Green Link Hotel San Bosco

Since opening in 1986, Hotel San Bosco has been a model to be followed in the Arenal area. This family hotel with years of experience has always been attentive to the needs of the community of La Fortuna, which has motivated us to take and implement drastic measures to protect the environment and to push the people and businesses of this beautiful place to give us a hand with this urgent and obligatory end: The Green Conscience.

Reforestation and Green Zones

Hotel San Bosco, looks out for our planet; our beautiful, warm home, this motivation and the difficult situation that our planet is living today have made us more conscientious and caused us to take aggressive drastic measures for the health and good of our beloved planet and to avoid its deterioration.
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Bun-ca Organization, Energy Efficiency Program – Tourism Sector

Bun-ca is a non-governmental organization dedicated to promote the efficient usage of natural resources in order to generate sustainable energy, and thereby conserve the environment.
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Recycling Program (Single women’s group of Z13-San Bosco)

The Association of Single Women of Z13 is headed up by Ms. Luisa Varela and Ms. Isabel Gutiérrez, who have taken the courageous decision to clean up their community and surrounding communities by collecting and separating recyclable waste products in the La Fortuna area.
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Our products are certified

Hotel San Bosco only purchases from providers which have policies associated with the protection of the environment, - it is our obligation and our pride. We have also implemented the rational use of biodegradable products.
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Committed to the Earth Charter

The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.
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Arenal Volcano Foundation (FUNDEVOLCA)

Arenal Volcano Foundation is an entity created to raise funds and serve as a development platform, action and communication between government
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The Code of Conduct

All over the world, children are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation. A widespread global child sex trade has been established. Demand has increased, resulting in increased supply. The commercial sexual exploitation of children often occurs openly without government reaction or with governments preferring to "look the other way".

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the commerce of sex with children has been brought more and more into focus by various sectors of society all over the world. According to a UNICEF estimate in 1988, more than two million children in the world are annually forced into commercial sexual practices. This exploitation occurs in all countries, mainly in South-East Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. The Western world accounts for the greatest demand for child sex.

The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism (the Code) is an industry-driven multi-stakeholder initiative which seeks to increase protection of children from sex tourism. The companies - tour operators and their umbrella organizations, hotels, travel agents, airlines, etc. - which endorse the Code, commit themselves to implement the following measures:

1. To establish an ethical policy regarding commercial sexual exploitation of children.

2. To train the personnel in the country of origin and travel destinations.

3. To introduce a clause in contracts with suppliers, stating a common repudiation of commercial sexual exploitation of children.

4. To provide information to travellers by means of catalogues, brochures, in-flight films, ticket-slips, home pages, etc.

5. To provide information to local "key persons" at the destinations.

6. To report annually.

The Code is currently implemented globally by over 240 tour operators, hotels, travel agents and their associations, tourism workers' unions from 21 countries in Europe, Asia, North America, Central and Latin America. The number of tourists impacted by the Code is estimated to reach over 30 million per year, travelling to destinations in over 16 countries worldwide. The Code was recognized in December 2003 by British Airways with a Tourism for Tomorrow Award in the Large Scale Tourism category.

The Code is acknowledged by UNICEF and the World Tourism Organization as the primary international tool for the prevention and combating of child sex tourism by the travel and tourism, and Hotel San Bosco is one of hotels around the world, that are committed to stop the sexual tourism.