2003 Travel News Archive – Page 16

The Ministry of Public Works is promising to finish the majestic bridge under construction over the Higuamo River in San Pedro de Macor?s by this December, according to a report in Hoy newspaper. The 606-meter long bridge hangs 106 meters over the river and will enable travelers en route from La Romana to Santo Domingo …

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Dominican Latin Billboard Award winners Monchy and Alexandra will perform live on stage 16-18 May at the National Theater, and again on 23-25 May at the Gran Teatro Regional in Santiago. The popular duo recently received a double win for Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year for their work on “Confesiones… ” and for Tropical/Salsa Airplay …

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Dominican tenor Francisco Casanova will make his debut at the prestigious Scala de Milan theater on 13 May in a Verdi opera conducted by Riccardo Muti. Casanova will play the role of Jacopo Foscari in ?I Due Foscari? with Italian baritone Leo Nucci. The show will be broadcast live on RAI television and will be …

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Caribbean Tourism Bourse opens in mid-May at the Renaissance Jaragua Hotel & Casino. The gathering brings together international and local tourism experts for a full program of conferences, trade show, business meetings and networking. The Bourse is in its seventh year. Luis Felipe Aquino is the director of the event that will take place Tuesday, …

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It was all talk over the weekend in Samana. Would Shakira invest in a property in El Valle Beach? Had she done so already? The isolated and little visited beach is a smaller version of Playa Grande in Maria Trinidad Sanchez province, but it should measure at least one kilometer wide. The beach is framed …

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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has just released a comprehensive directory on hotel properties in the Dominican Republic, Directorio de Establecimientos de Alojamiento. For more information, contact Socrates Barinas Guerrero at the Central Bank. Tel. 221-9111 ext. 3115  Click here for more details

New Outlook, a lifestyle publication for the senior demographic that has a circulation of 450,000 across Canada in two languages will be running a travel article on the Dominican Republic in its fall issue. DR1 is assisting the magazine with its photographs. The magazine is published by Redwood Custom Communications, a company that produces custom …

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The Diario Libre announced that beginning next Thursday 1 May there will be a direct ferry service between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo. Ferries del Caribe told reporters from Diario Libre that they had invested US$6.5 million in a new vessel, the M/S Caribbean Express, which has 365 cabins and will cover the …

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Two new tourism bodies have been established, President Hip?lito Mej?a announced at the closure of the IV National Tourism Convention last night. The Superior Tourism Committee and the National Tourism Promotion Office will bring together private and public sector people in the tourist industry, with the aim of promoting the Dominican tourism sector. Mej?a declared …

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Belen G?mez, of Occidental Hoteles Hotel Embajador, is the new president of the Santo Domingo Hotel Association (2003-2005). She is joined by Jose Corletto (Hotel Plaza), Kurt Schamper (Hotel Santo Domingo-Hispaniola), Aura Dominguez (Hodelpa), Jose Miguel Soto (Naco), Roberto Grissi (Hotel Renaissance Jaragua) and Fanny Sanchez (Hotel Colonial), that make up the association?s new board. …

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