Costa Rica Awarded for Tourism
Friday, March 7th, 2008Costa Rica has quickly becoming one of the hot destinations to go to for a fantastic holiday and is continually being internationally recognized for its high levels of tourism. No more so than that of the World Economic Forum.
The world economics forum ranks Costa Rica as the most impressive nation out of all the Latin American nations in terms of tourism. This has been the second successive year that Costa Rica has come out on top out of all their neighbouring nations.
The Travel & Tourism Index ranked Costa Rica 44th out of the 130 nations that were analysed with neighbouring nations Nicaragua and Panama being ranked 99th and 50th respectively. The United Kingdom were ranked 6th with Untied States just behind in 7th whilst central European nations Switzerland, Austria and Germany held the top 3 spots in that order (Switzerland top).
The forum’s recent report, Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008, reviewed the 130 countries world wide and analysed them based on this years report theme – Balancing Economy Development and Environmental Sustainability. The report includes the analysis of the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index.
