LatinNews Daily - 18 July 2025

*Costa Rica’s tourism institute (ICT) has released new figures showing that 1.49m tourists flew into the country in the first six months of 2025, down 2.8% on the same period in 2024. Tourism Minister William Rodríguez attributed the drop to the global context of economic uncertainty and geopolitical conflicts. He said however that the ICT was projecting that the year would close with between 2.66m and 2.87m tourists visiting the country via air, representing a 1.7% increase. He said that these hopes for recovery were based on the fact that 13 new air routes would be operating in the second half of the year as well as plans for record investment (over US$43m) by the ICT to promote Costa Rica as a tourism destination to key markets. According to the ICT, 1.12m tourists flew into the country from North America (US, Canada, and Mexico) in the first half of the year, representing a 2.9% drop on the same period in 2024, while 215,518 tourists flew in from Europe (-7.7%) and 73,378 (+14.9%) from South America.

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