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Cruise ship tourists change La Romana

From a city whose life previously revolved around the Casa de Campo resort and its residential community, La Romana has taken a new turn. With the success of the port built by Central Romana at the Romana River, thousands of tourists are now flocking to the city, spawning new livelihoods and increasing business. While La …

Carnival in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo’s annual carnival parade will take place Sunday, 7 March along the city’s malecon. The festivities will assemble all the carnival characters of earlier performances around the country, including the outstanding entrants of the La Vega and Santiago carnivals that take place every Sundays in February. Carnival in Santo Domingo begins a day earlier, …

Ecotourism Fair in Salinas

The southwestern province of Peravia, best known for its capital city of Bani, will host the annual International Ecotourism Fair this coming 24-29 March. The event, which will focus on the Punta Salinas and Bahia de las Calderas areas of Peravia, will this year be held in memory of journalist Rafael Herrera Cabral, former director …

Public hearing for Delta flight

The Civil Aviation Board is holding a public inquiry into Delta Airlines’ request to fly the New York/Santo Domingo/New York route. The public hearing for the governmental authorization is scheduled for Wednesday, 3 March at the conference room of the CAB department located at Avenida Mexico, corner 30 de Marzo. Delta Airlines recently announced it …

Casanova’s boleros and merengues

Dominican tenor Francisco Casanova took time off from his busy schedule of operatic performances to sing to his Caribbean compatriots, as reported in El Caribe. Under the direction of Manuel Tejada, he has recorded “Reflejos del alma,” in which poems of two Dominican sisters were arranged to the traditional merengue and mangulina rhythms. Also participating …

Puerto Plata revisited

Puerto Plata is enjoying a record winter. For the month of February it has become difficult to find a room on the North Coast if not secured in advance. Puerto Plata Village marketing director Carolina Berges attributed this to the thousands of US tourists who have been booking their trips to the pioneer of Dominican …

January tourism statistics

Travel was up to the Dominican Republic in January 2004, according to just released statistics from the Central Bank. Some 21,780 non-resident air arrivals represented a 6.9% increase over the same period last year. Statistics for January are the best in the past four years and foreign air arrivals were up 7.6% for the year …

Airport of entry statistics

Central Bank reports that 46.8% of all foreign arrivals entered via the Punta Cana International Airport on the East Coast, with 129.348 arrivals. Puerto Plata’s Gregorio Luperon International Airport, with 70,840 arrivals, ranked second, accounting for 25.6% of all national arrivals. Las Americas, with 43,773 arrivals, received 15.9%, and La Romana, with 27,515 arrivals, received …

A 2005 Baseball World Cup?

Paul Beeston, former president of Major League Baseball, believes a 2005 Baseball World Cup could mirror the success of the Soccer World Cup. According to Toronto Sun reporter George Gross, Beeston told him that while Major League Baseball will never participate in the Olympic Games (because of the summer schedule of the season), owners and …

84 baseball players in Major Leagues

Some 84 Dominican ballplayers are listed on the rosters of the Major League championship that starts 30 March. The American League has 44, while the National League has 40. National League: Cincinnati: D’Angelo Jimenez, Jose Acevedo, Wily Mo Pena. Houston: Octavio Dotel, Jose Vizcaino, Willy Taveras. Milwaukee Brewers: Luis Martinez, Luis Vizcaino, Leo Estrella. Pittsburgh …

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