The day started off with another great breakfast: fruit, cheese, eggs, and rice and beans. We waiting around for a while and eventually headed off to a meeting room where all of the lectures were held. We had the most amazing lunch: tomato basil soup, salad, potatoes, chicken and fish. Went back for more lectures. Dr. Lanier blessed us with a gift from God. No, not the body of Christ, but chocolate covered coffee beans. I probably had about 10, however I was still fishing during the last lectures. Some interesting facts that I learned today:
- Ms. Gibson with CINDE
- Reasons why people should come to Costa Rica for business:
- Quality people.
- Business climate
- Political environment
- Over 80% of GDP is from trade activities with foreign countries
- Costa Rica exports 4,562 different products to 147 destination countries
- Costa Rica is moving from an agriculture economy to a manufacturing and service economy
- Costa Rica is the safest country to live and work out of
- Foreigners have the same rights and obligations as locals
- Mr. Morales lectured about Costa Rica- A Travel Destination
- Costa Rica travel products:
- Eco-tourm
- Cultural trousin- rural tourism
- Adventure tourism
- Sports tourism
- Leisure
- Educational
- Business.
- 60% of tourist in Costa Rica are from US
- US economy determines Costa Rica tourism
- Cannot have mutli destinations in central America because of difficultly of travel and driving.
- Mr. Beer talked about trade promotion management
- Sectors
- Agriculture
- Food
- Industrial
- Services
- Mr. Central America
- Central America is about the size of France
- Social and economic differences within the Central America countries make it difficult for them to unite
Here are some more pictures from the past few days:
(view from the hotel)
(just a pretty flower)
The City is not what I expected. Take more pictures. Have a good time!
ReplyDeleteI can see why many US people want to live and work there. Glad you are learning so much.
ReplyDeleteVery, very interesting. Hope you won't be giving us a quiz when you get home. Not sure I feel like studying anymore. Glad you are having so much fun, and learning so much. How about bringing home some of those chocolate covered coffee beans. Yumm!!
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you are getting a bit of everything, fun, education, food and sights. Absorb all that you can so you can tell us all about it. Have a great time doing all of the above.
Granny & Granddaddy