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Sarapiqui River

by Jesse on June 22, 2020

Heredia. It is the Costa Rican province of smaller size, but not for this reason, it is less interesting to know. In Heredia, nature, mingles with the science, and the Costa Rican traditions. This combination not only occurs in this region of the country; but in this province are the facilities of two organizations of great renown at the international level, Intel (in the field of computer processors), and INBIO (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, in the field of research and management of biodiversity). This Institute has a park ecotourist, where the visitor can see more characteristic of Costa Rica ecosystems, the Central Valley forest, moist forest, dry forest and wetland. Debbie Staggs has plenty of information regarding this issue. The Barva volcano, the Sarapiqui River, the falls of Varablanca and Monte de La Cruz, are some of the sites that show the visitor, the natural beauties that this province has.

Carthage. Headquarters of the first capital which took Costa Rica (Cartago City) is province is an interesting combination of natural and historic sites that make to walk, enjoy the beautiful Carthaginian spots and when in contact with our country’s past. The rios Pacuare and Reventazon (ideals for rafting lovers), Irazu and Turrialba, and the lagoon of the Cachi volcanoes, are a good sample of what nature offers those who visit Cartago. In this province, one has the opportunity of being in historical sites such as the Guayabo national monument Indigena’s, the ruins of Ujarras, the Orosi Church and others who give testimony of Costa Rica in the past was like. Guanacaste. For many, the province of Guanacaste, is that offers greater variety of natural sites visitors: beaches, rivers and waterfalls of great beauty, towering volcanoes, mystical Caverns, charm forests, thermal curative waters and even shared with Alajuela, Lake Arenal, the larger size of Costa Rica. Surfing, windsurfing, kite boarding and canopy, are some of the activities that you can practice in this beautiful province.

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Developing Sustainable Tourism

by Jesse on December 16, 2013

In a first moment, rural tourism has been identified with the type of accommodation that was offered. Later, the fact travel to rural areas in order to enjoy the landscape and the environment, although outside passively, became, together with the accommodation, reference and main motivation of rural tourism. The binomio ter accommodation served to retrieve the rural architecture, traditional houses, cisterns, etc. as well as traditional utensils around which are projected local cultural activities, joining the tourist offer of the destination.At any given time, the rural tourism evolves according to the needs of consumers who adopt an active role, i.e., participate in the activities offered by the destination they visit, and even demand new ones. In this way, both characteristics to the environment (accommodation or rural and natural resources), and recreational and sports activities which are proposed, printed to the place a unique attraction and help to configure it as a bid tourist rural.Tourism thus contemplated supposes an important complement of incomes in rural areas, and even in some areas becomes the cambered main activity of the local economy.

Among its important positive effects include: economic impact. The tourist activity in the rural environment causes the diversification of the economy, breaking with the practical exclusivity of agricultural activity, and generating additional revenue. Tourism moved as well as significantly to the rest of the economic sectors: facilitates the permanence of farms and activities, allows in-situ agro production livestock marketing, and contributes significantly to the preservation of craftsmanship autochthonous. environmental impact. The most significant are those that have to do with raising awareness for the protection and conservation of the environment, as well as the recovery of rural natural and architectural heritage. impact social. The main consequences for the local population are the improvement of their standard of living, the decline of the rural exodus and the creation of new jobs.It is important to note that not all are positive effects, also causes negative effects.

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