LAS VEGAS—Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp., an emerging travel and hotel management company operating online travel booking site 128trip and hotel management subsidiary Hotel PURE, reported that it has added five GREEN certified hotels in Costa Rica to its Hotel PURE portfolio.
Following the addition of a new eco-friendly brand, Hotel PURE GREEN, which debuted on August 20, 2008, the company has added five new hotels, which are GREEN certified or participating in the government of Costa Rica’s Certification for Sustainable Tourism (CST), to its Hotel PURE offerings. With the recent migration of a large number of vacation tourists from the Caribbean to Central America looking for natural wonders other than the beach and sun, the government of Costa Rica is forecasting a 20 percent increase of tourists in 2008—from 1.9 million visitors last year to 2.4 million visitors this year. This is evidenced by the increase of flights by major airlines flying into San Jose and Liberia, Costa Rica, amid decreases of flights into the Caribbean countries and Mexico.
“Adding these eco-friendly GREEN hotels to our Hotel PURE portfolio is merely our first step to promoting these hotels,” says Ken Chua, president of Oriens. “We will introduce a new unique tour with accommodation experiences in these hotels shortly to further expose the green of Costa Rica.”
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