2008 Travel News ArchiveTravel

Targeting the rich

USA Today points out that Dominican all-inclusive hotels are going upscale but the US$150-US$230 daily rate package deals are still reasonable even in these financial free-fall days. In a report on all-inclusive vacations in Punta Cana, the reporter stresses that the everything-covered industry is wooing guests with new, over-the-top Shangri-Las courting resort sophisticates with Architectural …

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Leonel trusts G-20 plan

President Leonel Fernandez has told El Caribe reporters that he is confident about the financial market reforms agreed by the Group of 20 nations (G-20) and aimed at benefiting emerging economies and keeping the global economic crisis from getting worse. Fernandez said he believed that the financial crisis is the product of “a tired neo-liberal …

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DR works on easing business

The Dominican Republic has been named this year’s top small-island reformer in the “Doing Business in Small Island Developing States 2009” report published by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank. The Dominican Republic is, nevertheless, ranked 97th worldwide in the ease of doing business, meaning there is still lots of work to …

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