Costa Rica seeks to attract new routes areas in fair in Las Vegas │ costadevelopers.com

Recently the country suffered the loss of some connecting flights who handled the TACA airline by what other companies have sought to supplement the missing.

The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) will participate in the World Routes 2013 international trade fair, which will take place from 5 to 8 October in the city of Las Vegas in the United States.
This event will feature the presence of 300 from airlines around the world, including for example KLM and Air France, two of the largest companies at the level of airlines.
The objective of this activity is to provide a space for these companies in the tourism industry to negotiate its services and products, through appointments previously scheduled with different entities from tourism agencies, business chambers and others.
Are some of the airlines that will be present in l activity in addition to KLM and Air France, British Airways, Air Asia, American Airlines, United Airlines and Lufthansa.
By Costa Rica, the Minister of tourism, Allan Flores, told the newspaper La Nacion that this participation aims mainly to consolidate existing relationships and create new linkages with other global airlines to strengthen and facilitate the development of new air routes from major markets for Costa Rica.
"Through this activity, create and strengthen relationships with airlines that represent or may mean a development of optimal air services for tourism in our country. In addition, the institution will release capabilities, strengths tourist and airport services", said Flores.The Costarican Institute of tourism
participates in activity accompanied by representatives of the two main airports of Costa Rica, the Juan Santa Maria International Airport and the Daniel Oduber international airport located in the province of Guanacaste in the North Pacific.
19 Edition of the 2013 World Routes will be attended by more than 3000 participants coming from 100 different countries around the world.
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Delta Announces flight from Minneapolis to San Jose

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Delta is one of the airlines that have imposed flights since the company AVIANCA-TACA put an end to some of its connections to Costa Rica.

Delta Airlines, one of the most important Airlines with a large presence in Latin America, and the United States announced that it will operate a temporary flight, during the periods from December 21 to 29 March (holiday high season), from Minneapolis to the Juan Santa Maria International Airport.

This new route will be operated by Boeing 757 aircraft, with capacity for 180 passengers and that as mentioned above, will begin to operate from the month of December, day 2.

Route which will implement Delta Airlines temporarily, consists of a non-stop flight from the city of Minneapolis to the airport Juan Santa Maria. This flight comes a part of routes already existing company between Costa Rica and the United States.

The new route of Delta Airlines already is ready to be bought by internet, recalling that flights will begin to operate from the month of December.

TACA-AVIANCA eliminated five direct flights and laid off more than 260 employees from its operations in the country.

Costa Rica Tourism Chamber estimated that the country could lose some 7,000 tourists each month due to the cancellation of routes

the Minister of tourism of Costa Rica, Allan Flores, commented on the new decision of Delta Airlines. "There are some of these routes that already they won't be operated by Avianca, which have been taken by other airlines as it is the case of Delta Airlines that starting from July 1, San Jose - Los Angeles will operate the route".

Despite the problems that may cause the airline AVIANCA-TACA decision already measures are taken to avoid these situations will continue in the future.

Costa Rica receives approximately two million tourists a year, many of them are from the United States, and so the inclusion of new routes promotes the arrival of Americans in the country and from other countries that use United States as transit country.

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