2001 Travel News Archive – Page 47

The Washington Post published an article on baseball and how it is part of Dominican culture in its Sunday, 11 March travel section. To prepare the article, the author visited several Dominican stadiums and Major League training centers during the past winter ball season. The article is online at http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33019-2001Mar7.html (12 March 2001)

The government’s privatization commission, Comision de Reforma de la Empresa Publica is inviting interested parties to retrieve standard tender terms and general conditions of contract for the Compañia Dominicana de Aviación (CDA), the state airline. The tender terms will be available as of 14 March at the offices of the CREP that are located at …

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The Tourism School of the Universidad APEC recently announced it has reached an agreement with the Business School of Gran Canaria, Spain to start a graduate degree program in management of hotel and tourism business this April 2001. The MBA is a yearlong program. (9 March 2001)

El Siglo reports that President Hipolito Mejia met recently with a commission from Sosua to discuss how the government could help boost that community, probably the oldest tourism destination in the DR. Spokesmen for Sosua were Herman Strauss, president of the Compañia Industrial Lechera (Productos Sosua); William Kirkman, of Sea Horse Ranch residential community, Mayor …

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The Ministry of Tourism announced that the float "Naturaleza Viva de Bonao" won the grand prize of the Sunday, 4 March Carnival Parade. Runner ups were "Fantasia Marina" and Fantasia de Rio de Janeiro from the province of Santiago. The Ministry said it invested RD$5 million in the successful event that took place on the …

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Francisco Jimenez Reyes (PRD-Baoruco) says it is unlikely the Senate will vote favorably on the bill sent by President Hipolito Mejia regarding the use of National Park of the East land for hotel development. Ecologists, newspaper editorial writers, the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, and the Hotel Association of Bayahibe have rejected the bill. Jimenez …

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