Janick Wagemans

Premio DMC has been creating high-quality meetings and incentive trips in Costa Rica for more than 20 years. Here Janick Wagemans, the company’s business unit manager, shares five things she and the rest of the Premio team are looking forward to sharing with planners when the land of pure living reopens.

All photos are courtesy of Premio DMC.

Genuine Costa Rican hospitality and, of course, the country’s Pura Vida lifestyle: With an economy and culture built on sustainability, education and community, Costa Rica consistently ranks as one of the happiest countries in the world. Pura vida, a widely-used multipurpose phrase that simply translates to pure living, embodies the country’s easy-going, friendly spirit.

Coffee time! Costa Rica’s well-balanced coffee is regarded as some of the best in the world. Try a cup with some black beans and rice at breakfast or with arroz con leche for dessert. Plantation tours give groups the opportunity to learn about its cultivation and sample a blend or two. And, these delicious beans (along with a mug) make great gifts for meeting attendees and incentive travel participants.

The renovations of the two Marriott properties—the Costa Rica Marriott San Jose and Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort on the central Pacific Coast—with designs created to evoke the destination and the local nature in every detail.

Costa Rica’s amazing wildlife: While it’s a small country, Costa Rica has a mighty abundance of birds, reptiles and other animals including sloths (two- and three-toed!), white face monkeys, toucans, hummingbirds, iguanas, butterflies, howler monkeys, ocelots, and more.

The wide range of accommodation options (resorts, eco-lodges, boutique hotels, etc.) and carefully-designed experiences for individual incentives available in Costa Rica. You can give top performers the power to choose a trip based on their travel style—adventure, nature, food and wine, wellbeing or pure relaxation. You name it.

Premio DMC specializes in developing and delivering innovative, quality programs for incentives, meetings and events in Costa Rica. It is represented in Canada by Select Group Marketing (SGM).