1.32 million tourists visited Costa Rica in the first half of the 2013 │ Costa Developers

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The average number of tourists visiting the country reached about 2 million or more.

During the first half of 2013 was recorded income of 1.32 million visitors, this represents an increase in comparison with the previous year, according to information provided by the Costa Rican Institute of tourism (ICT).

The majority of these visitors, entered the country through the Juan Santamaria international airport, the main of the country, secondly the most important port of entry is the Daniel Oduber airport, which is located in Liberia, Guanacaste, the other remaining entered through the land borders, Peñas Blancas with Nicaragua and Paso Canoas (Panama).

Through the airport Juan Santa Maria between the months of January and June entered 678 491 tourists, this represents an increase of 3.5% compared to 2012, when they entered 655 530.

In accordance with the General Directorate of migration and aliens, the month with the lower income of tourists is may.

The Minister of tourism, Allan Flores, said that one of the most important aspects of this study is that markets including China, Mexico, Brazil and the United Kingdom emerged. The Costarican Institute of tourism

made efforts to attract tourists to the country, among them the airline alliances, for example those that were signed with Chinese airlines to offer better access to the country.

Tourists coming from Europe also have more convenient transportations through the opening of airlines such as Iberia, which offers direct flights to Madrid.

Notwithstanding that the number of tourists increased, not generated increased hotel occupancy, this is due to two factors, one of them is the competition that exists in the apartments or beach residences for rent, and one of them is the decline in the length of stay of tourists.

Flores hopes that growth for the second half of 2013 is similar to the numbers estimated by the World Tourism Organization, which would represent a 3% to 4%

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United increases flights to Costa Rica

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The US airline will operate more flights from the United States towards the country in Central America.

United Airlines announced last Saturday, that will increase weekly flights to Costa Rica, with the opening of two routes most flights out of Chicago and another from Washington.

Each of the flights has a capacity of 150 passengers, which means that to the offer of 12,000 seats already offered to the country now.

"A flight comes from Chicago and one from Washington, two cities that meet the profile of traveller we are looking for: earns more than $120,000 a year, from 45-55 years, travelling in family, with University schooling while on vacation in our destinations competition", said Allan Flores, Tourism Minister.

The opening of these routes Santa Juan was conducted at the international terminal Maria, where both planes landed with 150 passengers each.

Recently other airlines such as Delta Airlines have also increased their travel to and from Costa Rica, at both international airports, Daniel Oduber in Liberia, Guanacaste, and Juan Santa Maria International Airport in Alajuela.

"We are pleased to get these new operations that will add around 12,000 additional seats to the existing offer," said the Minister in a statement to radio.

To add these two flights, United Airlines became the airline that has more routes to travel to Costa Rica from the United States. It currently has flights that travel from Houston and the city of New York.

Connections of flight in Houston, New York, Chicago and Washington are essential for travelers coming from Europe and some cities in the Asian continent.

According to the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) country data obtained 2.219 billion dollars in revenue by tourism, this represents an increase of 11.5% in comparison with figures for the 2011.

The number of visitors per year, continues to exceed the 2 million and continues to increase.

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