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Tourism in Costa Rica, the Glossary

Tourism in Costa Rica has been one of the fastest growing economic sectors of the country and by 1995 became the largest foreign exchange earner.^[1]

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Adventure travel

Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.

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Alajuela

Alajuela is a district in the Alajuela canton of the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica.

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Alajuela (canton)

Alajuela is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site

The Area de Conservación Guanacaste is a network of protected areas and a World Heritage Site in Guanacaste Province, in northwestern Costa Rica.

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Arenal Volcano (Volcán Arenal) is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around northwest of San José, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortuna.

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Arenal Volcano National Park

Arenal Volcano National Park (Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal) is a Costa Rican national park in the central part of the country, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area.

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Art gallery

An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Backpacking (hiking)

Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day.

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Barbilla National Park

Barbilla National Park is a national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca.

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Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels, Cartago

The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Our Lady of the Angels Basilica) is a Roman Catholic basilica in Costa Rica, located in the city of Cartago and dedicated to the Virgen de los Pardos, officially known as Virgen de los Ángeles (the Lady of the Angels).

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Birdwatching

Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.

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Braulio Carrillo National Park

Braulio Carrillo National Park is a national park in Heredia Province, Cartago Province, Limón Province and San José Province, in central Costa Rica.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Bungee jumping

Bungee jumping, also spelled bungy jumping, is an activity that involves a person jumping from a great height while connected to a large elastic cord.

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Business travel

Business travel is travel undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting between one's home and workplace.

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Cahuita

Cahuita is a district of the Talamanca canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica.

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Cahuita National Park

Cahuita National Park is a terrestrial and marine national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the southern Caribbean coast in Limón Province, connected to the town of Cahuita.

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Camino de Costa Rica

The Camino de Costa Rica (Way of Costa Rica) is a long hiking trail across Costa Rica.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Caribbean Basin

The Caribbean Basin or Caribbean Proper (or the Caribbean Basin regionUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, "Caribbean Basin Initiative--1983: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 544, April 13, 1983." Volume 98, Issue 277 of S.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Cartago, Costa Rica

Cartago is the head city of Cartago canton of the Cartago Province, and is composed of the Oriental and Occidental districts as stated in the administrative divisions of Costa Rica.

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Celeste River

Celeste River is a river in Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Central Bank of Costa Rica

The Central Bank of Costa Rica (Banco Central de Costa Rica) is the central bank of Costa Rica.

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Child prostitution

Child prostitution is prostitution involving a child, and it is a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chirripó National Park

Chirripó National Park is a national park of Costa Rica, encompassing parts of three provinces: San José, Limón and Cartago.

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Cocos Island

Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately southwest of the Costa Rican mainland.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.

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Corcovado National Park

Corcovado National Park (Parque Nacional Corcovado) is a National Park on the Osa Peninsula, in Osa Canton, located on the southwestern regions of Costa Rica (9° North, 83° West), which is a part of the Osa Conservation Area.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture

The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura (Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture) is a science and culture museum complex in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rican Tourism Board

The Costa Rican Tourism Board (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo) is the government agency responsible for promoting sustainable tourism in Costa Rica.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Dentistry

Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Ecotourism in Costa Rica

Ecotourism is a key component of the tourism industry in Costa Rica.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Flamingo, Costa Rica

Playa Flamingo (Flamingo Beach) is one of Costa Rica's most popular beaches with fine white sand.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foreign direct investment

A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset (e.g. purchase of land and building).

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Garabito (canton)

Garabito is a canton in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Guanacaste Province

Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern region of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

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Guayabo National Monument

Guayabo National Monument (Monumento Nacional Guayabo), is an archaeological site near the city of Turrialba, within the Central Conservation Area in the Cartago Province, Costa Rica.

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Hotel

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.

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Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica.

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Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Irazú Volcano

The Irazú Volcano (Volcán Irazú) is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago.

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Irazú Volcano National Park

Irazú Volcano National Park, or in Spanish the Parque Nacional Volcán Irazú, is a National Park in the Central Conservation Area of Costa Rica that encompasses the area around the Irazú Volcano in Cartago Province which incorporates what used to be the Ruben Torres Rojas Forest Reserve now called the Prusia Forest Reserve.

