According to the Barometric Report from the Ministry of Tourism, the number of hotel rooms in the Dominican Republic is 82,500, including 7,300 new rooms that were added in 2016. Another 2,300 are expected to be on the market by the end of 2017.
The report highlights that the new hotels that opened in 2016 are:
In Santo Domingo: Hotel Real Intercontinental, Santo Domingo;
In Punta Cana: Secrets Cap Cana Resort and Spa; Luxury Bahía Príncipe Fantasía Hotel; Hotel Riu República in Punta Cana; Nickelodeon Resort, Excellence El Carmen, Now Onix;
On the north coast:
Amanera in Playa Grande;
In San Pedro de Macorís:
Condo–Hotel Hemingway in San Pedro de Macorís.
The report added that 69 new tourist projects have been approved by the Tourist Development Board (Confotur) calling for an investment of US$1,482.1 million, and adding another 8,664 rooms to the national hotel inventory. The new rooms are expected to generate around 13,000 direct and indirect jobs, on top of those that are being created during the construction phase.
Most of the new hotel projects are located in the La Altagracia (Punta Cana) area with 40, ten in Santo Domingo, five in Samaná, four in San Pedro de Macorís, and two in each of Puerto Plata, La Vega, Peravia and El Seibo with one in María Trinidad Sánchez.
11 July 2017
