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Mission

To satisfy our clients-guests beyond expectations, providing always the best possible value for our services and delivering them with a correct and positive attitude and dedication in developing sustainable tourism for Costa Rica, enjoying our work and always delivering our best.

Vision

CRT Team is about people! People with different lives, where hopes, dreams and our mission come together as a team, sharing our experiences with others from many nations, truly committed in the development of sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, as part of our endless pursuit for enlightening our lives.

Projects

By traveling with us you are contributing to several projects, amongst them:

Blue Flag Program - environmental education for school children.

Jaguar Conservation Project - co financing of a field investigation of the University of Costa Rica, to map genetic variety of the jaguar population in Costa Rica.

FONAFIFO - conservation and regeneration of forest in the Tempisque River basin to protect hydro resources in the Guanacaste province.

WWF – turtle conservation projects in Costa Rica.

Tips on traveling
Get to know us

Learn some phrases and their significance such as “Pura vida” and “Con mucho gusto”, we Tico’s appreciate the efforts you make.

Attend cultural events in the region you are staying, thus getting to know us and supporting our local heritage.

When taking pictures of persons, please use your camera with discretion & courtesy.

Never buy authentic archaeological artifacts, Costa Rica offers great souvenirs made by local artisans.

Visiting a Protected Area

Costa Rica has numerous National Parks, Reserves and privately owned protected areas for you to enjoy.

When visiting them, you may want to bring a small backpack with a pair of binoculars, camera, insect repellent and a bottle of water.

All protected areas have rules that regulate the protection of resources and the activities of visitors. All reserves operate under these rules and all visitors must respect them.

Do not feed the wildlife; they’ll suffer serious health problems.

Do not remove plants, animals, seashells or other materials as souvenirs.

Never buy souvenirs made from endangered animals or plants.

Please collect you garbage and take it with you.

Remember strict international laws prohibiting the purchase or transport of endangered animals and plants.


Code of Conduct…a step toward a social responsible travel & tourist industry

c—digo de conducta

As part of CRT Teams commitment to contribute to the betterment of the quality of life of the population in general and the protection of the fundamental rights of childhood and adolescence in particular, in February 2003 CRT signed the Code of Conduct for the protection of children and adolescents from commercial sexual exploitation in travel and tourism in Costa Rica.

General Company Policies

Taking into consideration the importance of a tourist sector based on the concept of sustainable development, and thus conducting an essential role in the protection and conservation of natural resources, it is determined:

1. That all activities involved in the production process of the company are developed under the concept of sustainable development, keeping in mind the environmental and social-economic aspects as starting points in the formulation of strategies that guarantee high quality standards in each one of the services that are offered.

2. To encourage all company personnel to create and maintain an environmental culture that permits them to develop their work in the best possible way and to obey all the norms established with the objective to maintain a stable and healthy environment.

3. Collaborating with the protection and conservation of the natural resources by cooperating with communities in which the company has a direct influence, as well as in areas visited by CRT.

4. To make known to suppliers, wholesalers and other companies with which CRT has business relationship, the social responsibility policy that the company has adopted among its main objectives, to contribute with the strengthening of norms and values in those areas of influence.

5. To respect the cultural and ethnic diversity of people who visit our country and to inform them on laws and norms that govern the Costa Rican legislation in social and environmental matter.

6. The Costa Rican idiosyncrasy is essential in our social projection towards visitors, its objective is to be the glue that holds together those policies that seek to promote sustainable tourism as the way to guarantee the preservation of the natural resources and the development of the tourism in parallel form.

7. To support protection and conservation of natural resources initiatives, in the national parks and reserves visited by the company and clients. This support positively influences the access of future generations to those resources and also will have a positive effect in the human development index of our country.

8. In those regions visited by the company promote participation of local communities in the planning and management of natural, cultural, patrimonial and human resources, in order to make profitable to them the incorporation of sustainable tourism into their economic activities, generating employment and promoting local development.

9. Complying with all established parameters of sustainability and to reach the objective of improving the quality of life of the communities involved, of all collaborators of the company and the environment in general.

 

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