King Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Leticia attended the inauguration of the Fitur travel show in Madrid, Spain and visited the Dominican Republic pavilion on occasion of the country being the year’s Fitur partner country.
The Dominican Republic is also the leading site for billions of euros in Spanish investment in the tourism industry in hotels, airlines and tour operation services. The Dominican Republic received 173,065 Spanish tourists in 2017, of the 5.4 million foreign tourist arrivals that year, said Kiara Font Bernard, director of the Dominican tourism office in Spain and Portugal.
The 39th Fitur was attended by over 250,000 travel professionals and around 10,500 companies this year at the trade show venue in Madrid, Spain. The event took place 23 to 27 January 2019 with the participation of 165 countries.
Tourism Minister Francisco Javier led the Dominican delegation to the event. During Fitur he announced that this year would be the take off for major tourism development in the prime beach area of Bahia de las Aguilas. He announced the government would call an international tender for the development of the area. At the event, Venezuelan investors, the Velutini group of Blue Mall-fame, announced they would be investing in the construction of 1,020 new rooms in the Playa Dorada, Puerto Plata area.
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Mitur
29 January 2019
