Merkapro Development Group

The $300 million Hyatt Hotel Resort, destined for Brasilito in Guanacaste but delayed for almost 12 months, will formally break ground next week, the developers have said. A group of 75 people, including a sales force of 35 brokers from both the United States and Canada, will descend upon Brasilito to get a first hand look at the building site. ...

EL DIAMANTE ; MATAPALO GUANACASTE   $48,000.000.00 EXCLUSIVE LISTING Unique property located in Matapalo, Guanacaste.  North of Flamingo and south of Papagayo, just 30 minutes from the international airport. With a total area of 281 hectares, the land offers more than 1 mile of ocean front and three different beaches. ...

(C.A. News) — With the goal of helping Guanacaste’s communities benefit more and more directly from the province’s tourist and economic development, the Central American Business Administration Institute (INCAE) kicked off this month the Positioning and Sustainability of Guanacaste’s Tourism Cluster program.The program ...

The crisis in the US housing and financial markets, already spreading to Germany and Japan, is not expected to have a serious impact in Costa Rica, experts said this week. Despite concerns with a record number of Americans set to lose their homes to foreclosure and house prices getting lower all the time, the general consensus is those buying in ...

China has proposed a petroleum exploration project in Costa Rica as part of a bilateral alliance in the area of fuels recently announced by the new diplomatic and trade partners. The state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), second largest in the world, will conduct preliminary geologic studies to determine the viability of finding ...

Delta Airlines and Continental Airlines have received recognitions by the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR), which recently awarded the best tourism sector business and businessmen in Costa Rica this year. Delta received the “Robert Smith” Merit Award, in the airline category, while Continental’s general manager, Salvador ...

Specialized human resource solutions company Manpower recently inaugurated its office in Liberia, the first by this firm in Guanacaste. Manpower’s expansion in Costa Rica has been relatively swift, as it opened its first office in the country only two years ago, in San Jose. The Liberia branch is its second one in Costa Rica.According to ...