www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Anywhere there are men with money to spend there will be prostitution--even in the surrounding area of a Disney property.

Do not remember where I read it but somewhere it was stated that no country in the world spends more per capital on sex and sex related items (movies, books, toys, etc.) than the "puritan" (hypocritical) USA.
There is no law here (Costa Rica) making prostitution illegal nor is there a law making it legal. There are laws making the profiting from prostitution (pimping) illegal.

As for it being tolerated here, I would tend to think it is a little more than tolerated. Even eliminating the hand full of places whose primary business is catering to the sex tourist, there are still over 100 MPs with an average of 10 chicas per MP. There are over 150 bars with rooms and open to chicas "working" in the bars and renting the rooms. There are approximately 30 strip/night clubs with rooms for the chicas to use. Just in the greater San Jose area there are over 50 hotels where you can rent a room short time (by the hour). Almost every barrio has at least 1 or 2 or more chicas "freelancing" in the barrio (many are und***ge). There are several hundred chicas who work solely by appointment thru ads in the newspapers, the internet, and social media. The largest and most popular local web site among the Ticos is the adult section of the Foro de Costa Rica. The last figures I saw from the CR government estimated there were over 6000 women working in the profession at least part time. That is almost 1.5 % of the total population and over 5% of the females between the age of 18 and 40. Yes, the sex tourism is a small percentage, and really only tolerated by the officials. Most individuals here want sex tourism done away with. As for the sex industry among the Ticos, it is more something that exists without being talked about, and most wives seem to expect the men to partake. But it is more than "tolerated" it is big business here!!

Apparently it's just a hoax

From 12/4 Tico Times:

By Wednesday afternoon, The Walt Disney Parks and Resorts press office had denied the claims. Sarah Domenech, public relations manager for Disney Destinations, told The Tico Times "the news is completely false."

I took a class or a seminar at Disney in 72 and we were told that a group of 4 investors from all different parts of the USA posing as farmers for agricultural purposes looking to purchase land. They bought all the land except one parcel almost in the center that they bunkered around it and called it the bunker all you could see was an American Flag. Come on now if 200-250 people started looking at swamp land in central Florida all of sudden that would raise some ? since most of the land was owned by old families.

I have a friend that told me Disney bought 17000+ acres in Guanacaste.

I got word today from my friend that Disney did buy the property.

On one hand, I'm glad that this will provide jobs for the ticos, but hope it doesn't detrimentally affect our hobby here in San Jose. How long do you think it will it take for the monstrosity to be up and running?

In another Post, I said our hobby usually works best in semi-secluded locations or colonies. Believe that Disney will do everything in their power to keep the clientele from spending anything directly into the CR fundstream (sweet seclusion). It will be a short-term big boon to constructioners, longer term to service providers (and hooray to all local provisioners) but I don't see it as impacting our hobby much. The more flagrant SJ providers may suffer crimpage ("tone it down a bit, willya?") but a lot of their audience isn't aware of our more stealthy, you're-a-fool-to-show-your-ass Bro-hood so...And besides, we pay better and provide much more excitement to the Chicas.
Concern is warranted but not fear.