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Costa Rica Hosts Upcoming Ecotourism Meeting
 
Costa Rica is set to host the next meeting of the International Task Force on Sustainable Tourism Development in February.

Participating countries including Australia, France, Germany, the United States and Great Britain have engaged in an almost two-year-old task force working on ways to prevent further ruin from tourism, culturally, economically and environmentally.

“I'm sure that it will be a fruitful meeting,” Costa Rican Tourism Minister Carlos Benavidas told reporters.

He boasted Costa Rica's green practices and efforts toward sustainable development. These efforts have helped lead the country to become a premier ecotourism destination.

“Tourism policies should foster an equal distribution of resources,” he said.

Benavidas also pointed to the country's goals to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, as President Oscar Arias declared in June. “By 2021, Costa Rica's 200th birthday, we will be a carbon neutral country.” That implies the tourism sector, too, Benavidas said.

“Costa Rica is a country with one of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world,” said Benavidas, but it also faces the problem of climate change, “a serious challenge for humanity.”

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