2000 Travel News Archive – Page 25

President appointed Pedro Antonio Peralta González director of the Corporación de Fomento de la Industria Hotelera y Desarrollo del Turismo (Corphotel), the government institution in charge of state-owned hotels. President Mejía also appointed Magaly Josefina Gonell Villanueva as the new director of the Tourism office in Montreal, Canada. Hector Antonio Lizardo Jorge was appointed chief …

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Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas told El Siglo newspaper that the construction of the Aeropuerto International La Isabela in northern Santo Domingo will be postponed until a private partner is found to take up the project. The project was intended to be operational in April 2000, but at the end the Fernández government abandoned …

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Arturo Villanueva, executive vice president of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, said that the fact that Dominican vacation packages are pegged to the US$ is working against Dominican hotels this year. With the Euro dropping in value to the US dollar, Dominican holidays are becoming more expensive for Europeans. Villanueva pointed out that the …

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Hurricane Debby is making its way through the Caribbean, and gusts and heavy rains should affect the North Coast (primarily Samana) of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The DR1 has prepared a special hurricane page at http://www.dr1.com/daily/hurricane001.shtml with updates being posted, as they become available. The best advice for those with travel plans to the …

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Former Argentinean President, Carlos Saul Menem (1989-99), and his girl friend model and TV producer Cecilia Bolocco vacationed in Casa de Campo last week, according to a report in the Listin Diario. They spent time at the Minitas beach, dining and shopping at Altos de Chavón. 70-year old Menem is 35 years older than Bolocco, …

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