2006 Travel News Archive – Page 4

Coral is no longer a Hilton

Coral Hotels & Resorts and Hilton Hotels Corporation announced that effective 31 October the Coral by Hilton brand would be dissolved after a three-year relationship. Hilton president Matthew Hart described the relationship as successful, and Simon Suarez, executive vice president of Coral Hotels said the de-branding was a mutually agreed and amicable decision. Coral by …

Modern hotel for new city center

InterContinental Hotels Group, the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, will operate the new Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites Santo Domingo, slated for opening at the end of 2007. The new hotel site is the corner of Abraham Lincoln Avenue and Rafael Augusto Sanchez Street in the bustling new commercial and residential …

Cruise ship season under way

With the arrival of the Braemar at the Don Diego docks, the 2006-2007 cruise ship season started in Santo Domingo. The Port of Santo Domingo is currently in the midst of a massive remodeling project. The first 599 visitors who arrived on Wednesday, 25 October were met, however, with a traditional merengue band and dance …

Wall Street Journal on DR

In its Saturday, 28 October edition, the Wall Street Journal featured an article by Martin Edlund on new luxury tourism developments in the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The focus was on the Gran Bahia Principe Samana scheduled luxury resorts, Sea Horse Ranch villas success, new developments in Playa Dorada (namely Casa Colonial), and …

Feature on DR makes Sunday NY Times

With the prediction that “the country is increasingly becoming the five-star playground of the Caribbean,” Seth Kugel writes about current options for vacations in the DR in a feature in the New York Times Sunday, 29 October edition, starting from his stay at the Tortuga Bay boutique hotel in Punta Cana. The feature is titled: …

Sun Village Film Festival

The Dominican International Film Festival 2006 will take place at the Sun Village, Resort & Spa in Cofresi, Puerto Plata and at the Cine Roma of Puerto Plata city this coming Monday 6 November through Saturday, 11 November. Thirty-seven films are featured from the US, Cuba, Spain, France, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, Philippines, the …

Reverse rule sought for passport issue

Tourism leaders of the Caribbean are proactively working to administratively reverse the 29 September decision of the US government that would require passports of air arrivals from the Caribbean starting 8 January 2007. 75% of US citizens traveling abroad in 2005 did so without passports. Tourism is the main industry of the Caribbean. The ministers …

DR in Conde Nast Traveler contest

Dominican 10-year old Virginia Nunez Mir, a granddaughter of national poet Pedro Mir, participated in the Conde Nast Traveler annual Caribbean Tourism Organization’s essay writing contest for children 8-12 years. The 10-year old Colegio Dominico-Americano student won an expenses-paid trip with her mother to Bahamas to share with 24 other children from the Caribbean. The …

Paradisus is paradise for kids

Sussanna Mander, director of brand management for Paradisus resorts of the Sol Group Corporation, speaking during a presentation on branding during the CTC-29 in Bahamas, announced that the company seeks to differentiate itself and has innovated adding unique attributes to its extensive amenities in order to cater to the luxury family market with its properties. …

Leading Hotels of the World adds Punta Cana hotel

The prestigious certification organization Leading Hotels of the World has added the Punta Cana boutique hotel, Tortuga Bay to its select collection of hotels. Tortuga Bay is part of the Punta Cana Resort & Club, and is located beside the P. B. Dye-designed seaside golf course and the Six Senses Spa, part of the equally …

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