Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism

From: NACLA Report on the Americas | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Honey, Martha | Copyright information

In the late 1980s, Costa Rica was turned from a staging ground fortheU.S.-funded contra war into a laboratory for 'green' tourism.

Costa Rica is the poster child for ecotourism. This brand of nature-based tourism, which seeks to be low impact and provide tangible benefits for both the environment and host communities, is widely said to be the fastest growing sector of the tourism industry. And tourism, in turn, rivals oil as the world's largest industry. Today, nearly every country in ...

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