INFORMATION

Costa Rica’s National Tourism Chamber (CANATUR) was founded in 1974 as a non-profit organization, with the main purpose of integrating the private tourism initiative.

CANATUR is the leading entity of Costa Rican business organizations that brings together the highest hierarchy of the chambers and associations of the country’s private tourism sector, whose members represent the national tourism industry.

Thus, CANATUR represents the entire Costa Rican business sector, both consolidated and united, reason for which it is one of the organizations of the civil society with greatest prominence within the national arena.

Promote the development and sustainable growth of the tourism sector in a dynamic, proactive, and representative manner, through the consolidation of its financial, organizational, and human development. It will promote its acknowledgment in the national and regional public and private sector and will implement policies and projects that contribute to generate favorable conditions for the defense of the interests of the Associates.

Be the leading organization of the Costa Rican tourism industry, acknowledged as the most influential and representative business chamber in the country, consolidated, stable, safe, and respectable, with credibility, and ethical values. It will help obtain all necessary conditions, with the objective of achieving a competitive tourism activity and sustainable growth, both nationally and regionally

• Unify the criteria of the different entities of the organized private sector represented in CANATUR, through dialogue and agreements, in order to define a single position of the business sector with regard to the matters declared of general interest.
• Represent the Costa Rican private sector before the Supreme Powers of the Republic and different national and international instances, in defense of the interests of the country over those that are specific or of a specific sector.
• Promote the enactment of laws, stipulations, and measures that are beneficial to the supreme interests of the country and the Costa Rican private sector.
• Intervene and state its position in all those matters that directly affect private initiatives.
• Establish and offer friendship ties and cooperation with those national or international entities or organizations, whose principles or foundations are in agreement with those that inspire CANATUR.