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Costa Rica Tourism Bracing for the Slowdown

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As the U.S. economy survives day to day, the Costa Rican tourism industry awaits anxiously the ramifications of the volatile financial markets on the normally lucrative, but suddenly quite uncertain, tourist high season.

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