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The number of people traveling to Costa Rica from abroad in 2012 totaled 2,343,213, according to data released Monday by the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) and the Immigration Administration.
That number is 7 percent higher than that registered the previous year. For the third consecutive year Costa Rica has received more visitors than the previous year.
Most visitors – 66 percent – entered the country by air, mainly through Juan Santamaría International Airport, north of San José, which admitted 1,217,569 travelers. Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, saw 331,116 arrivals.
The second most important route of entry is by land, which represented 33 percent of international arrivals.
North Americans registered the largest number of arrivals with 1,062,522, representing an increase of 8.9 percent compared to 2011. There were 864,340 visitors from the United States last year, 136,261 from Canada and 61,921 from Mexico.
According to Tourism Minister Allan Flores, the increase in arrival of Mexican travelers this year (27 percent) was due to the announcements of new flights by airlines from that country.
INFORMATION comes from La Nacion and Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) and the Immigration Administration.
[quote=”aguirrewar”]The number of people traveling to Costa
So that means that the gov’t brought in approximately $40,000,000 in departure taxes last year. Where is all this money going?And where are these folks staying and what are they doing? I read all the time that hotel occupancy is down in all regions.
Not on the beaches of Guanacaste, they have been all full and still are, and we just left this week.
this information as in most data that comes from goverment sources shiuld be taken with a grain fo salt.
ICT always needs to look like they actually do something productive with thier spend budget$$$$
[quote=”aguirrewar”]The number of people traveling to Costa Rica from abroad in 2012 totaled 2,343,213, according to data released Monday by the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) and the Immigration Administration.
That number is 7 percent higher than that registered the previous year. For the third consecutive year Costa Rica has received more visitors than the previous year.
Most visitors – 66 percent – entered the country by air, mainly through Juan Santamaría International Airport, north of San José, which admitted 1,217,569 travelers. Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, saw 331,116 arrivals.
The second most important route of entry is by land, which represented 33 percent of international arrivals.
North Americans registered the largest number of arrivals with 1,062,522, representing an increase of 8.9 percent compared to 2011. There were 864,340 visitors from the United States last year, 136,261 from Canada and 61,921 from Mexico.
According to Tourism Minister Allan Flores, the increase in arrival of Mexican travelers this year (27 percent) was due to the announcements of new flights by airlines from that country.
INFORMATION comes from La Nacion and Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) and the Immigration Administration.[/quote]
clayton, [b]not all hotels[/b] are full in Guanacaste! There are [i]hundreds[/i] of resorts and hotels all along the coast and some may indeed be full, but there is many you can walk into without a reservation, and have a choice of rooms.
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