Travel – Page 514

The Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras are proposing that the World Trade Organization apply rules on competition to aviation services, as part of their proposal for an Annex on Tourism Services to the WTO’s services agreement, known as GATS. Dominican ambassador Federico Cuello Camilo, president of the Working Group on Liberalization of Tourism of …

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The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Merengue Festival. The event will take place 18-29 July. The inaugural event is set for Wednesday, 18 at the Palacio Bellas Artes at 8 pm. That evening, several “perico ripiao” music groups will play in the west gardens of the Palacio Bellas Artes. Following that event, …

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President Hipolito Mejia announced the construction of the Sanate Hydroelectric Dam in La Altagracia province. The dam will supply potable water, irrigation and electrical power to the province. It will be built at an estimated cost of RD$2,832 million (approx. US$170 million). The dam will be built where Mana and Sanate rivers meet. The construction …

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Ventura Serra, head of Occidental Hotels operations in the DR, announced the closing of the Caribbean Village Playa Grande (Maria Trinidad Sanchez province) and the Club on the Green (Playa Dorada) for remodeling. The hotels will be closed for four months. The announcements follow the closing of the Puerto Plata Beach Resort in Puerto Plata …

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The Association of Spanish Festivities in the DR held Santo Domingo’s first bull run ever over the weekend. A three-minute bull run took place from Atarazana street through Vicente Celestino Duarte and Cristobal Colon. Youths raced the confused bulls that didn’t understand what was going on. The Spaniards tried to do a Caribbean version of …

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