President Danilo Medina received the award for Tourist Personality of the Year 2013 in recognition to his efforts to strengthen tourism in the country and his leadership.
The award was presented by Osvaldo Soriano, president of the Dominican Association of Tourist Press (Adompretur) at the Presidential Palace yesterday, 14 July 2014. Adompretur has 300 tourism and travel writer members that voted for the President during their annual meeting.
Osvaldo Soriano highlighted efforts of President Medina to promote tourism development including new investments, the increased budget for the Ministry of Tourism and the construction of important roads to foster the development of tourist areas.
In addition to Soriano, also present at the ceremony was the organization’s vice president, Luis Jose Chavez; the secretary general Karina Lopez; the director of institutional affairs, Patricia Reynoso; the director of the award panel, Manuel Quiroz; the past president Manuel Quiterio Cedeno and Alexis Moises, the meeting coordinator.
Read more in Spanish: http://presidencia.gob.do/comunicados/el-presidente-danilo-medina-personaje-tur%C3%ADstico-del-a%C3%B1o-de-la-adompretur