Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism: in the late 1980s, Costa Rica was turned from a staging ground for the U.S.-funded contra war into a lab ... An article from: NACLA Report on the Americas [HTML]

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Title: Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism: in the late 1980s, Costa Rica was turned from a staging ground for the U.S.-funded contra war into a laboratory for 'green' tourism. (Report On The Environment).
Author: Martha Honey
Publication: NACLA Report on the Americas (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: North American Congress on Latin America, Inc.
Volume: 36 Issue: 6 Page: 39(8)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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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 Latin America that is promoting tourism is also promoting some form of ecotourism. In no other country, however, has the experiment with ecotourism been as extensive as in Costa Rica. It seems that every traveler in the United States who is interested in nature has been to, or is heading for, Costa Rica. Costa Rica's ecotourism boom, while largely...


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