Our Mision

Giving our client the best and comfortable experience in Costa Rica on the way on needs and wants, giving a professional and personalize service.

Also Frida Travel respect the policies for the  Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council (STSC) study, completed in January 2003, recommends the establishment of regional networks to encourage dialogue among stakeholders and act as a clearinghouse for certification information. The first network for the Americas was launched in Bahía, Brazil in September, 2003, thanks to the support of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB). Because significant interest in certification exists in Latin America and because the region boasts the largest concentration of certification programs of all developing nations, the Rainforest Alliance believes the Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas will evolve into a model that can be replicated in other regions.

The mission of this Network is to promote sustainable tourism in the region through the strengthening of tourism initiatives based on mutual respect and recognition, joint efforts, harmonization (balancing) of systems and the sharing of information and experience. Network objectives include the establishment of common work tools among network members and a joint marketing strategy, the generation of a set of "best management practices" for sustainable tourism based on existing regionally and nationally accepted standards, and the definition of strategies to promote the participation of tourism operations, focused on small-scale operations, to implement best practices and certification processes.

The mission of Frida Travel is to promote sustainable tourism in the region through the strengthening of tourism initiatives based on mutual respect and recognition, joint efforts, harmonization (balancing) of systems and the sharing of information and experience. Network objectives include the establishment of common work tools among network members and a joint marketing strategy, the generation of a set of "best management practices" for sustainable tourism based on existing regionally and nationally accepted standards, and the definition of strategies to promote the participation of tourism operations, focused on small-scale operations, to implement best practices and certification processes.

Recently Costa Rica has recently developed a program seeking to categorize and certify each tourism company according to the degree to which its operations comply to a model of sustainability. To this effect, four fundamental aspects are evaluated:

1.  Physical-biological parameters  Evaluates the interaction between the company and its surrounding natural habitat.

2.  Infrastructure and services
Evaluates the management policies and the operational systems within the company and its infrastructure.

3.  External clients
Evaluates the interaction of the company with its clients in terms of how much it allows and invites the client to be an active contributor to the company's policies of sustainability.

4.  Socio-economic environment
Evaluates the interaction of the company with the local communities and the population in general.

For each and every one of these items a list of specific questions was designed to help evaluate how thoroughly the firm complies with a series of standards previously established for the social, environmental and economics fields. Each and every one of the questions refers to an element of sustainability with which the firm should comply in order to qualify in any one of the different stages or levels of fulfillment, which for our purposes we have labeled "levels". The final rating will be assigned to the company in question according to the lowest  level achieved in any of the four fields evaluated.

To measure and fix these different levels, the CST program provides a system of "sustainability levels"", on a scale of 0 to 5, in which each number indicates the relative position of the firm in terms of sustainability. This scheme provides a way to classify the tourist firms in terms of "levels " in a system very similar to the commercial categorization of tourism companies by means of the well known stars system, this program is designed for hotels but in the next future will be a program.

Sustainability, as a model for development, establishes the need to satisfy the requirements of today's society without making it impossible for future generations to satisfy their own. Basically, this means that the development of a country cannot be achieved by the unrestrained exploitation of its resources (natural, cultural, social, etc.) to the point of extinguishing or destroying them, seeking to fulfill the needs of the present population (food, housing, health, work, etc.), without recognizing that these resources are the only platform, or potential asset, that the future generations of this country will have to meet their own needs.

For tourism, sustainability is not only a response to the demand factors of the industry, it is an indispensable condition to be able to compete successfully and, even more important, to be able to survive over the long run. The ever-deteriorating world ecological and social crisis have had a significant impact on human consciousness and, therefore, have also seriously impacted the accelerated growth rate that environmental tourism experienced in the past decade, to the point that it has meant a significant change in the habits and expectations of the world's tourists. Unfortunately, in the last decade we paid most of our attention to the ecological aspects, but very little to the implications of the impact that tourism has on the quality of life and on the sociological heritage of the communities that are directly affected by this industry. It is time to change the tourism tide to a more integral one, namely, a sustainable tourism.

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