President Danilo Medina recently announced that Colombian tourists will no longer need visas to travel to the Dominican Republic and may do so with the purchase of a tourist card. At the Fitur travel show in Madrid, it was announced that the Colombian travel company, ON Vacation would purchase half of the shares in the 411-room Celuisma resort in Playa Dorada for US$15 million. Company representative Carlos Londono forecast a major increase in Colombian tourism to the Dominican Republic in 2015. A total of 61,421 Colombians visited in 2014.
ON Vacation is reported to move around 2,000 charter flights a year. With the purchase, the company will be adding Puerto Plata to its portfolio of destinations that already includes Cancun, Mexico and Panama.
http://www.listindiario.com/economia-and-negocios/2015/2/1/354686/Crecen-un-27-las-reservas-hechas-por-Tour-Operadoresgoo
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