Costa Rica tana ba da tafiye-tafiye gabaɗaya a cikin mahallin zamantakewa da muhalli

"Muna da abubuwa da yawa fiye da rana da rairayin bakin teku," in ji sanarwar alfahari ta William Rodríguez, ministan yawon shakatawa na Costa Rica, yana mai ba da sanarwar cewa ƙasarsa, ba kamar yawancin jihohin Caribbean ba, ta sake samun lambobin baƙo na pre-coronavirus. A shekarar 2022 sun kai miliyan 2.35, kuma bisa shirin shekara biyar masu zuwa, wannan adadi zai karu zuwa miliyan 3.8 nan da shekarar 2027, yayin da ba za a yi kasa a gwiwa ba wajen yin barazana ga martabar kasar a matsayin misali mai dorewa a duniya. Jamus, mai 80,000 (2022) ita ce mafi mahimmancin tushen masu yawon bude ido a Turai don Costa Rica, a gaban Burtaniya da Faransa.

"Dorewa ta fara da ilimi a makarantu", in ji Rodríguez. Sama da shekaru 70 da suka gabata Costa Rica ta wargaza sojojinta kuma yanzu tana kashe albarkatun kasafi da ba a buƙata don tallafawa ilimi da lafiya. Tana tsakanin Tekun Atlantika da Pasifik, da kuma tsakanin Nicaragua da Panama, tsawon shekaru da yawa kasar tana mai da hankali kan dorewa, kuma a yanzu ta cika kashi 99 na makamashin da take bukata daga albarkatun da ake sabunta su. Rodríguez ya nuna cewa yawon shakatawa yana samar da ayyuka 210,000 kai tsaye, kuma kusan 400,000 a kaikaice. A halin yanzu a lardin Guanacaste da ke arewa maso yammacin kasar, wanda ya shahara da masu ziyara daga Amurka, an shirya wasu sabbin otal-otal da suka hada da otal-otal na alfarma. Duk da haka, wannan ba ya haifar da mummunar tasiri ga tsarin otel din, wanda "kashi 87 cikin XNUMX ya ƙunshi ƙananan kamfanoni, ƙananan ƙananan da kuma matsakaicin girma".

Shirin na shekaru biyar bai samar da adadin yawan masu yawon bude ido ba. A bisa ka'ida ka'idar ita ce kasar ba za ta iya daukar 'yan yawon bude ido fiye da yadda take da mazauna ba. "Wannan zai kusan kusan miliyan biyar, amma ba ma son tura iyakoki." A cikin bincike na ƙarshe bai dogara da yanayin tattalin arziki ba amma ƙari akan dorewar muhalli da zamantakewa. Idan aka kwatanta da sauran ƙasashe a cikin Caribbean, a Costa Rica an fi ba da fifiko kan yawon shakatawa na cikin gida da na ɗaiɗaikun mutane, wanda ministar ta ƙiyasta kashi 35 cikin ɗari na kasuwannin gabaɗaya. Koyaya, bayanin martabar baƙo ya canza: tun bayan barkewar cutar sankarau, yawancin matasa suna zuwa, kuma suna sha'awar wasanni da kasada, "wanda suke son jin daɗin ƙungiyoyi".