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Arrival of tourists to Costa Rica increased in the first trimester of 2008 |
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The influx of tourists does not stop; during the first trimester of 2008, 14% more tourists arrived than in the same period of last year. A total of 65,000 more visits was reported for the term of January to March which reached 532 thousand people.
Of those that entered this year, 82% came by plane, or 436,719. The rest of the visitors, 96 thousand in total, arrived by land. The majority were Central Americans.
The Juan Santamarķa airport, in the Alajuela province, is the most important aerial terminal, with traffic that totaled 358,705 passengers. As for the Daniel Oduber airport, located in the city of Liberia in the Guanacaste province, an arrival of 78,014 people was reported between January and March.
The tourist arrival details were issued by the National Tourism Chamber (Canatur), according to data submitted by the Immigration Administration.
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