TOURIMS IN OUR COUNTRY

Nobody could say that traveling out the country would be a bad experience. Of course! Traveling around the world will be very good, to know many places, many cultures and taste all types of meals, sounds very good, doesn’t it?

My dream is to know The Riviera Maya in Mexico. Ooooh, it is a beautiful place! I affirm that because I've seen a thousand times on television that the Mexican culture, beaches, town and food are unique. Well, that is my dream; someday I will travel to Mexico. My reality is: I live in another beautiful country, who says no? Costa Rica is a great beautiful country, I like to travel to know other countries if I do not know mine?

The tourism in our country increases every year, according to the website Wikipedia. Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1.974 million foreign visitors in 2007… Since 1995 the tourism is the first foreign exchange earner for our country and since 1999, tourism earns more foreign exchange than bananas, pineapples and coffee combined. How? Well not only our coasts are very beautiful, also the rain forests, every town is so, so beautiful.

The negative, the increase in construction in the Guanacaste mountains is like an invasion, many buildings rather than forests.

This is the only picture I have, but in Guanacaste the mountains are destroyed to construct, hotels and houses for rich people. Our land at this step will no longer be ours.

The negative and very sad: drugs and prostitution in Jaco beach and that people recognize it or see it as normal, it is not normal, it is a problem.

HONESTLY, the foreign travelers take good care of nature and respect it, I've seen it in my rides for the beaches and other places. The tourism may be negative for many reasons, but everything is a balance, and the positive side is better. My personal opinion is the tourism is not negative, not the foreign person, the negative thing is what is offered here to the foreign travelers. The tourism is positive for us in the understanding that generates jobs, money spend in infrastructure, education, health and others for us, in good theory!