2001 Travel News Archive – Page 14

On occasion of its Annual Trade Show and Exhibition held last weekend in Santo Domingo, the Hotel & Restaurant Association (Asonahores) released its 2000 Statistical Bulletin. It shows that 2,972,000 travellers visited the DR in 2000. Ramon Prieto, president of Asonahores, said that US travel to the DR was up 25.9% from 1999, European travel …

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Aerodom, the company that is building the new El Catey airport to service northeastern travel destinations and cities, says the new Samana airport will be ready by July 2003. It will serve those travelling to Samana, Maria Trinidad Sanchez (Rio San Juan, Cabrera, Abreu, Nagua), and Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris). The El Catey airport …

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The Dominican Republic will host the XIth World Youth Female Volleyball Championship starting tomorrow, 1 September through the 9th. The event will take place at the Palacio de los Deportes in Santo Domingo (Virgilio Travieso Soto) and Santiago (Oscar Gobaira). Here for the event are the world’s best from these regions: Europe: Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Poland, …

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Frank Rainieri of the Punta Cana Group told Listin Diaro that the traditional low government investment in tourism is one of the reasons for the low growth of the sector this year. He said the government does not invest even 1% of what the industry produces for the country. He advocated that the government invest …

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