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Finca Rosa Blanca Earns Perfect Score in Costa Rica’s Sustainable Tourism

Nearly 20 years since building their pioneering boutique hotel on a bare motocross field in the middle of coffee country in Santa Bárbara de Heredia, north of San José, Glenn and Teri Jampol of Finca Rosa Blanca Country Inn have received the country´s highest sustainable-tourism award, five “green leaves,” with an unprecedented 100 percent score.

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