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- c)Promote and stimulate any commercial, industrial, transport, sports, artistic, agrotourism, or cultural activities that seek to attract tourism, providing facilities and entertainment or that make the country known in its various aspects, especially folkloric; ( ... )
- j)Grant the tourism declaration to tourism companies and activities. The requirements for the granting of this declaration shall take into account the particular conditions of each tourist activity and the priority objective of supporting micro, small, and medium-sized tourism enterprises.
The ICT shall define differentiated requirements to grant the tourism declaration to organizations dedicated to rural tourism activities, in accordance with Law 8724, Promotion of Community Rural Tourism, of July 17, 2009, and to micro and small enterprises dedicated to ecotourism and agrotourism activities, such as tourist lodging, food services, thematic tourist activities, specialized travel agencies, small-scale tourist cabotage, and small-scale tourist fishing, among others, in order to promote the participation in the benefits of sustainable tourism development for the communities and regions of the country with lower levels of social development. Requirements to protect the life and safety of tourists must be met.
- k)Promote, in coordination with the National System of Conservation Areas (Sinac) and the Institute of Rural Development (lnder), plans and programs for the development of ecotourism, agrotourism, and rural tourism activities for the benefit of the communities that live in the areas adjacent to and in the influence zone of protected wild areas.
The Institute must fully comply with the pertinent provisions issued by the country's municipalities or the National Institute of Housing and Urban Planning, as long as it is not expressly excepted from them in this law or in subsequent ones.
TRANSITORY PROVISION I- The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) must update, within a period of twelve months, the regulations related to what is stipulated in this law in its Chapter III of Reforms, Article 9 and 12, regarding subsections c) and j) of Article 5 of Law 1917, Organic Law of the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), of July 30, 1955, and Article 5 of Law 8724, Promotion of Community Rural Tourism, of July 17, 2009, so that they are consistent with what is amended in this regulation.
TRANSITORY PROVISION II- Once this law is approved, the Executive Branch shall have a period of up to twelve months to regulate it.
It shall be effective upon its publication.
Given at the Presidency of the Republic, San José, on the nineteenth day of the month of November of the year two thousand twenty-five.
LET IT BE EXECUTED AND PUBLISHED.