European tourists prefer to Costa Rica for tourism in the region

European tourists

Costa Rica receives more than 2 million tourists a year from all over the world.

According to data from the Central American promotion of Tourism Agency during the 2012 an approximately 248, 996 European tourists visited the country, which won first place in the region, followed by Guatemala with a number of little more than 172 000 visitors.

According to the institution, tourist arrivals grew by 16% in this region. According to the report, 717 833 European tourists traveled to the region in 2011, compared with the number that arrived in 2012 that was 832 576

Germany and the United Kingdom are the places where the tourists most often come from. People in Spain have the third place of the Europeans who visit Central America.

Spanish tourists are very important for Costa Rica. The Spanish airline Iberia recently increased flights between Madrid and San Jose a 6% to reach the 250 000 places, with daily flights between the two countries.

The European country also developed the platforms of the Madrid metro in showcases that promote tourism in Costa Rica and will remain there until the month of June.

In other neighboring countries e.g. in Nicaragua was recorded a growth of 6.6% of Spanish tourists and in Honduras, 4%.

In the Caribbean, Belize for example received in 2012 to a total of 1.02 million passengers, of which 29.362 were Europeans, especially Germans and French, whose markets recorded a growth of 8.1% and 5.7%, respectively.

The number of international arrivals to Nicaragua over 1.2 million, number representing an increase of 9.7%, and the European market registered 4.1% more tourists, mainly from Germany (9.3%) and France (7.2%).

In Panama, the number total visitors increased 4.1% in 2012 and that of Europeans was also higher, by registering 9.7% more tourists coming from the old continent El Salvador, according to data provided by the Ministry of tourism, it received more than 1.7 million tourists, 6.3% more than during 2011.

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Airline IBERIA baptizes plane with the name of "Costa Rica"

Iberia has had great participation in Costa Rica last year market

The air company Iberia will give the name "Costa Rica" to one of its eight aircraft, the second Airbus A330-300, its fleet that is expected to receive over the 2013 and 2014.

This aircraft will bear the name of Costa Rica as a tribute of the company to one of the most beautiful countries of Latin America, the Spanish airline said in a statement. "Costa Rica" is a twin-engined transatlantic voyage that take place and that will be allocated to routes that pass through the United States.

"The main advantage of this model of operation with aircrafts is efficiency, since they consume around 15% less fuel than other aircraft of similar capacity four models, which translates into considerable cost savings", adds the company in its press release.

The integration of the "Costa Rica" aircraft is the second aircraft of the fleet which receives the company, the first of which received the name of Tikal, in tribute to the Maya archaeological sites of Guatemala, and joined the fleet on 15 February.

Aircraft "Costa Rica" registration EC-LUK will join the fleet of Iberia as part of a renewal in the company and aims at the provision of modern, more efficient aircraft and with better services. It will be equipped with new interiors for Business and tourist class.

New modern designs have interiors refurbished in tourist and Executive classes, the Executive seats will rest into beds and economy class will have direct access to the Hall.

In the last month the Spanish airline made the announcement of increasing its supply of seats for flights from the Costa Rican capital to Madrid by 6% during the year 2013.

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Iberia airline will increase by 6% their seats on flights to Costa Rica

The European airline Iberia will have new cabins in economic and executive class in addition to 250,000 seats between San Jose and Madrid.

Tourists wishing to travel from Europe to Costa Rica and vice versa will now have a much broader offer ranging from best aircraft to the implementation of new services available during their flights.

Iberia will have new aircraft type Airbus A330, which will join the fleet of the company from February. Aircraft equipment will have new classes and best services in business class, for example, bed-seats which rest completely flat, in economy class there will be individual entertainment and "à la carte" service in power technology.

For those travelling on holiday between Europe and Costa Rica can also enjoy luxurious amenities such as use of the internet wi-fi and SMS messages.

In term of number of seats for flights between San Jose and Madrid will increase by 6% capacity during 2013, reaching a capacity of 250 000 seats.

Costa Rica has become a very important destination for the airline Iberia, and for this reason San Jose offers a daily flight from the capital to Madrid.

"The significant growth of Iberia in Costa Rica at a time of difficulties as the current shows the importance of the country within our strategy. We hope that the new products that we are making available to our customers allow us to consolidate our leadership position and our role as a favorite airline passengers flying between Costa Rica and Europe," said the Director of international sales of Iberia, Angel Valdemoros.

On the other hand, this also demonstrates the great interest people around the world who have visited Costa Rica, either for vacation or to live in the long term. Allan Flores, Tourism Minister has also expressed the positive aspects of these new alliances.

"Our country continues firm in attracting Airlines steps. The increase in operations of the airline Iberia, allows us to link to us with our major source markets of tourists and largest generators of foreign exchange by concept of tourism from Europe such as Spain, France and Germany, which in addition to this important news have developed a cooperative campaign with the airline, to promote the destination through joint advertising to engage more effectively to potential customers", flowers said.

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