2000 Travel News Archive – Page 41

The RD has tripled it’s the increase in tourist arrivals during the first quarter of the year. According to Minister of Tourism, Felix Jimenez, January, February and March have witnessed a 25% increase over the same period last year. Early 1999 tourism fell sharply in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Georges the …

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This morning, blazoned across a full page color picture of SD’s Quisqueya Stadium, the sports section of Hoy used two-inch red type to declare "Approved: RD will be site of big league opening." But on page two it recounted how U.S. Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig, just fell short of offering a guarantee. Responding to insistent …

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The sister of Moroccan King Mohamed IV arrived Sunday on a "private visit." Princess Lala Hasna, accompanied by her daughter but without official entourage, dismounted from a private jet at La Romana’s Punta Aguila Airfield, and was sped away in a late model Lexus to an undisclosed location in the luxurious Casa de Campo resort. …

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Four Dominican international airports, including the two of most traffic, are now under the private management of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom). Aerodom is a consortium made up by majority shareholder DR-based Operaciones Aeroportuarias del Caribe (Dominican Republic), Ogden Corporation (United States), YVR Airport Services (Canada) and Impregilio (Italy). Ogden Corporation is the world’s largest …

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District Attorney Francisco Domínguez and Drug Control Department agents participated in a Friday night blitz of three discotheques frequented by middle class and upper middle class clientele. Press reports named Jubilee at the Jaragua, and mentioned another was located in a Winston Churchill mall. The blitz was held on occasion of April being the month …

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