Costa Rica Tourism Beguiles Agents in Toronto

Costa Rica Tourism officials have a pretty great product to sell, but they’re not above putting a different kind of spin on things.

Speaking to a crowd of more than 100 agents in downtown Toronto, officials said there are two seasons in Costa Rica; “a dry season and a green season.”

Later they confessed that it does sometimes rain in their part of Central America, but that means less crowds and more animals in action than you might during the hot, dry parts of the year.

Agents were told the literacy rate in Costa Rica is 97 percent and that 98 percent of the energy used in the country comes from renewable sources. It’s a small country (only 116 kilometers across at its narrowest point), but it has more bird species (922) than Canada and the U.S. combined, officials said.

The country’s two international airports (San Jose and Liberia) are served by 25 airlines, including Air Canada, WestJet and Sunwing, officials said.

Costa Rica also is the oldest democracy in Latin America. Spanish is the official language, but English is widely spoken in tourist areas.

Source: Travel Pulse Canada