Steve Case’s newest hospitality venture debuted in April on a Costa Rican peninsula that his funding agency has owned for almost 20 years. The Waldorf Astoria Costa Rica at Punta Cacique represents extra than simply one other luxurious resort.
The AOL co-founder bought the 600-acre Punta Cacique in 2006 via Revolution Locations, his hospitality funding arm. After weathering the 2008 monetary disaster and years of planning, Case has opened a resort that he hopes encourages company to enterprise past its borders into native Costa Rican communities.
It is a part of Case’s broader imaginative and prescient for journey as the manager chairman of Unique Resorts and the proprietor of a number of inns worldwide. “Once I first visited Costa Rica, which is over 20 years in the past, it sort of felt like Hawaii once I was rising up 50 or 60 years in the past,” Case stated. “It was simply pivoting from farming to tourism.”
Hear Steve Case, head of Revolution Locations and chairman of Unique Resorts, converse on stage in September at Skift World Discussion board in New York.
Born in Honolulu simply earlier than the state’s admission to the Union in 1959, Case witnessed the islands evolve from an agricultural financial system to a tourism powerhouse. The important thing, he argues, was creating vibrant locations.
“What I feel folks love about going to Hawaii is that they enterprise out of the resort to journey, drive across the island, and cease at some native restaurant,” Case explains. “They use a resort as form of a launch p
