Published on : Monday, March 2, 2020
This 4.1% rise surpasses global tourism growth (4%) and doubles the average for America (2%), as per the figures laid down by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) barometer in the 2019 period.
The information was made public in an activity that occurred in the Presidential House. During this time, the decree to set up of the National Tourism Competitiveness Council (CONACOT) was signed. This effort is keen on furthering the support of tourism sector, which is country’s one of the most challenging industries, strengthening inter-institutional agreement with the private and public, national and international sectors.
The President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado , said that the rise in overseas tourist visitation last year showed that Costa Rica is a world leader in terms of tourism, which is one of the primary pillars for equitable development, economic activation and generation of jobs in different territories’.
President Carlos Alvarado will be visiting the Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport.
The growth and development experienced is huge on the basis of consistency of the Costa Rican tourism model, which during the last 3 decades was merged based on a shared vision of the public sector and the private sector.
To this fact is added that Costa Rica saw enhancement in the insight of the quality of the destination as per information from the Big Data platform, MABRIAN, reaching 80.7 points on a scale of 0 to 100, with an increase of 2, 9% compared to 2018.
For her part, the Minister of Tourism, María Amalia Revelo, said that ‘these figures show the strengthening of Costa Rica as a tourist destination and are especially important if the international context is taken into account’.
He said that ‘2019 was a complex year with variables for world tourism due to factors such as Brexit and the bankruptcy of Thomas Cook in the United Kingdom, as well as geopolitical tensions and the slowdown of the global economy’.
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