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In an article published today, sex tourism is only about 13% of total tourists.
Excerpt of article:
On any given day, San Jose center hosts between 500 and 900 business tourists (come for work) using the heart as the seat of the capital's business and meetings.
In those same 24 hours, an estimated area of 1,000 tourists staying in nature, between 400 and 800 health, 400 students and 400 travelers sex tourists.
That is, on average, the center of the capital is home to 3,000 tourists daily, who come only from outside.
To do so, has 118 hotels, of which 88% are foreigners as their primary clientele.
These estimates are part of the study "Tourists in San Jose center: who they are, what they do and how they impact the environment," prepared by the researcher and National University sociologist Eduardo Castellanos Mora and presented last June.

link for full article
http://www.elfinancierocr.com/negocios/ ... 81239.html

Not surprising. If you go through the archives there are numerous threads where mongers insist that without them them San Jose and the gulch especially would go broke.

Some of us have disputed that and felt that the impact of mongers was vastly over rated. Nice to see some thing other then "gut feeling" coming out and defining the impact of sex tourism on the economy.

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Interesting post Wiseash. That is about what I thought. Probably a microscopic % out of San Jose in tourist areas.

Under what category do you put the guy who comes to SJ on business and also goes to the Del Rey and picks up a chica?

Devo

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Yep....very true - despite the belief by some that Costa Rica is one huge whore house, its just not true, nor is it true that guys coming down for sex is a significant part of their overall tourism. (It might be significant for individual business, like HDR, HLH, Sportsmans, etc - but not for tourism as a whole).




Depends on his motive for traveling.....if its truly business (vs Monkey Business ), then he is a business traveler - if you get on a plane with nothing in mind but your hard dick, ie really sex tourism, that's what we are talking about in this thread. 2 different motivations; one is business, the other sex - seems not like hair splitting, at least to me

400 out of 3,000 is 13.3%

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And how much do you think the nature tourists and students are spending while visiting?

Dont forget we, the mongers, also spend on nature. In addition, we feed ticas ( not chica) and their families by donating huge amounts of money in return for their time when they are in
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I guess I am suspicious on how the researchers determined the percentages. How many of you tell the truth when asked why you visit Costa Rica?

Devo

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Don't ever fool yourself. This country doesn't give two shits if gringo travel for this purpose disappears tomorrow. They would never even feel it. Some delude themselves but that is all it is.

Today's AM Costa Rica had an article about the decline of tourists past 5 years but with a slight up tick last year to 850,000 as reported by the Govt's Tourismo public relations cabinet. Hotel Owners Assn saying really, where are they?

Problem is, as editor Jay Brodell opines, is that CR Tourismo officials include in their tourismo numbers people visiting from Nicaragua which he claims are huge numbers. To me, if true, that would skew any scholarly article/opinion about this sex tourist issue if it was statistically based on #'s from immigration data, taking the Hotel Owners Assn position. The article wiseash posted was in spanish and I didn't convert it to english so I don't know for sure if the PhD Sociologist who authored it was using government immigration data. But if he wasn't, upon what empirical data could form the basis of his conclusions?

I have no opinion about the numbers of gringo tourist players, what they contribute to the CR economy or don't, or their value or lack thereof to any aspect of CR. The only opinion I would offer is that no one could really tell until they shut "it" down, like Puerto Rico did, or maybe say put it underground? In CR, 4 or 5 of our popular haunts would obviously be gone. The Presidente and Gran Hotel already decided it wasn't worth it, as have many other places who have never been friendly. Other then that, we'd have to wait and see.


http://www.amcostarica.com/index.htm

Once again this thread shows that nothings has changed in the perception of some mongers that they are very very important to the Costa Rica economy.

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@Irish Drifter, you are absolutely correct. For the past 20 years I have been listening to beer swilling expats talk about how important the believe they are to the local economy. It is not true now, nor has it ever been a fact. Perhaps during the "Brothers" years there were gringos throwing around a little more cash but even that was not significant. In fact, the number of us that have invested in Costa Rica, bought homes, pay taxes and created businesses and local jobs is quite small. The view of the Costa Rican economy from the Gulch is through pu*sy colored glasses, and let me say this about that: the pu*sy a little further south is much better than it is here. To my brother mongers I say Go South.

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Ask any business that is not a hotel or bar catering to the whore trade and most likely they don't want the business. When the gringo spots disappear quite likely folks will applaud. And the Ticos will continue to know where to go. I'll just tag along.