Coral by Hilton?s Simon Suarez, who is also president of the Caribbean Hotel Association, confirmed the company?s commitment to integration with the community. He mentioned that from the decoration of Coral by Hilton hotels that highlight the cultural identity of the region to major initiatives to provide a better living for those who live in the vicinity of the hotels are priority on the company?s agenda. He said that Coral by Hilton as a corporation with its hotel in Bayahibe has supported initiatives for the improvement of the area, stressing that all hotels in the area will be Green Globe by the end of the year, and expects also this year to announce the beach as the first Blue Flag beach in the DR and one of the first to achieve the privileged environmental category in the Caribbean. As part of the company philosophy, Suarez mentioned the chain?s participation in the relocating of 179 families living in slum conditions in the Padre Nuestro town near Bayahibe beach to a new neighborhood where they will have all basic infrastructure that they did enjoy before. This is not for philanthropic reasons. The Padre Nuestro community located in the National Park of the East land had been built on top of the important subterranean waterways that the town was polluting. Suarez said that Coral by Hilton strongly rejects the present initiative in Congress to remove from National Park of the East protection hundreds of thousands of square meters of the coastal areas for hotel development. ?We are more than committed to the community, we have put our heart and soul to it and do so with much enthusiasm,? he said.
Reyson Pimentel, marketing director, also highlighted that the company strongly endorses the international programs of ECPAT to end child prostitution at company hotels.