2015 Travel News Archive – Page 2

InterCaribbean Airways announced the start of a scheduled service from Antigua (ANU-VC Bird International Airport) to Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport on 9 December 2015. The twice-weekly direct service with 30 seats per flight is seen as a boost for Antiguan and Dominican tourism as well as serving the large community of Dominicans living …

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Gansevoort in Playa Imbert, Sosua, Puerto Plata has made Fortune Magazine’s Top 10 new luxury hotel list, which also includes: Mandarin Oriental, Marrakesh, Morocco Sant Francesc, Palma Mallorca, Spain Aman, Tokyo, Japan Villa Rene Lalique, Alsace, France Reverie Saigon, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam Temple House, Chengdu, China Sujan Rajmahal Palace, Jaipur, India La Fiermontina, Puglia, Italy …

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Recent renovations at the Playa Dorada’s Hotel Gran Ventana included its main buffet restaurant, the “Mercado Las Almejas”. Guests at the hotel can now enjoy six stations of show cooking for meats, seafood and fish, Asian cooking, pastas, pizzas and health food at the restaurant. Estudio Sarah Garcia was in charge of the design. The …

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La Romana’s Casa de Campo will be hosting the Latin American Amateur Championship from 14-17 January 2016. The championship will be played at Teeth of the Dog golf course, the oldest and most famous in Casa de Campo. The golf course features seven holes along the Caribbean Sea and has been consistently ranked as one …

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Advent International has announced the signing on 11 December 2015 of a stock purchase agreement to sell Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom) concession to Vinci Airports, SAS of France based in Rueil-Malmaison. Including the six in the Dominican Republic, Vinci will now operate 33 airports around the world, including airports in France, Portugal, Cambodia, Japan …

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Latin American airlines, Lan and Tam, both of Latam Airlines Group with headquarters in Santiago, Chile, began their weekly regular flights from Bogota and Brasilia to Punta Cana International Airport last week. Brazilian Tam began operations from Brasilia on Saturday, 5 December 2015. Passengers will be able to connect through other Brazilian cities on Wednesdays, …

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For the first time ever, non-resident travel to the Dominican Republic has broken the five- million annual mark. Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia says that these are the best times for the tourism industry in the past 40 years, consolidating the country not only as a leader in the Caribbean, but also for Central America …

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Gilberto Santa Rosa will be performing live at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana on Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 9pm. Special packages are available for guests coming for Christmas and staying at the hotel.

On Sunday, 27 December 2015, talented Dominican singer-songwriter Pavel Nunez will be playing a free concert at Plaza Chavon in Altos de Chavon, La Romana. Admission is free if you are already in Casa de Campo; otherwise, there is a US$25 admission fee.

Two Dominican-born contestants are competing in the Miss Universe 2015 pageant – Miss Dominican Republic, Clarissa Molina and Miss Canada, Paola Nunez, who emigrated from the DR as a child. Miss Dominican Republic Clarissa Molina has been included in the top 10 list of favorites for the event together with the representatives of Sweden, Vietnam, …

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