Archive for April 5th, 2008
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Top hotelier touts new luxury hotels in Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo.- The president of the National Hotels and Restaurants Association (ASONAHORES) praised the construction of a new generation of luxury hotels in Dominican Republic such as chains NH Hotels, Ritz-Carlton, Westin and Fairmont.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Dominican lawmakers reject proposed tourism entity’s sweeping powers
SANTO DOMINGO.- The bill which creates the National Tourism Development Institute (Indetur) has met resistance in the Chamber of Deputies which if approves it, would give the new entity sweeping powers to propose the “tourism poles,” including the Executive Branch decree for them.
It would give wide powers to the Tourism Minister, who would preside the […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Hoteliers defend bill would revamp Dominican tourism industry
SANTO DOMINGO.- National Hotels and Restaurants Association president Luis Lopez yesterday defended the bill which creates the National Tourism Development Institute (Indetur), whereas Tourism minister Felix Jiménez (Felucho) didn’t comment on the piece that would grant sweeping powers to that government agency’s chief.
But Dominican Municipalities Federation president Fausto Ruiz said he’s concerned the initiative could […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Viva launches Viva Residence in several Dominican resorts
Santo Domingo. - The chain Viva Resorts launched last night its “Viva Residence” product aimed at the residential tourism market, to start in Playa Dorada, Puerto Plata and Las Terrenas, Samaná.
The real estate development will include Mexico, Bahamas and Brazil and will include Bayahibe, La Altagracia, in the country’s coast east
The architect Antonio Imbert designed […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Secluded Dominican region is an ecotourism pot-of-gold
PEDERNALES, Dominican Republic.- The otherwise best-kept secret of the Dominican Republic yearns to become a household word, as its 89 kilometers of beaches with barely 200 basic hotel rooms makes the Pedernales peninsula a most attractive region for investors seeking future potential and for adventurers after the unspoiled.
“No high-density tourism for us,” says the ex […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Second largest Dominican city to get Delta flights daily
Santo Domingo.- Delta Airlines continues to expand in the Caribbean with a new nonstop daily service from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Santiago (north), starting in December.
Santiago is one of the Dominican Republic’s main cultural and educative centers and industrial zones, which produces rum, leather and textiles.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Caribbean Tourism Bolsa cites benefits for Dominican industry
SANTO DOMINGO.- One of the Caribbean Tourism Bolsa’s (BTC) greatest accomplishments has been the opening of air lines, especially charter flights from Ecuador and Mexico, and the conquest of nontraditional or chance tourists for the country.
BTC president Luis Felipe Aquino yesterday said more than 19,000 tourists visit from Ecuador, despite the lack of direct flights […]