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Jacó, Costa Rica

Jacó is a district of the Garabito canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.

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Joint Commission

The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs.

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La Amistad International Park

The La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish Parque Internacional La Amistad, formerly the La Amistad National Park, is a transboundary protected area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica (Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Areas) and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site list in 1983.

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La Nación (Costa Rica)

La Nación is a Costa Rican newspaper.

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La Selva Biological Station

La Selva Biological Station is a protected area encompassing 1,536 ha of low-land tropical rain forest in northeastern Costa Rica.

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Lankester Botanical Garden

The Lankester Botanical Gardens (also known as the Jardín Botánico Lankester or Charles H. Lankester Botanical Garden) are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Latin Americans

Latin Americans (Latinoamericanos; Latino-americanos) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).

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Leisure

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.

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Limón

Limón, commonly known as Puerto Limón (Port Lemon in English), is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón Province, as well as of the Limón canton in Costa Rica.

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Limón Province

Limón is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica.

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List of airports in Costa Rica

This is a list of airports in Costa Rica, sorted by location.

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List of islands of Costa Rica

This is a list of islands of Costa Rica.

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List of museums in Costa Rica

This is a list of museums in Costa Rica.

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List of national parks of Costa Rica

In 2023 thirty National Parks of Costa Rica are managed under the umbrella of SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion), a department of Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE).

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Los Santos Zone

Los Santos Zone (Zona de los Santos) is a mountainous region in the San José Province of Costa Rica, in the center-south of the country.

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Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Manuel Antonio National Park

Manuel Antonio National Park (Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio) is a small national park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and from the national capital of San José.

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Medical tourism

Medical tourism is the practice of traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment.

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Melico Salazar Theatre

The Melico Salazar Theatre is located in San José, Costa Rica.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Monteverde

Monteverde is the twelfth canton of the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, located in the Cordillera de Tilarán (Tilarán range).

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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces.

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Montezuma, Costa Rica

Montezuma is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica which began as a remote fishing village and has gained popularity since the 1980s among tourists on a budget.

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Mount Chirripó

Cerro Chirripó is the highest mountain in Costa Rica, with an elevation of 3,821 meters (12,536 feet).

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Museo del Jade

The Museo del Jade is an archaeological museum in San José, Costa Rica.

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Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica is the national museum of Costa Rica, located in the capital of San José.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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National Center for Policy Analysis

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) was a non-profit American think tank whose goals were to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control. Topics it addressed include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, education, and environmental regulation.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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National Insurance Institute

The National Insurance Institute (Instituto Nacional de Seguros or INS) is an autonomous institution, which was responsible for Costa Rican insurance monopoly in that country until 2008, when insurances were opened to a competitive market.

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National park

A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.

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National Theatre of Costa Rica

The 1,140-seat National Theatre of Costa Rica (Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica) is Costa Rica's national theatre, located in the central section of San José.

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Nature Air

Nature Air was a regional airline headquartered in San José, Costa Rica that offered a scheduled service to a range of tourist destinations in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.

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New 7 Wonders of Nature

New 7 Wonders of Nature (2007–2011) was an initiative started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Organization for Tropical Studies

The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)/Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET), founded in 1963, is a non-profit consortium of over 50 universities and research institutions based in the United States, Latin America, and South Africa.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Papagayo Peninsula

Papagayo Peninsula is located on the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica in the northwest province of Guanacaste. It is located in the Golfo de Papagayo and was formed by volcanic activity as the Caribbean tectonic plate continuously overrode the Cocos Plate and by subsequent weather erosion.

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Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar

Parque Nacional Simón Bolívar (Zoológico Simón Bolívar) is an urban park of approximately 14 hectares, located in downtown San José, Costa Rica.

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Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body.

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Playa Herradura, Costa Rica

Playa Herradura (Herradura Beach) is a coastal town in the Central Pacific Region of Costa Rica.

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Playa Zancudo

Playa Zancudo is a village in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica near the Golfo Dulce.

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Poás Volcano

The Poás Volcano (Volcán Poás), is an active stratovolcano in central Costa Rica and is located within Poas Volcano National Park.

