The ISA scheduled the date of the Billabong 2009 World Surfing Games in Playa Hermosa one week after the completion of next year¹s ASP U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California, a tournament attended by hundreds of the top surfers in the world.

This way, the competitors can finish at the U.S. Open and then travel to Costa Rica. The geographic location of Costa Rica makes it an easy-to-reach destination for many delegations of the Americas to attend an international championship for the very first time the ISA for sometime now. Besides, this ratifies Costa Rica as one of the most wanted destinations to surf around the globe.

Costa Rica was favored among Brazil and South Africa, as well other hopeful nations that distinguished themselves with high quality world class surf.

Between the estimated 40 countries, their athletes and staffs, the ISA staff, the Federation of Surf, and other personnel necessary to carry out the Billabong ISA 2009 WSG, the considered 500 thousand people of Costa Rica and foreign visitors who will attend the event open the Condo rentals, restaurant like Los Amigos, and the tourism potential, will provide Jacó with more than $1 million in commerce.

Book your airline tickets and Hemosa beach house rentals ahead of time. You'll have over a week to enjoy the sun, the sand and the great warm waves of Costa Rica, one of the top 10 surf destinations worldwide.

It is a quick drive to Carara National Park, Manuel Antonio Park and acclaimed surf breaks of Jaco Beach, Hermosa beach are a few of the perfect places for sport fishermen, surfers, birders, wildlife enthusiasts and anyone in search of the good life, or "pura vida" as they call it here.