released March 2 by the Costa Rican Chamber of Construction (CCC). The creation of these first certification scheme construction processes of housing projects ran the Standards Institute of Costa Rica (Inteco),...

Measurement driven Minaet and Housing in the Greater Metropolitan Area. Environmentalists and Prugam reported threat to the aquifers. An executive order signed by President Óscar Arias and Environment Ministers of Housing and building permits in areas of environmental protection within the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) of Costa Rica. This mandate, published last week...

The construction of the International Corporate Center Tower C, projected to be in 20 months. This is a 16-story building, 13 of them on the sidewalk level and three underground, located in San Jose on the corner of 8th Avenue and 28th Street in Barrio Don Bosco. The infrastructure, which will be sold or rented offices, aims to meet the needs that today a center of this...

Small Distinctive Hotels covers eight high-level hotels and respectful of the environment. Clientele is mostly foreign, high-spending. The “annus horribilis” of world tourism also had made itself felt in Costa Rica, down about 8% compared to 2008, the year that marked the record for foreign visitors to the country. But just as not all people are equal, neither...

Goal is that 10,000 renters with high purchasing power live here. Plan aims to stop foreign retirees by $ 340 million annually. Costa Rica claims that in the years to 10,000 foreign retirees make the country their new home and generate income by $ 340 million annually. This amount would be received by the country house payments, food, medicine and recreation, but also...