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Projects are in different phases, some are ready to open
This type of signatures offers a very high service quality to its guests
350 acres next to the mountains of Santa Teresa de Cajón, Pérez Zeledón, Altagracia hotel offers 50 houses, three different styles, according to the rates payable. The new ’boutique’ hotel will employ 200 people when in full operation.
Seven of the boutique hotels, which offer a high quality personalized service, will be added to the hosting offer of Costa Rica. The Department of Tourism Management of the ICT explained that this is hotel La Altagracia Lodge in Perez Zeledon; hostel Clepsidra Lodge (Bethlehem, Heredia) and hotel Punta La Jolla (Central canton in Puntarenas). Also, in Guanacaste, the condohotel Altos del Risco (Parrot) and Esplendor Hotel Tamarindo, Santa Cruz; while in San José open the Green Residence Hotel and Suites, and the Villa Vista, in Escazu. According to the AFL, these projects will add 291 rooms and will generate 213 jobs. Some are under construction and others in the processing of permits. One of the most developed countries is Altagracia, which opened on 15 January but will be fully operational from 1 June. Advantages. These hotels will join the 45 already operating in the country and can be classed as such, he said the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT). However, of the total, only 13 are certified as boutique of the ICT, because the process is voluntary. Between them, offer 394 rooms and generate 727 jobs. This type of web hosting is not for mass tourism, but for customers with high purchasing power seeking service, tranquility and comfort, so generally the local have very few rooms. The boom in this type of establishments increased in recent years, coincided Gustavo Alvarado, director of tourism management and consulting of the ICT, and Gustavo Araya, president of the Costa Rican Chamber of Hotels. Alvarado said that Costa Rica has a important particularity, as it provides services recognized as being of high quality. He added that these visitors have a greater economic capacity; that is to say, middle-class high up. These factors facilitate the development of this type of hotels, which offer personalized services, immersed in an atmosphere of luxury, specifically for tourism of high purchasing power. For Alvarado, this segment has a positive and promising future for the country, with the latest trends show that those who invest in their holiday, makes it in environments of that level. For its part, Araya felt that the strong growth in the last three years of this type of tourism is in concordance with a global trend. He recalled that, when the activity was in crisis, the segment of high purchasing power was the only record that increases. The boutique tourism and conventions and congresses, are those of greatest potential and in which Costa Rica should invest, he added the employer. Good expectations led to the family Esquivel to invest more than $40 million in the hotel La Altagracia, located in Santa Teresa Drawer, Perez Zeledon. This local boutique type looking for position to Pérez Zeledón as a tourist destination in the country, said Cristina Jones, Director of Marketing and Public Relations.
