The presidential race is on again after a break during the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Many in Costa Rica are looking forward to the new year, a year that his hopefully full of optimism and prosperity in all sectors. Or at least a better year than last.
Imaginative travellers could find Costa Rica holidays appealing next year after the country was included in TravelMail's list of travel trends for 2010.
The morning calm of the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport was broken with the sounds of the sirens of the dozen ambulances and half dozen fire trucks rushing to the cargo terminal of the airport, when the Continental jetliner that had minutes before taken off from the Santamaría, announced its return to port.
Motif Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based outsourcing company, announced they will open a new service center in Costa Rica. The company, which provides customer support, back office processing, research and analytics and online fraud prevention services to Fortune 500 companies, said they intend to invest $2.5 million in the center, which is set to begin operations in January 2010.
In a recession year, a boost to Costa Rica's struggling economy came with the arrival or relocation of new businesses to the country. Many companies, particularly in the software and medical fields, either established or announced plans to open operations in Costa Rica in 2009.
At a time when Costa Rica's trade deficit has grown to its largest size in more than a decade, the country's smallest export continues to be its biggest moneymaker. That product is the Intel Pentium processor, or the microchip, which continues to be the flagship export for Costa Rica, even in a year of overall economic decline.
This Central American country tops the Happy Planet Index.
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