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Costa Rica Matures From Ecotourism Pioneer to Industry Leader

Raini Hamdi

Photo Credit: María Amalia Revelo, the minister of tourism for Costa Rica, speaking at Skift Global Forum on September 18, 2019, in New York City.  Skift / Matt Mateiescu

Skift Take

Costa Rica was calling things green and eco way before it was cool. Now it's going beyond ecotourism to embrace holistic sustainable tourism. Smart move, especially when arrivals keep growing.

Costa Rica’s Minister of Tourism María Amalia Revelo maintains the country is able to sustain its reputation as an ecotourism pioneer despite visitations rising year on year since 2010. The destination welcomed more than three million visitors last year and, in the first six months of this year, already chalked up a 4 percent increase in arrivals to 1.4 million compared to the first half of 2018. Eco-lodges and backpacker hostels in nature reserves, which formed much of its appeal in the early days, now jostle with cruise ships and a

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