2023 Travel News Archive – Page 15

Samana province is probably one of the most filmed destinations in the Caribbean. For years, Survival-style realities have been filmed there. This 2023, the Dominican Republic won the Emerging Location award with the project “Film Friendly Samana,” that promotes Samana province as a film destination. The Dominican Republic film agency, DCCine was in Cannes, France …

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President Luis Abinader was in Santiago for the ground-breaking for the 114 rooms and 30 suites Hampton by Hilton hotel part of the Square Santiago commercial area development at Calle Del Sol in Santiago near the Monumento de los Heroes de la Restauración. The hotel will have facilities for meetings. Sandy Rodríguez Gutiérrez for Gizeh …

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UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili highlighted the Dominican Republic’s tourism achievements during the opening of the World Tourism Organization Executive Council meeting in Punta Cana on 17 May 2023. Pololikashvili praised the rapid recovery of the Dominican tourism industry from the Covid-19 pandemic. He said the decisions and actions made the Dominican Republic a “world benchmark …

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Air Caraibes, the French airline based in Guadeloupe, has announced a significant increase in its flights to Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. For the winter season of 2023-2024, the airline says it will increase its flights by 50%, offering some 6,000 seats per week to flyers between France and the Dominican Republic. Air Caraibes is …

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The Santo Domingo Yacht Club is again very active this year, celebrating many fishing and sailing tournaments. The tournaments still on the agenda for this year are based at the yacht club’s Andres, Boca Chica main headquarters in Santo Domingo province. The Regata Solsticio de Verano is a sailing event scheduled for 24-25 June 2023. …

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The Supreme Court of Justice rejected an appeal by the promoters of a second international airport in the Punta Cana area. The Supreme Court responded to a request by the Corporación Aeroportuaria del Este, a Grupo Puntacana affiliate, filed on 5 March 2020. The Corporación Aeroportuaria del Este is the owner and operator of the …

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Frank Rainieri Marranzini, the founder of the Grupo Puntacana, is now owner of 51% of the shares of the Diario Libre, TV news commentator Maria Elena Nuñez announced during the morning talk show, El Sol de la Mañana. Diario Libre nor Frank Rainieri himself have confirmed the news that is circulating in media around the …

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The Dominican Republic received 862,705 visitors by air and sea in April 2023. The forecasts are now for more than nine million visitors this 2023. Tourism Minister David Collado shared the stats on April arrivals during the usual monthly statistics presentation. He said the numbers once again set new tourism arrival records for the Dominican …

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The cruise industry paid tribute to Orfila Salazar last week, describing her as a champion of the cruise ship industry. Salazar was the director for cruise ship affairs at the Ministry of Tourism for around three decades. She unexpectedly passed away on 8 May 2023 after a brief hospitalization. Sea Trade describes her as “the …

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The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization is meeting in Punta Cana 16-18 May 2023 for its 118th session. This is the first time the World Tourism Organization’s Executive Council Meeting is held in the Dominican Republic. The WTO says the meeting “comes at an extraordinary moment for the Dominican tourism industry.” On the …

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