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Continental to fly to Punta Cana

Continental is joining the rush to service the popular Punta Cana-New York route. Pete Garcia, Continental’s vice president for sales and marketing for Latin America, announced the start of the nonstop, daily service between its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport for 10 June 2004. Tickets will go on sale once governmental approval …
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Record occupancy in February

February was a month of record hotel occupancy in the Dominican Republic. Occupancy averaged 90.8%, according to the National Hotel & Restaurant Association (Asonahores). February is a peak month for sun-seeking tourism. This year occupancy increased 4.8 percentage points over that of February 2003. Asonahores says it was an excellent year for all beach destinations, …
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Introducing coral reef restoration

The president of Counterpart International, a community-driven international development organization, visited last week to meet with Dominican business leaders as well as international aid officials interested in developing sustainable development programs. Lelei LeLaulu and his organization are introducing the Coral Gardens program, the successful community-driven reef restoration program that has the plus of increasing local …