Sector

Services Sector

Talented by nature

In Costa Rica, the service sector stands out for highly qualified and bilingual human talent, combined with a strategic location. We offer a wide range of services in areas such as education, digital animation, video games, outsourcing, and more.

  • 44

    Exporting companies in the sector

    Source: PROCOMER. Data from January to December, 2023. Operating under the Free Trade Zone regime.

  • $1.180

    Millions amount exported

    Source: PROCOMER. Data from January to December, 2023. Excludes the food industry sector.

  • 1%

    Participation in GDP

    Source: BCCR, 2023. Excludes travel data.

Quality services

Costa Rican services companies offer diversity, quality, and excellence, qualities that distinguish their exportable offer.

Architecture, design and engineering

We specialize in design, engineering and construction, offering services for projects such as office buildings, industrial and commercial structures, warehouses, hotels, condominiums and tourism projects. We also perform studies of topography, hydrology, seismic risk, environmental impact and consulting in architecture and engineering.

Medical tourism

Costa Rica is positioned as an outstanding medical destination worldwide, thanks to the quality of our services and competitive costs. We offer treatments in various specialties such as dentistry, cardiology, ophthalmology, cosmetic, reconstructive, bariatric surgeries and more.

Information and communication technology

We provide solutions in web applications and services, outsourcing and telecommunications. Our services cover sectors such as finance, commerce, health, tourism, construction, education and more, including high availability data centers and business intelligence development.

Audiovisual

We offer services for international film, television, commercial and reality TV productions. In addition to on-demand outsourcing services, from stock content, to project development, production and post-production of video and audio.

Digital Animation

Costa Rica has high-level 2D and 3D digital animation professionals with years of experience in all phases of production offering services such as: compositing, character and environment design, asset and animatics creation, rigging, texturing, motion graphics, product rendering, VFX and much more.

Video games

Costa Rica offers complete game development services, from initial conception to launch: development, production, support, artistic production (concept art, modeling and texturing of characters and environments, rigging, animation, UX/UI), porting and equipment optimization and expansion.

Education

We are a country with democratic stability which has allowed the development of education. We maintain partnerships with universities around the world, and we offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, technical degrees, internships, student and teacher mobility, international certifications, COIL, summer programs, faculty-led, joint degrees, Spanish as a second language, among others.

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