2005 Travel News Archive – Page 15

The chief executive officer of Occidental Hotels in the Dominican Republic, Ventura Serra won the Grand Tourism Award 2004 during the Annual Tourism Awards Ceremony held last Thursday at the Hotel Melia Santo Domingo. The annual event is organized by the Ministry of Tourism. Ventura is first vice president of the National Hotel & Restaurant …

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The Ministry of Tourism and the city government of Santo Domingo is sponsoring music and art events at the Plaza de Espana and Columbus Park in the Colonial City. Thursday and Sunday performances are scheduled for the Plaza de Espana. On Fridays and Saturdays, art exhibitions presentations are scheduled for Columbus Park. Maestro Jorge Taveras, …

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The Ministry of Culture has lined up a major entertainment program for the celebration of the 2005 book fair. The book fair opens Thursday, 21 April and continues through Sunday, 1 May. This year?s fair is dedicated to Italy, but on the program is continuous live entertainment at the site of the fair that this …

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The 21-floor 228-room Hilton Santo Domingo will be receiving its first guests during the first weeks of May as it prepares for its first major conference with around 600 participants. The 30th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association with the theme of Caribbean Cooperation in the Age of Information Society will open the state …

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Promoters of the 138-room Courtyard Mariott Santiago announce the opening of the city hotel for spring 2006. The five-storey hotel will serve guests from its location at Duarte Highway, only five kms from the Cibao International and nine kilometers from the city center. Promoters also expect to attract those headed to Moca (12 kms away) …

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Twenty Dominican photographs are part of photographer Yann Arthurs-Bertrand?s inspiring traveling ?Earth from the Air? photography exhibition that will be shown in Santo Domingo from 22 April to 22 June at an outdoor gallery set up in the Independence Park in Colonial Santo Domingo. The Dominican photographs will be featured along with the stunning collection …

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US citizens will soon need passports to re-enter the US from the Dominican Republic. The program ?The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative? is phasing in the requirement for all US travelers to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda. Under current regulations, a birth certificate and driver?s license would suffice for travel to the Dominican Republic. This …

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The Central Bank first quarter tourism stats show non-resident travel to the country was up 8%. Non-resident arrivals increased from 961,213 inbound air arrivals to 1,038,388 from January to March 2005. Punta Cana continued to be the airport with most foreign arrivals, with 413,969 non-resident travelers coming during the first three months of the year. …

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US tourists lead the way in arrivals during the first three months of the year, with 270,895 Americans, or 11% more than the 243,264 Americans that came in 2004. Traffic from Canada declined 3%, going from 224,145 travelers in 2004 to 216,415 for the first quarter in 2005. Forty-four more Venezuelans came than last year, …

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Delta is scheduled to begin service to Santiago?s Cibao International Airport, the second largest city in the Dominican Republic, starting 1 May. Delta will be adding the flight from John F. Kennedy in New York. It already flies from JFK to Santo Domingo?s Las Americas International Airport. ?We listened carefully to our customers in New …

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