CRT Team – 20th Anniversary

CRT Team celebrates this year 20 years of management and tourism operation in our country. As part of our celebration for so many years of continuous work and satisfaction with the effort given to thousands of customers, it was considered valuable to share this celebration with those entities whose work is the welfare of those who most need our help.

The principles of Sustainable Tourism and Corporate Social Responsibility has led us to collaborate in many common good activities, and this time we are honored to invite the Nursing Home Santiago Crespo from Alajuela to visit INBioparque and offer seniors and representatives of this institution a time for relaxation and entertainment.

This activity took place on last November 3^rd, 2009 which had the participation of colleagues from various departments, which assisted in the event and our partners, which were allowed to participate in this activity. We are very proud of the response obtained with this initiative and will continue working for the social projection in CRT not only as an action itself but as an enterprising culture.

Hotel Riu in Matapalo Beach, Guanacaste opens its doors

The spanish hotel chain Riu opened its first hotel in Costa Rica.  The Riu hotel in Guanacaste is a 5 star resort that is literally a few feet away from Matapalo beach.  Such hotel is characterized for its contemporary design and by the white sands of its beach.  The hotel counts on several ammenities such as various restaurants, 3 bars, a big pool with jacuzzi, a spa, gymnasium, sauna, casino and a dance floor. 

Riu hotel has 701 rooms with all the commodities to assure its clients the best and highest quality.  Its restaurants are comprised of an extensive range of selections and they are of all-inclusive type.

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CRT Team cleans river

On September 26, 2009; CRT Team collaborated with a “Cleaning of a River in Escazú”. This activity was part of the I National Cleanup Week organized by the Terra Nostra Association and is part of the world's largest voluntary movement of its kind promoted by The Ocean Conservancy.

At the end of the river cleaning, a counting and sorting of the different materials that were found was done, and that information was adjoined to national and international statistics.

Books of the Patrimony Center have become available on the Internet

The investigations that are published yearly the Patrimony Center of the Culture Department are already within reach of web surfers in the site: www.educatico.ed.cr 

This entry is from the Public Education Department, but thanks to an alliance with the Culture Department the section "Costa Rican Culture" offers digital versions of the different investigations on folklore, traditions, gastronomy, festivities, architecture and history that are developed each year the specialists of the Patrimony Center. 

Up to now there’s available seven documents in the website published in years prior 2009, among them Adobe Houses, elaborated by the investigators Elena Troyo and Fernando González; La jícara of Giselle Chang and Fernando González, and Ceramist Communities of Carlos Zamora and Fernando González. 

Six publications will be added gradually which have been published in 2009 by the Patrimony Center.  Of these new investigations there’s already online the National Tourism Circuit Collection, a series of tourist guides that offer comprehensive maps and information on the architectural milestones and the places of greater hereditary value of the provinces of Costa Rica.

In the next few weeks the remainder of the publications will be available online.  Some of these articles will be La Sabana: a park with history, General Cemetery of San José, The ornamentation of carretas in Costa Rica: origins and tendencies and historic Synthesis of the architectural structures of the old National Factory of Liquors.  

Costa Rica and Panama unite efforts against drug trafficking

The presence of illegal drug traficking groups in the border of Costa Rica and Panama has motivated both Governments to fortify patrolling and vigilance in order to reduce drug trafficking. 

This is one of the points that has become part of the Association Agreement signed yesterday in the Presidential Headquarters of Panama by the Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, and its Panamanian counterpart, Ricardo Martinelli.

In this sense, the Panamanian chancellor, Juan Carlos Varela, emphasized yesterday in a press conference, the decision of both Governments to take measures to fortify the frontier security. 

"The presence of illegal groups that want to utilize our countries to be able to move drug northward has become a problem", assured Varela. 

Due to this, like part of the agreement, there will be a creation of a binational commission that will take care of finding a solution to such threat. 

The Agreement also covers other areas of interest for the two countries, as explained by the Costa Rican chancellor, Bruno Stagno, who also witnessed the signing of the agreement. 

According to Stagno, the document centers around three large pillars: political dialogue, cooperation and commercial environment, that is supported by the Free Trade Agreement that was already signed by both nations in 2002. 

Besides, Costa Rica vouched for Panama to be incorporated in the negotiations with the European Union, without the need to adhere to the System of Economic Integration of Central America. 

The foreign trade minister, Vinicio Ruiz, who was also present in the signing of the treaty, has followed such reunions closely. 

President Arias and Panamanian president Martinelli told the press that they discussed the possibility to build a railroad that connects both countries. 

Nevertheless, they coincided that for the time being such railroad is nothing more than a dream and an idea.

"If over a hundred years ago the Panamanians built a channel, why not dream of a railroad?  Such a thing would be marvelous.  It would require an extremely abundant investment and prior feasibility studies", commented president Arias.