In Costa Rica a hotel entrepreneur is confronting the Solis government, after it warned that companies carrying out commercial promotions in alliance with Uber will be penalized.
EDITORIAL
Can it be that businesspeople in Costa Rica nowhave to consult the government to validate their marketing plans and strategies for their products and services?
It has been announced that in early 2017 construction will begin of the first phase of a residential and commercial project consisting of three 21-story towers in Barrio Lujan, San Jose.
The real estate developer Kirebe plans to start the first stage of the complex, to be called Tri-o, in early 2017.Each of the three towers will be built within 2 to 3 years and the amount of investment announced for the first stage is $28 million.An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was submitted in December 2015.
All in one place. In the west of the capital of Costa Rica "mini-cities" are being built which meet the needs of this new lifestyle trend.
In the west of San José, four real estate projects are attempting to impose a new lifestyle. The first is "Avenida Escazú, whose initial phase was started in 2009 (medical towers, cinema, hotel, parking and residences) and which then added more cinemas, restaurants and shops," noted an article in Elfinancierocr.com.
There is a growing trend among hotel chains to buy international franchises in order to improve their management.
For example, in Costa Rica, the Ramada Herradura changed its name to Wyndham Herradura following an investment of $1 million last December. In 2011, the Gran Hotel Costa Rica transformed its brand, changing its name to Gran Hotel Costa Rica Ascend Collection.
The Hotel Ramada Herradura has been awarded a five-year management concession for the municipal beach resort in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
The award process will become official once it has been published in the Gazette. The Mayor of Puntarenas expects that the company will assume management later this year.
"The president of Herradura said that the business group that won the administration will pay ¢3 million a month to the municipality.