Business travelers will enjoy their meetings, fairs or congresses at Costa Rica. The country has a modern infrastructure and excellent array of hotels and restaurants while traveling in Costa Rica.

For the year 2007, Costa Rica had predicted a growth in foreign tourism between 4 and 5%, nevertheless the 6.4% figure obtained in the first semester is higher than expected.

Searching for excellence, Costa Rica has developed the Certification in Sustainable Tourism Program - CST - is a product of the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT). CST was designed to differentiate tourism sector businesses based on the degree to which they comply with a sustainable model of natural, cultural and social resource management.

In Costa Rica it is possible to enjoy lovely tropical beaches, the grandest adventures, the wonders of nature, scintillating culture, all the necessary components to enjoy your time are in Costa Rica. Due to the weather characteristics and the topography of the country, different types of forests can be appreciated: the cloud forest, the rain forest, the dry forest, and the transition forest.

Costa Rica has a wide selection of modern hotels that cater to business travelers. At Costa Rica it is possible to have successful meetings in a delicious landscape: Rugged highlands are found throughout most of the country. There are several active volcanoes. The country has a relatively long coastline in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as a number of rivers and streams that attract specialist kayakers and rafters from all over the world.

A typical Costa Rican meal, commonly known as a casado, consists of rice, beans, sweet plantain, salad and some type of roasted or fried meat or fish. A casado, also sold as a "plato del día", is typically accompanied by a natural fruit juice (blackberry, pineapple, papaya etc.).

Costa Rica has many modern malls, shopping plazas, supermarkets, restaurants and fast food chains where visitors can enjoy local or international food. In larger towns, American food is easy to find, as is European, Middle-Eastern and Asian cuisine.

Costa Rica's official language is Spanish. In the capital of San José, English is widely spoken among the business community. On the Caribbean coast, a small minority of Jamaican descendants speaks a local version of English called Patois, and most Costa Ricans can understand and speak a bit of English.

Costa Rica’s economy is based on tourism, agriculture and electronics exports. Coffee and banana exports dominated the economy until 1998.