2013 Travel News Archive – Page 11

The president of St. Croix-based Seaborne Airlines, Gary Foss was in Santo Domingo recently for talks aimed at starting flights from Puerto Rico to La Romana and La Isabela airports (the latter is in northern Santo Domingo). The airline plans to begin these flights before the end of the year, in a bid to fill …

Read more…

Aquamundo at Santo Domingo’s Sambil Mall opens to the general public on Wednesday, 10 July. The new aquarium features colorful and out of the ordinary fishes, turtles, eels, stingrays and sharks from seas and oceans all over the world. A US$4 million investment, it is said to include 1,500 species from all around the world. …

Read more…

Last week the Dominican Fiesta Hotel inaugurated the operation of the largest solar powered installation at any hotel in the Dominican Republic. 1,088 solar panels with installed capacity for 266.56 kWp will generate some 390 kWh of energy all year round. National Energy Commission president Enrique Ramirez said that on weekends, when power consumption at …

Read more…

With a call for unity and organization, Rafael Blanco Tejera, president of the Samana Tourism Cluster, opened the First Annual Meeting for the Touristic Development of Samana on Tuesday, 25 June. At the conference organized by the Tourism Cluster of Samana and the Ministry of Tourism, business and government representatives set out their agenda for …

Read more…

Royal Caribbean’s Michael Ronan is challenging the people of Samana to organize, saying that successful cruise port towns guarantee an organized environment, where people can move around at their leisure, free from being hassled by vendors. Also essential is good information, adequate and easy to take ground transportation, and a variety of things to do …

Read more…

Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia urged stakeholders in Samana to continue to work closely with the government, creating local synergies. He called on local leadership to define their priorities in social responsibility, infrastructure and promotion. Javier Garcia announced that the Ministry has the funds for the construction of an adequate entrance to the province. …

Read more…

The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association and the Caribbean Tourism Organization announced they will be co-hosting the third-annual Caribbean Hospitality Investment Conference and Operations Summit (CHICOS) 7-8 November at the Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana. The leading regional organization joins its own longstanding Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference with the HVS’ CHICOS event. “With …

Read more…

The province of Puerto Plata is the focus of Centro Cuesta Nacional’s promotional efforts this year and next, under the “Pride of My Land” social corporate responsibility program. The program previously has focused on Samana (in the Northeast), Barahona & Pedernales (in the Southwest), La Vega (in the central Dominican Republic) and Puerto Plata (in …

Read more…

The Ministry of Culture announced that the famous opera La Boheme will be presented at the National Theater to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the National Theater on 7, 9, 11 August 2013. The opera had opened at the Teatro some 30 years ago. Maestro Jose Antonio Molina, director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was …

Read more…

The Central Bank reports that non-resident visitors totaled 329,422 in May, up 4.12% or 13,045 additional tourists compared to the same month last year. Nevertheless, travel so far this year has only increased 0.25%, when adding up arrivals from January to May 2013, compared to the first five months of last year. The decline is …

Read more…