Archive for March, 2009

It is only normal for the hotel industry in Costa Rica to experience an atypical high season for 2009 due to the current economic situation in the United States, Costa Rica’s main source of tourism. However, the industry has not been discouraged and in turn is taking precautionary measures in order to guarantee the highest occupation possible during the crisis. Management of several Costa Rica hotels has agreed on offering its customers an added value that will hopefully entice them to stay longer.

Hotels and vacation rentals at Costa Rica are offering extra perks that include from free long distance calls to free meals or tours. So actually this is a pretty good time to take advantage of the low rates and extra bonuses offered by the hotel industry in Costa Rica.

Airlines such as American Airlines have been posting very cheap airfares to Costa Rica from South Florida. The plane trip is roughly over a couple of hours and once in San Jose, transportation and lodge is extremely easy to arrange.

Hotels in Costa Rica that have decided to offer an added value for the room rate are located in San Jose, Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Limon. Although not all hotel managers agree with offering bonuses to its customers as they believe it can backfire in the long run, it won’t hurt to ask if they offer something extra in case it is not posted on the website.

Full article at CostaRicanHotels

The Professionals in Tourism Association (ACROPOT) in Costa Rica has re-launched its online site in which Costa Rica hotels, tour operators, car rentals, restaurants, tourist centers as well as job hunters can upload their contact information for a possible job opportunity.

The website http://www.empleosenturismo.com allows tourism companies in Costa Rica to upload available positions within their operations for the public to see.  At the same time, the website allows for people to upload their curriculum as well as browse job openings within the Costa Rican tourism industry.

According to ACROPOT, although the world financial crisis has slightly affected tourism contraction in the country, several companies are still in need of certain positions to be filled.  The new website is also more dynamic as it now allows the users to upload, edit or delete their information thus keeping the data current.

The information that is uploaded to the website will remain available to the public for one month.  After that, the user will have the option to reactivate his or her information for another period of time.

Unlike other online job sites, the Empleos en Turismo website is free of charge for both the company and the person seeking work.

Article thx to Costa Rica Hotels Blog

Most grouping opt Costa Rica as a pass instruction for the hearty sunny defy and the foppish beaches. However, there are numerous another activities in Costa Rica that module wage you with the pass of a lifetime. This is a land rish in scenery, wildlife, biology and more.

1. Canopy Tour. Take a canopy journeying of the Monteverde rainforest.on Sky Trek. This is a canopy journeying with a disagreement because it is on a large bit than another tours of this nature in another countries. There are more fix lines, platforms and support bridges. You don&t requirement whatever limited active knowledge to verify this journeying as the guides module attain trusty you hit the equipment on right and intend you started from apiece platform. You crapper also pay more instance at apiece kibosh than the rest of the grouping attractive the tour, which allows you to make your state to your needs.
2. Coffee settlement Tour. Since drink is a bounteous playing in Costa Rica, you can’t yield without attractive a journeying of a employed plantation and relishing the enthusiastic coffee. You crapper easily hold a period journeying from San Jose to the drink ontogeny location of the Central Valley, but much tours are acquirable anywhere that drink is grown in the country. The journeying starts with a achievement around the plantation with a pass explaining the impact of production. You crapper discernment the drink at the plantation and acquire samples to verify backwards bag with you.
3. Culinary Tours. Get an brainwave into the culinary tastes of Costa Rica with digit of individual tours. At the Monteverde Cheese Factory you module wager most the story of the Quaker&s in the land and farm farming. See the mallow existence prefabricated and then discernment whatever of the delights. If you poverty to wager most the ontogeny of macadamia nuts, then you crapper verify a journeying of Finca La Anita in Miravalles, Guanacaste, where you module savor a meal and a canopy tour. Just right Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, you crapper verify a journeying of a drink plantation and wager how the beans are ease harvested in the tralatitious manner.
4. Surfing and Windsurfing. The breaks soured the beaches of Costa Rica are famous every over the concern and entertainer thousands of surfers. Even if you don’t surf, you module hit an pleasant instance watching those that do. In the midland region, Lake Arenal has stabilize humour and twine speeds of most 40 kph, which makes for delicate windsurfing conditions.
5. Volcano Watching. At Arenal Volcano National Park, you module hit the possibleness to check the most impressive cleft in the country. Night instance is the prizewinning instance for watch the flushed blistering tree and cinders that expel from the representative of the volcano. Eruptions are the important attraction, but it is doable that you won’t wager whatever if there is a aggregation of darken cover. There are construction identify lodges that substance improvement so that you crapper intend the prizewinning analyse and hit the prizewinning quantity of range the range of a period on your vacation.

Full article at AllMyCostaRica