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Arrival Of
More Charter Flights To Liberia Announced
(InfoWebPress) – The Costa Rican Tourism
Institute (ICT) has announced the arrival of
more charter flights to Liberia’s Daniel
Oduber International Airport starting next
November.
Even though ICT didn’t say which specific
airlines will be offering these services, it
did indicate they are from North America and
Europe — Canada and Germany, respectively.
Tourism Minister Carlos Ricardo Benavides
added that negotiations are underway with
other companies that organize this kind of
flights originating in England and Spain, in
efforts to add three new direct routes to
Costa Rica.
Tourism officials also said they are in
conversations to add a South American
airline to the Liberia flight schedule in
the next few months.
The announcement was made only one month
after U.S. carrier Continental said it would
increase its flights to San Jose’s Juan
Santamaria International Airport and to
Daniel Oduber, beginning in March.
The expansion plan includes a new flight on
Saturdays from New York to San Jose, thus
reaching three weekly flights from this U.S.
city.
The flight to San Jose will leave the Newark
airport at 11:55 a.m., arriving at 3.15 p.m.
The return flight will leave San Jose at
4:05 p.m. and arrive at Newark at 11:15 p.m.
There will be another flight on Saturdays,
but between Houston and Liberia. This flight
will leave Texas at 11:29 a.m. and touch
down in Liberia at 1:50 p.m. It will then
leave Liberia at 2:40 p.m. and arrive in
Houston at 7:13 p.m.
The expansion in flight frequency to and
from Costa Rica obeyed to “the strong
promotion Costa Rica is doing in
international markets, which has resulted in
the need to increase our offerings,” said
Carlos Granados, sales manager for
Continental in Costa Rica.
The goal of attracting new flights to
Liberia has to do with efforts to face the
visitation reduction experienced in the past
few months due to the international economic
recession.
In the first two months of this year
(compared to January and February of 2008),
the number of foreign tourists in the
Guanacaste region (arriving via the Liberia
airport) has decreased by 16.6 percent.
This translates into 13,700 less visitors to
Guanacaste.
And even though occupancy numbers during the
Easter vacation time (which is considered
part of the high tourism season) were lower
than on other occasions, some polls taken
among tourism industry companies indicated
these are not expecting a rebound during the
upcoming low season, which begins in May as
the rainy season settles in. |
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