1996 Travel News ArchiveTravel

Asonahores’ proposes new strategy for tourist industry

The National Hotel & Restaurant Association of the Dominican Republic presented on Thursday, 9 May, at the Hotel Santo Domingo its “Proposal for a Concerted Strategy for National Tourism Development,” effectively, proposed guidelines for the re-launching of the tourism industry in the country. Tourism specialists from the contending political parties in the forthcoming election were …
1996 Travel News ArchiveTravel

Planned return of tourism to Haiti

Haiti is on its way back onto the tourism scene, concluded executives of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) and a business delegation from the Caribbean/Latin American Action (C/LAA) that visited late last month. The delegation, which included Michael Youngman, director of marketing for the CTO, John Bell, executive vice president …
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D.R. deporting Haitians

The Dominican Republic has deported at least two ex-officials of the Haitian government of General Raoul Cedras (1991-1994). The ex-chief of police of the Cedras government, Michel Francois, and the former mayor of Port-Au-Prince, Franc Romain, were both given political asylum in Honduras. The deportations come after rumors of a plot among former officials of …