2000 Travel News Archive – Page 40

Ministry of Public Works announced a ban on the transiting of trucks on highways and roads from Thursday, 20 April through 24 April as of 6 am. The ban is issued given the peak bus and vehicle traffic that takes place over the Easter holiday, the peak domestic vacation time. (19 April 2000)

The Ministry of Tourism has banned the use of jet ski, wave runners and motorized boats, horses, motorcycles, motor vehicles and any equipment that could endanger the safety of visitors to the most popular Dominican beaches. Motorized sports are off limits in major beach areas from Wednesday, 19 April at 6 am to Monday, 24 …

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Luís Felipe Aquino, organizer of the Bolsa Turistica del Caribe, announced the travel trade show will take place at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel convention hall 3-6 May. The show in its fourth year is expected to attract 2,000 travel agents, hotels and allied businesses. This year there will be presentations on investing in tourism and …

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The "second stage" of a project to provide illumination to SD’s colonial sector has bogged down amidst bureaucratic finger-pointing as well as allegations of technical ineptitude and embezzlement of funds. El Siglo quotes the representative of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (ACE), Saturnino Cisneros, saying that the task of installing colonial-style electrified lanterns through …

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The Civil Defense Agency has announced the closing of 71 beaches and vacation sites nationwide for safety reasons. These vacation sites or beaches are declared off limits because the authorities feel they cannot handle large numbers of visitors. In alphabetic order, the off-limits spots are: Azua: El Caney Barahona: Los Patos Elías Piña: El Cuero, …

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