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Poás Volcano National Park

Poás Volcano National Park (Parque Nacional Volcán Poás) is a national park in Costa Rica that covers an area of approximately; the summit of Poás Volcano located within the park is at an elevation of.

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Poster child

A poster child (sometimes poster boy or poster girl) is, according to the original meaning of the term, a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters or other media as part of a campaign to raise money or enlist volunteers for a cause or organization.

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Pre-Columbian Gold Museum

The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum (Museo del Oro Precolombino, officially Museo de Oro Precolombino Álvaro Vargas Echeverría) is a museum in San José, Costa Rica.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring, pimping, or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Puerto Viejo de Talamanca

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is a coastal town in Talamanca in Limón Province in southeastern Costa Rica, known simply as Puerto Viejo to locals.

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Puntarenas

Puntarenas is a city in the Puntarenas Province, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

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Puntarenas Province

Puntarenas is a province of Costa Rica.

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Quepos

Quepos is a district of the canton of Quepos, in the province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

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Rafting

Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.

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Rainforest Alliance

The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with staff in more than 20 countries and operations in more than 70 countries.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Resort

A resort (North American English) is a self-contained commercial establishment that tries to provide most of a vacationer's wants, such as food, drink, swimming, accommodation, sports, entertainment and shopping, on the premises.

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Rincón de la Vieja National Park

Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja), is a National Park in Guanacaste Province of the northwestern part of Costa Rica.

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Rincón de la Vieja Volcano

Rincón de la Vieja is an active andesitic complex volcano in north-western Costa Rica, about from Liberia, in the province of Guanacaste.

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Rural tourism

Rural tourism is a form of tourism that focuses on actively participating in a rural lifestyle.

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San José, Costa Rica

San José (meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name.

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Santa Cruz (canton), Costa Rica

Santa Cruz is a canton in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.

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Santo Domingo, Costa Rica

Santo Domingo is a canton in the Heredia province of Costa Rica.

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Sarchí (canton)

Sarchí is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.

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Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a city, town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast.

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Sex tourism

Sex tourism is the practice of traveling to foreign countries, often on a different continent, with the intention of engaging in sexual activity or relationships in exchange for money or lifestyle support.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Souvenir

A souvenir (French for 'a remembrance or memory'), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it.

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Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.

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Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Tamarindo is a district of the Santa Cruz canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, located on the Nicoya Peninsula.

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Tapantí National Park

Tapantí - Cerro de la Muerte Massif National Park, (Parque Nacional Tapantí - Macizo Cerro de la Muerte), is a national park in the Central Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago.

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Tenorio Volcano National Park

Tenorio Volcano National Park (Parque Nacional Volcán Tenorio) is a national park in the northern part of Costa Rica, which forms part of the Arenal Tempisque Conservation Area.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tortuguero National Park

Tortuguero National Park is a national park in the Limón Province of Costa Rica.

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Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report was first published in 2007 by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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Turrialba (canton)

Turrialba is a canton in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

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Turrialba Volcano

Turrialba Volcano is an active volcano in central Costa Rica that has been explosively eruptive in recent years including 2016 and in January, March and April 2017.

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Turrialba Volcano National Park

Turrialba Volcano National Park, or in Spanish the Parque Nacional Volcan Turrialba is a national park in the Central Conservation Area of Costa Rica that encompasses the area around the Turrialba Volcano in Cartago Province.

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Ujarrás

Ujarrás is a village and historical site in the Orosí Valley of Cartago Province in central Costa Rica, southeast of the provincial capital of Cartago.

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UN Tourism

UN Tourism (UNWTO until 2023) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism.

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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish and Portuguese CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation.

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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Veja (magazine)

(English: see, look) is a Brazilian weekly news magazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by media conglomerate Grupo Abril.

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Visa policy of Costa Rica

The visa policy of Costa Rica requires that any foreign national wishing to enter Costa Rica must obtain a visa from one of the Costa Rican diplomatic missions, unless they hold a passport issued by one of the 95 eligible visa exempt countries or if the fulfill the requirements for a substitute visa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Costa_Rica

Also known as Medical tourism in Costa Rica.

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