Yep... Our beloved Admin1 certainly had the foresight about CR.
Costa Rica Top Destination For the "Single Traveller"Inside Costa Rica - August 26, 2010
The magazine "Travel + Leisure" places Costa Rica at the top as the
best country in the world for single travel.In its latest publication, the magazine takes a look at the top 15 vacation spots for singles travel, taking into account several factors, among them basics for a foreigner to enjoy their stay in a country and security. The ministro de Turismo (Toursim minister), Carlos Ricardo Benavides, said he is proud of the ranking by the magazine, a publicatin that specializes in international travel. Costa Rica has grown increasingly in the world, has a good name and well positioned", said the minister.
Following Costa Rica in the Travel + Leisure ranking is Vietnam and Laos in third place.In addition, the 2010 Global Peace Index (GPI) places 26th of 149 countries ranked by their peacefulness (
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor). The Global Peace Index (GPI) is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected and collated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The list was launched first in May 2007 and then in May 2008 and on 2 June 2009 and recently 10 June 2010 and is claimed to be the first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness. It ranks 149 countries (up from 121 in 2007). Costa Rica's neighbours, Nicaragua placed 64th and Panama 61st. At the top of the GPI is New Zealand and the last place goes to Iraq.