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Sao Paulo to La Romana flight starts

Low-cost Brazilian airline Gol has started its direct flights from Sao Paulo, Brazil to La Romana’s Casa de Campo International Airport (LRM). A first B737-800 with capacity for 155 passengers will be landing at the airport on Sundays. This is the first time the La Romana resorts in Casa de Campo and Bayahibe-Dominicus have a …

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InterCaribbean Airways connects DR with Haiti

Regional airline InterCaribbean Airways is starting services from Kingston, Jamaica to Santo Domingo with a stopover in Port-au-Prince. There are Thursday and Saturday flights. The flying time from Jamaica to Haiti is 1 hour and 20 minutes, while the flight to Santo Domingo is another 55 minutes. In the past a longer flight to Puerto …

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Nonstop flights to Punta Cana from New Orleans and Buffalo

Sunwing Airline has announced direct nonstop flights to Punta Cana from New Orleans and Buffalo for tourists booking its affiliate Vacation Express packages. US travelers can now travel to Punta Cana direct from New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport. The Vacation Express tour company, based in Atlanta, announced the non-stop flights beginning 14 May to …

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Be Live hotel name changes

The Be Live hotel chain has re-categorized its hotels for improved marketing of the properties. The hotel chain properties are now divided into Be Live Experience and Be Live Collection hotels. The Be Live Experience hotels are dedicated to a broader market segment: Be Live Experience Hamaca Beach in Boca Chica. Be Live Experience Hamaca …

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Club Med announces more investments in the DR

President Danilo Medina hosted a visit by Club Med’s Marilyne Mesiano, Regional Vice President Development and Asset Management and Gregory Lanter, director of development at the Presidential Palace on Sunday 16 November 2014. The executives outlined details of the French company’s forthcoming tourism investments in the Dominican Republic. They were accompanied by legal counsel Fabio …

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Circus training gets better at Club Med

Circus training was one of the attractions at Club Med Punta Cana when it first opened to families in the 1980s. Now the program is getting better. Club Med has announced an alliance with Cirque du Soleil, the company that reinvented circus arts. Creactive by Cirque du Soleil will debut at the Club Med Punta …

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New terminal opens at Punta Cana International

Punta Cana’s new international terminal entered into operation on Saturday 1 November 2014. The airport now has the capacity to handle more than two million passengers a year. As of September 2014, the airport had handled around 53% of almost 4.3 million arrivals to the DR, most headed for the Punta Cana resorts. The new …

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Butterflies at the Botanical Gardens

The Santo Domingo Botanical Gardens, a must for all visitors to the city, have announced the opening of a new Butterfly Garden. The project is run by the Butterfly Garden Foundation, directed by Francina Lama de Barletta. Its construction was supervised by architect Henry Pimentel, working with support from the Bonao Cooperative. Botanical Gardens director …

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Cemex security chief dies in helicopter crash

The Cemex security chief, Juan Arturo Maceo Castaneda, who is also a deacon in the Catholic Church, was killed in a helicopter crash on Saturday, 1 November 2014. Another passenger in the HI419 helicopter, priest Roberto Adriano Bristman and pilot Victor Rodriguez were injured. The helicopter came down in sugarcane fields near Batey El Moruno …

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Tourism boosts Dominican economy

Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu said recently that the buoyant tourism industry is behind the 7% Gross Domestic Product growth the country has experienced over the first nine months of the year. Valdez Albizu said that hotels, bars and restaurant earnings were up 11.5%, for US$4.29 billion in receipts. There has been a 10% …

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Travel – Page 215

Sao Paulo to La Romana flight starts

InterCaribbean Airways connects DR with Haiti

Nonstop flights to Punta Cana from New Orleans and Buffalo

Be Live hotel name changes

Club Med announces more investments in the DR

Circus training gets better at Club Med

New terminal opens at Punta Cana International

Butterflies at the Botanical Gardens

Cemex security chief dies in helicopter crash

Tourism boosts Dominican economy