Source: http://www.journalcr.com
Posted by Roger Vlasos
Broker/Owner
Century21 At the Beach
Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Website: http://www.century21incostarica.com
Email: roger@century21incostarica.com
(Infocom) – With the goal of obtaining more useful information about the tourists who visit Costa Rica, the Immigration Service has updated its system to record the number of visitors who come here by air.
Some 400,000 tourists arrived last year through Liberia’s Daniel Oduber International Airport alone, and the number is expected to significantly increase this year. That’s why it’s important to have updated statistics so that all parties involved in the tourism industry can anticipate what the demand for services will be in the entire Guanacaste province. The new data system is expected to be working by the end of the first quarter of this year.
Even though there’s already a system in place to record the number of tourists who choose Costa Rica for their vacations, such data is collected manually through a form that airlines have their passengers fill out.
The new system, on the contrary, will provide information in real time, that is, airlines will send data directly to the Immigration Service at the time passengers board the plane at their city of departure.
Currently, information about the number of visitors coming here and their city of origin takes between three and five months to arrive, depending on the season. From now on, such data will be known right away.
