Europeans are increasingly favoring Costa Rica as a tourist destination

Europeans are increasingly favoring Costa Rica as a tourist destination thanks in part to the country’s self-promotion in tourism fairs in different European countries.

On a more general level, 532,000 tourists chose Costa Rica as their destination in the first three months of 2008.

This figure reflects a 14% increase in comparison to the first trimester of the previous year, which corresponds to 65,000 more tourists; this data represents those tourists that entered the country by plane.

Tourism continues to be the main source of foreign currency in the country as it contributes almost a quarter to the national exports.