exactly.
huge Private Properties,
no curfew forprivate properties.
like here the huge Punta Cana Resort&Club or Cap Cana, each a good 30.000 acres of size to watch the skies from the beach at any time of day or night.
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Is tourism back?
huge Private Properties,
no curfew forprivate properties.
like here the huge Punta Cana Resort&Club or Cap Cana, each a good 30.000 acres of size to watch the skies from the beach at any time of day or night.
exactly.
Curfew means to stay on private property and not sweep public streets.
Anyone who is American you mean. There are several billion people in the world who aren't American and we have lists of countries we can travel to, which don't include DR. For Brits for example, we can travel to anywhere in the Caribbean apart from DR.
I think the official figure is 10% occupancy in the AI's in July, I was told that anyway. They have to have at least 50% occupancy to be sustainable, the AI model cannot work unless they get to this level.
you mean the UK recommends their Citizens not to travel to DR, but it is not prohibited.
while very few, we have british guests in Punta Cana.
they arrive via Spain, France and Switzerland for example.
For Brits we are advised against all non-essential travel to DR, so nobody would have travel insurance and very limited help available from the Embassy if they run into trouble. And a mandatory 14 day quarantine on return to the UK. Plus now the new requirement for a PCR test on arrival. None of which applies to other countries in the Caribbean.
which, in my eyes, make's the DR the better place,
as others are open without any such infection check.
the world needs urgently better testing processes, to check for covid19 fast AND reliable,
because waiting for a vaccine or such kinda magic will have runined the world's economies long before such could have been developed,
if such vaccine ever will be found in the first place.
Life has to go on NOW,
Economies have to be brought back on track NOW,
so we have to focus on Living With the Virus,
instead of making useless decisions about who is infected more or less country wise.
Hard Rock last weekend was close to 50%. Not crowded at all and no real long waits for food. It was kinda perfect.
From the research I did, there's only Jack Tar open in Playa Dorada at the moment. Do you know different? The others are scheduled to open in November.
Right, Blue Jack Tar and Riviera Azul are open. But both have condos and residents, so they have to allow access. There are people staying at the BJT hotel but I don't know the occupancy. and Green Jack restaurant is open.
The AI's have to be hurting as to coming up with a plan. It's got to be near impossible for an AI to start back up with just a trickle of people coming in. And I doubt they even have a trickle right now.
I'm in Sosua and it's pretty quiet. Flip flops always has some clientele but no wait. Down on the beach even the popular places have their waitstaff cut down from 6 to 2-3 staff total. I see very few tourists from Hispaniola down to the beach. One to three people total in the popular breakfast spots. Yea, it's quiet.
I've seen maybe a few gringos in as many days.
I've seen maybe a few gringos in as many days.
I cannot quite grasp what the global COVID-19 quarantine is all about. It isn't that dangerous. This is not the Black Death.
If we want to do extreme things to save lives, how about reducing the speed limit from 100 km/hour to 10 km/hour? That's about the speed which horse drawn wagons traveled for thousands of years. You'll save over a million lives each year.
We can say good bye to the year after year GDP growth this country has
been experiencing since the early 2000's at +5%. With all of their eggs in
one basket and such poor decisions being made, the damage they've done
to the tourism industry as a whole will last for many years. With no vaccine
in site this curfew may continue well into 2021..