Two Million Visitors!
The Minister of Tourism, Carlos Benavides, forecasts that the number of tourists visiting Costa Rica a year will reach 2 million in late 2008. This is an amazing statistic given that there are only 4 million Costa Rica citizens.

He pointed out that the arrival of visitors increased by 11.3 percent (123,000) January through September this year.

He added that the figure is almost double what they had set in the National Development Plan for 2007.

Sources at the National Chamber of Tourism said that 1,216,000 tourists had visited Costa Rica the first nine months this year, not including land and sea arrivals.
 

Source: InsideCostaRica.com