Costa Rica Tourism News

According to a press release yesterday from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Costa Rica does not comply with the safety standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). As a result of this recent assessment, Costa Rica has been downgraded to a category 2.

It's true that most tourists probably don't come to Costa Rica with the urban experiences of San José at front of mind, but we were pleased to read Lilit Marcus's recent article extolling precisely that, in a CNN Travel article explaining why tourists shouldn't ignore Costa Rica's capital. 

There are worrying signs about where worldwide demand is headed, and evidence suggests that the U.S. is poised for a slowdown across every travel category. As U.S. travellers continue to be the most frequent visitors to Costa Rica, we could be negatively affected by their situation.

Who Bought Sansa Airlines? It seems the mystery is now over.

The Costa Rican Institute of Tourism (ICT) has released the monthly report of international arrivals covering March, 2019. Among other stats, it shows Costa...

KLM to launch regular flights to Guanacaste: Beginning October 29, 2019, passengers will be able to fly from Amsterdam to Liberia on one of four weekly flights.

The 35th Expotur Tourism Market will be held from May 9 to 10, 2019 at the National Convention Center in San José. This year’s event is predicted to have the highest attendance figures in recent years.

Costa Rica was an exhibitor at this month's Latin America World Travel Market (WTM) fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

If you think that you don’t need to pay to promote your business, think again. You are actually already doing it by way of commissions to third party agencies. And when you run the numbers (commissions paid), that’s really expensive especially considering they were already your customer.

Costa Rica wants to attract about four million tourists in 2021, one million more than last year.