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...

The number of square meters for construction processed before the Federated Association of Engineers and Architects show a rise for third straight month. For the authorities of the entity, the above shows a sector rebound after experiencing recession since late 2008. During January this year, plans for new construction totaled 631,000 meters square, which means a rise...

The future arrived in Costa Rica of telecommunications utilities or telecoms; he would open an important source of employment for the thousands of professionals in different areas, mainly in technology and computing. This explosion in demand for professionals is inferred from the numbers that these companies operate in neighboring countries like El Salvador that had a...

Even when the economic crisis threatened to whip hard areas such as tourism, predictions of decline were above the actual losses. The first estimates of the National Chamber of Tourism (ICT) were a decrease of between 10% and 12%, but in late January was estimated to decrease by 9%. Tuesday officially announced today that the House 2009 closed with 7.9% less growth than...