2001 Travel News Archive – Page 21

The National Strength Athletics Association chose Santo Domingo for the Latin American stop of the 2001 World Strongman Competition Tour. Some of the world’s strongest men are on tour of 18 cities in the US, Europe and Asia as well Santo Domingo. The men will compete Saturday, 28 July and Sunday, 29 July at the …

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The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Fourth National Tourism Convention. The meetings will be held 28 November to 2 December. Land use planning, marketing, investment opportunities, infrastructure solutions and other matters will be discussed. Angel Miolan is the president of the convention. (19 July 2001)

Trans Dominicana de Desarrollo announced a US$1,400 million investment over a seven-year period in the northwestern provinces of Monte Cristi and Dajabon. The projects include the construction of a container ship and cargo freight port in Manzanillo, 1,000 hotel rooms and a 400-slip full service marina, industrial free trade zone, ecological park, airport, urban development …

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The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Merengue Festival. The event will take place 18-29 July. The inaugural event is set for Wednesday, 18 at the Palacio Bellas Artes at 8 pm. That evening, several “perico ripiao” music groups will play in the west gardens of the Palacio Bellas Artes. Following that event, …

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The National Theater and the Opera de las Americas company announced the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” a tale of love and betrayal, in August at the National Theater. Foreign and international talent will come together to tell the tale of a humpbacked jester, his innocent daughter, a lascivious nobleman, a hired assassin and a …

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President Hipolito Mejia met with Mikhail Gorbachev at the Casa de Campo villa of Maximo Pellerano, president of Omnimedia, publisher of Diario Libre, a free distribution newspaper. The press was not given access to the gathering, but reportedly they talked for about an hour. Gorbachev spoke in Russian, was translated into English, and then into …

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