Considered home for many visionary innovators, Costa Rica is a vibrant country, surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, under a tropical blue sky, that encloses an exciting and promising startup ecosystems in the region, as well as for its capital city, San José that has become an axis for new ideas and adventures.

This year, Costa Rica ranked 54th out of 138 countries evaluated in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report, ranking fourth in Latin America and second in Central America, as well as qualifying as the most competitive country in the region, followed by Panama and Mexico. Making the country leader in categories like innovation and business sophistication and health and primary education with a score of 6.2 out of 7 in report.

As for this, Staff Relocation Services just opened offices in Costa Rica on October 1st, to enhance relocation and migration operations in the Central America region. This location was selected because of its nearness to the assignees and the appropriate authorities.

Offices in the country will coordinate the whole region, as well as assisting expatriates and clients in agriculture, food, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. Costa Rica has become a cultural center attracting a lot of talented people, motivating entrepreneurs to develop projects thanks to government incentives, creating businesses and eco-businesses in the country.

Costa Rica has been working hard to prepare the best conditions for the future, from creating groundbreaking institutions like free healthcare and labor securities in 1940, abolishing its army in 1948, having an education system located among the top 35 in the world in 2016, to committing in 2009 to become the first carbon-neutral nation worldwide by 2021.