The Osa Peninsula, along the southern Pacific coast, has always been one of Costa Rica’s most isolated and least developed locations. I have visited there a few times and it was always hard to get to but definitely remote and stunning landscapes. The area's remoteness and lack of construction has helped preserve one of the planet's most diverse reserves of flora and fauna.
Currently plans are arising for more hotels, a marina and an international airport in Sierpe. The locals who prefer the isolation of the area are concerned about all the development but many locals are ready for more opportunities and growth of the area.
I believe it is one of the last truly preserved area of Costa Rica. I think a new airport will bring rise to some large all inclusive resorts but I don’t think it will change the area into another Guanacaste. Guanacaste was popular and then became a boom town when real estate and the economy was soaring, which is when the new airport went in there. Now Guanacaste has its major resorts like the four seasons but the rest of the smaller developments and towns are more like ghost towns. Guanacaste investments have put some major investment firms in San Jose on the verge of bankruptcy. I think the new airport in the south, a less popular and traveled area and in a turbulent economy, will be a slow and difficult start much different then what Guanacaste experienced. I do think in the long run it will bring benefits to the area and Costa Rica although the Central Pacific will remain the most “happening” and moving city’s on the Pacific coast.
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