As of October, over 55,000 British tourists visited Costa Rica. The institute statistics show that each British tourist who entered the Juan Santamaría International Airport had an average expense of $133 per day with a stay of close to 15 nights.

Last week, William Rodriguez, Minister of Tourism, said the projections for pandemic recovery predict the year 2024 or even 2025 as the time for returning to the 2019-level of visitors. But Rodriguez is determined to get to those levels by 2023. 

Recently, during the ninth edition of the "Times and Sunday Times Travel Awards", hosted by Britain's oldest national daily newspaper, The Times, Costa Rica was selected as the best emerging destination.

In March, the British TV show, “This Morning,” highlighted Costa Rica as a top tourist destination as part of the Tourism Institute media campaign.

Records show that during the first half of the year, there have already been over 1.2 million tourists in Costa Rica.

Just last year, over 1.3 million tourists visited Costa Rica.

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