2015 Travel News Archive – Page 14

The Carnival Corporation is advertising opportunities for cruise passengers to make a social impact with their visit to the Dominican Republic starting next year. Carnival has launched the Fathom cruise brand that will offer social impact travel to ?meet the real hunger in the world for purpose,? announced the company. During the seven-day trips from …

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Registration is open for the Punta Cana Tri Sports Summer Fest 2015. There will be races in open water swims and triathlon. The competitions are: triathlon spring and Olympic (individual and relays), child triathlon, spring duathlon, open water swims 1.5 kilometer and 3 kilometer, spring aquathlon, 5K run. The event will take place in Punta …

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Join Dominican open water swimmers who will be heading north to Puerto Plata for the Second Open Waters Swim on 5 July 2014. The event is being organized by the Puerto Plata Swimming Club at the Riviera Azul beach stretch in Playa Dorada. https://www.facebook.com/www.clubdenadadorespop.com.do

President Danilo Medina visited the Amber Cove Cruise Center last week to inspect progress at the cruise ship port located in Maimon, 10 minutes from Puerto Plata city. The port is scheduled to open for cruise ship visits in October 2015. A joint project between the Carnival Corporation plc and the Rannik family of Grupo …

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Triathlon and open water swimmers are invited to register for the Punta Cana Tri Sports Summer Fest 2015 that will take place in Punta Cana on Sunday, 12 July 2015. The program consists of a sprint and Olympic triathlon (individual and relays), a children’s triathlon, spring duathlon, 1.5k and 3k open water swim, spring acuathlon, …

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Samana is celebrating the annual Festival del Marisco Ripiao in the city of Sanchez on the southwestern shore of the peninsula, from 19 to 21 June 2015. The festival highlights the seafood-based gastronomy of Sanchez, local culture and conservation of natural resources in the province of Samana. It is being organized by the Samana Bay …

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Chinese tour operators will be visiting the Dominican Republic for the Caribbean Tourism Bourse to be held at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel in Santo Domingo from 25-27 June 2015, announced event organizer Luis Felipe Aquino. He said that Chinese tour operators were interested in including the Dominican Republic in multi-destination travel for Chinese tourists, pointing …

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Sunrise Airways has announced it will operate regular flights from Port-au-Prince to northern Santo Domingo’s La Isabela International Airport (JBQ). The announcement comes as part of the Haitian airline’s plans to continue to expand to other destinations in the Caribbean. Sunrise is the first Haitian airline to obtain a permit for regular flights to the …

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The Central Bank tourism statistics department says that 16,783 more tourists visited the country in April 2015 compared to the same month in 2014, or 4.3% more. The Central Bank projects the increase in travel to reach 5% by the end of 2015. Travel to the Dominican Republic has been affected by a drop in …

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It’s the time to head west to the Central Park in the southwestern city of Bani and choose from a vast selection of mangos. Take note there are over 200 varieties. Expo Mango is held in Bani every year so that producers can showcase the latest advances and promote the consumption of this delicious summer …

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