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With the publication of this Law in the Official Newspaper, the 250 Costa Rican companies dedicated to community-based tourism can initiate the process to choose a system of incentives and exemptions under Act 8724, in force since November 2009, designate rural community tourism activities as follows:
a) Rural guest tourism: the type of establishment with a minimum of three rooms with private bathroom, which can provide food services and is located in a rural environment, defined by the ICT.
b) Travel agencies specializing in rural community tourism, establishments located in rural areas which offer local tourist destinations.
c) Thematic activities specializing in community-based tourism: An area designed to provide tourist services and / or rescue of cultural heritage, tangible or intangible.
d) Food and beverage services, rural restaurants, eateries, local foods, sodas and home delivery of typical national food.
Read the Law 8724 of Rural Community Development Tourism (only in Spanish)
Read the regulations for the Law on Promotion of Rural Community Tourism (only in Spanish)
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February 2009
The government sent to Congress the General Law of Tourism Act and the Foster Tourism in Rural Communities Act.
Among others provisions, tourism will be declared to be in the "national interest," a National Registry of Tourism will be created where businesses with activities in this sector will be recorded, and the "rights and obligations of tourists" will be established.
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