Travel – Page 138

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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According to Melina Cruz, in charge of the Colonial City Touristic Observatory says that in the first half of 2019, visitors to Santo Domingo’s Colonial City were up 3% compared to the previous year. An estimated 60,934 foreign tourists visit the area each year. The Observatory estimates that tourists spend an average of US$138 a …

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The traditional Christmas Carol Concert at the Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia Basilica in Higuey will take place on Friday, 29 November 2019. The event starts at 7pm. The Koribe Choir of the Ministry of Culture and the National Symphony Orchestra will perform. Maestro Jose Antonio Molina is the conductor. The concert also includes the …

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From Thursday, 21 November through Sunday, 1 December 2019, the 23rd Ecotouristic and Production Fair will take place in the environs of the Pomier Caves in San Cristóbal. The activity is organized by the Fundación Ciencia y Arte, directed by Jacqueline Boin and José Serulle Ramia, with the backing of San Cristóbal Mayor Nelson Guillén. …

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Get your tickets early. A full house is expected for the 8pm Saturday, 23 November 2019 performance of the Conjunto Quisqueya at the Puerto Plata Amphitheater. Conjunto Quisqueya is a Dominican merengue band that relocated to Puerto Rico. The band makes annual Christmas visits to the Dominican Republic and its cheerful music gets locals brings …

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