2001 Travel News Archive – Page 22

Canada, Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic will compete starting today for two available berths in the World Volleyball Cup to be held in 2002 World Championship in Germany. The top two teams of the four team round robin will gain the berths. The games will be played at the Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan …

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Samana gets its own sailing competition this weekend, 13-15 July, when Dominican and visiting competitors gather for the Windsurf & Hobie Cat Regatta Portillo 2001 organized by the Dominican Association of Windsurfing. Portillo Resort in Las Terrenas will be the site of the event. Pupo Alorda, president of the Dominican Association of Windsurf said that …

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The Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras are proposing that the World Trade Organization apply rules on competition to aviation services, as part of their proposal for an Annex on Tourism Services to the WTO’s services agreement, known as GATS. Dominican ambassador Federico Cuello Camilo, president of the Working Group on Liberalization of Tourism of …

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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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President Hipolito Mejia announced the construction of the Sanate Hydroelectric Dam in La Altagracia province. The dam will supply potable water, irrigation and electrical power to the province. It will be built at an estimated cost of RD$2,832 million (approx. US$170 million). The dam will be built where Mana and Sanate rivers meet. The construction …

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