2003 – Page 34

Samana hosted the most important laser sailing event since the Pan American Games in 2003 at Las Terrenas beach last week. Twenty competitors from eight countries took part in the event organized by the Dominican Sailing Federation. Canadian Bernard Luttmer won in the laser standard category, followed by competitors Gustavo Lima from Portugal, Brad Funk …

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Starting Tuesday, 4 April, Surinam Airways will provide an additional link from the Dominican Republic to the southern Caribbean and South America. The airline will begin direct flights to Curacao, the first stop in a flight that continues on to Port of Spain (POS) and Paramaribo (PBM), the capital of Surinam. Fares are US$180 round …

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DATE (Dominican Annual Travel Exchange), the leading travel booking event for the Dominican Republic, will be held this coming 5-7 April, this time in Punta Cana on the eastern coast. The brand new convention area at the Paradisus Palma Real, one of the new “six-star” hotels opening in the area, is home base for the …

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Ventura Serra, president of Occidental Hotels in the DR, and Gabriel Felip, global chairman of the Spanish-based hotel chain, were in Santo Domingo last week for the Embajador Hotel’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The hotel was built in 1955 by the Dominican government and inaugurated on 12 February 1956 as an InterContinental Hotel. It featured a …

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Fashion jet setter Donatella Versace was a guest at Casa Colonial, Playa Dorada’s small luxury hotel. According to reports, she came with her two children, Allegra and Daniel. Casa Colonial was recently mentioned in Travel & Leisure’s March issue as one of 12 hot spots for sun-seeking travel today. See http://dr1.com/directories/hotels/demo_gran_casa_colonial_VH.shtml

The Casandra awards evening is the Dominican equivalent of the Oscars awards ceremony, especially when it comes to fashion. Designer to the stars, Jorge Diep, Leonel Lirio (of Miss Universe fame) and Luis Menier are three designers who chose or are chosen by the showbiz celebrities to design the outfits that will be highlighted the …

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It’s confirmed. Sting and his Broken Music Tour will perform at the 5,000 seat Altos de Chavon amphitheatre in La Romana this coming Wednesday, 26 April as part of his North American-Caribbean Tour that includes stopovers in Tobago, DR, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Las Vegas, Nevada. The Broken Music Tour consists of Sting on …

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Mexican investors from the Cancun and Riviera Maya area continue to announce major investments in tourism ventures along the Dominican Republic’s eastern coast. Earlier this year, Xcaret investors expressed a strong interest in building a theme park. Now, Palace Resorts investors held the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of their first DR resort, a Moon …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in La Romana on Wednesday, 8 March for the formal opening of the second phase of the Casa de Campo Marina. The marina expansion area has 167 berths for yachts from 50 to 250 feet, and eight docks for sailboats and three for large catamarans. The marina features a new 1,200-meter …

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The largest shopping center in the Punta Cana area is under way. The Palma Real Shopping Center offers 10,000 square meters of shopping space for 60 stores to the booming Punta Cana area. The promoters, the Spanish firms Sol Melia, Anta Empresas and Proinversion expect the mall to be open by the end of this …

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