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UK becomes Costa Rica's largest European source market

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Will Payne
27 July 2022

The UK has become Costa Rica’s largest European source market after 40,000 British travellers visited the country between January and June 2022 – a number "very close" to pre-pandemic levels.

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The UK is followed by Germany (39,718), France (38,780) and Spain (23,068) in current 2022 visitor numbers, according to new data from the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT).

The organisation said the country has seen a "massive increase" of UK arrivals since 2021 and is now close to reaching pre-pandemic arrival figures (41,810 UK visitors in 2019).
 
Rob Wilson, UK representative of ICT, said: "We are delighted that Brits are returning to Costa Rica and to see how the UK has moved from last year’s travel restrictions to becoming Costa Rica’s largest source market in Europe at the moment.