2019 Travel News Archive – Page 2

Club Med has opened its second all-inclusive resort near the town of Miches on the eastern coast. A green-minded resort, Club Med Miches Playa Esmeralda is located north of Punta Cana. It is a first for the Miches beach area. The resort is also the first of Club Med’s new Exclusive Collection brand to open …

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The Ministry of Tourism has launched a new repositioning advertising campaign centered around tourist testimonials, third-party endorsements and brand partnerships. The Ministry explains that “The Real DR” is part of a multi-pronged marketing campaign that invites travelers to experience the Dominican Republic’s brand through the unscripted statements, stories and testimonials of actual tourists. The campaign …

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Casa de Campo has a new event and convention center, the Marina Riverside Center. It has a capacity for gatherings for up to 700 people. President Danilo Medina and Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia were in La Romana for the official opening day, on 21 November 2019. The Marina Riverside Center can be booked for …

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Punta Cana is the top domestic and international destination for this Thanksgiving holiday, according to the leading travel insurance company Allianz Global Assistance. This is the first time that the Dominican Republic dominates the ranking after climbing seven positions and dethroning Cancún in Mexico, the preferred destination since the study began in 2015. “Our survey …

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A new store at Agora Mall in Santo Domingo is selling Dominican designer clothes, including designer bathing suits. Dominican designer Jenny Polanco is the curator and her daughter, architect Carla Quiñones, the organizer of “Dominican Selection,” a space for locally designed apparel. Mother and daughter present “Creado Aquí” a seasonal store on the third floor …

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A show at the Eduardo León Cultural Center in Santiago explores the 50-year career of the late Dominican-born designer Oscar de la Renta. “Being Oscar de la Renta” opened on 22 November 2019 and will run until March 2020. Dominican Sara Hermann curated the retrospective. The show by itself is more than enough reason to …

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The new family-friendly section, Now Onyx Splash opened at the Now Onyx Punta Cana in Uvero Alto, in northern Punta Cana. 320 suites are added to the Now Onyx Punta Cana, bringing the resort’s overall total to 822 rooms. The Now Onyx Splash features a water park with four water slides, including one of the …

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On occasion of the inauguration of a family-friendly section at the Now Onyx Punta Cana, Apple Leisure Group’s chairman, Alex Zozaya announced the company would soon be including a property in southwestern Bahía de las Aguilas, as reported in Diario Libre. The announcement is the first for a major tourism operation for the environmentally-protected southwestern …

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Foreign air arrival statistics for 2019 show a decline of 1.2% from January to October 2019, compared to the first ten months in 2018. Tourist air arrivals for January to October 2018 were 5,424,399. This compares to 5,359,903 for that period this year. 64,496 fewer tourists came this year than in the same period in …

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The Dominican Republic mission to the 40th World Travel Market (WTM) held recently in London, England announced a 33% increase in long haul flights to the country from the airports of Birmingham, Gatwick and Manchester to Punta Cana for in 2020. During the WTM, Magaly Toribio, marketing consultant to the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism, …

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