A route towards modern, creative and innovative services as a contribution to sustainable development: The case of Tourism in Costa Rica
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rgac.73-2.10Keywords:
Tourism, Modern and Creative Services, Sustainable DevelopmentAbstract
Costa Rica, due to the characteristics of its territory, can offer modern, creative and innovative services in its tourism, based on knowledge, that use high technology and/or have qualified labor. Data from the BCCR indicates that, in the last decade, the percentage of tourism contribution to GDP was approximately 5%, therefore, a route is presented for sustainable and inclusive development, which enables quality jobs and promotes better redistribution of wealth among the inhabitants, framed with the commitment to the SDGs, adequate control of the macroeconomic variables of the domestic and international market; and changing the general tourism law, with the aim to have an activity governing body oriented to better coordination and management and its contribution to development.
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