Arturo Villanueva said that a large number of big hotels in the DR have not had to suffer through the present electricity crisis. The executive vice president of the National Hotel Association said that many of these hotels are on independent electricity production circuits. Major resorts in La Romana and La Altagracia provinces (Bayahibe, Dominicus, Casa de Campo, Punta Cana-Bavaro) as well as Las Terrenas (Samana) and Playa Dorada (Puerto Plata) have also escaped the crisis. The private generating companies sell the hotels energy at lower prices than the newly privatized companies are selling. (10 February 2000)
