I know the hotel market in Santo Domingo reasonably well, and I'm pretty certain that a lot of hotels are having a very rough time. This week, Valentines week, normally very busy, there are five-star hotels like Catalonia selling for US$ 80 for an ocean-view room with breakfast included. I thought this was only a Santo Domingo thing, but yesterday I was talking to a friend who works in Punta Cana airport. He gets monthly stats on visitor numbers and was saying that this season is terrible so far. Flights are arriving half-empty it seems, with passenger numbers considerably down from latin American countries. His take on the situation is that the only airlines which are filling planes and the hotels which are filling rooms are doing so at much lower prices than last year and everyone seems to be struggling.
I'm just interested in hearing other people's opinions on how this season is going. Particularly interested in comments from people who are "in the know" and work in the industry.
I'm just interested in hearing other people's opinions on how this season is going. Particularly interested in comments from people who are "in the know" and work in the industry.