1996 Travel News Archive – Page 14

The government is dredging the principal ports of the country, including those at Haina, and the tourist ports of Puerto Plata and Santo Domingo. The Navy has been entrusted with the work that requires the renovation of two old dredgers and the purchase of a new one. Vice Admiral Geraldo Santana Solano, chief of the …

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A group of private pilots carried out a promotional fly-in to the Maria Montez International Airport at Barahona last Saturday, 11 May, departing in the early morning from the Aeropuerto International de Herrera in Santo Domingo. The group was organized by the Aeroclub Dominicano to promote the development of tourism in the south. Aircraft owners …

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The Colombian airline Ases is interested in covering the route Bogota-Puerto Plata-Santo Domingo-Bogota using a B727-200. Mr. Angel S. García Alecón, representing the Ministry of Tourism, and representatives of the Asociación de Hoteles y Restaurantes de Sosua y Cabarete, the management of the Puerto Plata International Airport and other tourist industry executives, met with the …

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The National Hotels & Restaurants Association (Asonahores) held a working session last Thursday, 9 May at the Hotel Santo Domingo to formally present to the principal political parties its Guidelines for a Concerted Proposal for Sustaininable Tourist Development. Asonahores executives met with Jacinto Peynado, Dr Peña Gómez, and Dr Leonel Fernández. At the event, it …

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Santo Domingo should be a priority in the plan of the next tourist authorities. Asonahores considers that the new government should support private sector efforts to convert the city, in a short period of time, into an attractive venue for conventions, fairs, congresses and sporting events. The position was supported by the Association of Hotels …

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President Joaquín Balaguer officially opened the Barahona International Airport on Saturday, 27 April. The new Maria Montez International Airport is planned to bring an onset of investors to the region, one of the country’s prime ecotourism areas, which also contains some of its most panoramic scenery. During the opening ceremony the president was accompanied by …

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APA International has signed an agreement with British West Indian Airlines (BWIA) that will permit the Dominican airline to use its aircraft. BWIA is based in Trinidad & Tobago and will resume the flights to Miami. BWIA has it own regular flights to Miami, New York, Toronto, between the Antilles, and to Europe. APA’s president, …

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An Airbus A-310 of Air Ambar scheduled to fly to Berlin with 250 German tourists on board did not depart from Puerto Plata last Friday, 26 April because the Dominican authorities did not authorize the flight, according to the German Department of Tourism. The reasons for the refusal of the flight authorization were not given. …

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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 …

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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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