Smile Confident

For the director of NYA Hotel, sustainability is more than a commitment—it's a legacy. As the leader of conservation eff orts at the Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Romelia in Montezuma, she continues a family tradition of protecting Costa Rica’s natural treasures....

Montezuma is a coastal corner on the Nicoya Peninsula that surprises with its unique energy. Though small in size, it holds immense natural, cultural, and emotional richness. This isn’t a mass tourism destination—it's a place you experience slowly, barefoot and with...

In a world that seems to move faster every day, slow tourism is emerging as a different way to travel: more mindful, more human, more real. It’s not about visiting places, but inhabiting them for a while. About seeing rather than photographing. Connecting instead of...