Costa Rica On The Hunt
For More European Tourists
Every day more and more Europeans make Costa
Rican their vacation destination. According
to the Cámara Nacional de Turismo (Canatur)
more people from the "Viejo Continente" (Old
Continent, as Europe is referred to in Costa
Rica) are curious to discover the country
they hear so much about.
Canatur says that in 2009, Costa Rica
received 187.486 European tourists, the
majority from Spain.
And for that Costa Rican tourism officials
are attending the Feria Internacional de
Turismo (Fitur) that is ongoing in Madrid,
Spain, this week.
The objective for 2010 is increase on the
2009 numbers and at least 32 Costa Rican
tourism operators are attending the Fitur.
For Costa Rica, Europe is an emergenging
market for tourists and an increase in
European tourism will decrease Costa Rica's
dependence on American tourists that now
make up the bulk of the almost 2 million
annual visitors to Costa Rica.
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