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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has just released a comprehensive directory on hotel properties in the Dominican Republic, Directorio de Establecimientos de Alojamiento. For more information, contact Socrates Barinas Guerrero at the Central Bank. Tel. 221-9111 ext. 3115  Click here for more details

New Outlook, a lifestyle publication for the senior demographic that has a circulation of 450,000 across Canada in two languages will be running a travel article on the Dominican Republic in its fall issue. DR1 is assisting the magazine with its photographs. The magazine is published by Redwood Custom Communications, a company that produces custom …

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The Diario Libre announced that beginning next Thursday 1 May there will be a direct ferry service between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo. Ferries del Caribe told reporters from Diario Libre that they had invested US$6.5 million in a new vessel, the M/S Caribbean Express, which has 365 cabins and will cover the …

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Two new tourism bodies have been established, President Hip?lito Mej?a announced at the closure of the IV National Tourism Convention last night. The Superior Tourism Committee and the National Tourism Promotion Office will bring together private and public sector people in the tourist industry, with the aim of promoting the Dominican tourism sector. Mej?a declared …

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Belen G?mez, of Occidental Hoteles Hotel Embajador, is the new president of the Santo Domingo Hotel Association (2003-2005). She is joined by Jose Corletto (Hotel Plaza), Kurt Schamper (Hotel Santo Domingo-Hispaniola), Aura Dominguez (Hodelpa), Jose Miguel Soto (Naco), Roberto Grissi (Hotel Renaissance Jaragua) and Fanny Sanchez (Hotel Colonial), that make up the association?s new board. …

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Frank Rainieri, president of the Punta Cana Group, announced that the Punta Cana Resort & Golf Club and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University will be offering a one-week executive program in winter 2004. The Executive Certificate in Environmental Conservation, Economics and Policy combines instruction from recognized environmental scientists and policy …

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Monday, 5 May is a holiday in the Dominican Republic. It celebrates Labor Day, which falls on Thursday, 1 May. The Ministry of Labor announced that it would be celebrated on Monday, instead of on Friday, 2 May. Regardless, hotel occupancy will be at an all time high for the long weekend. Thousands of Dominicans …

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?In the next 30 years, the world will be more affected by environmental challenges than by terrorism,? former President Bill Clinton said during his opening remarks at the ?Making Biodiversity Work for your Travel Business? meeting, held from 24-26 April in Punta Cana. ?In the 21st century we won?t have economy if we do not …

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Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Senator Hillary Rodham, had lunch with President Hip?lito Mej?a and First Lady Rosa G?mez on Friday in Santo Domingo. The Clintons were in the Dominican capital on their Easter holiday. Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch also attended the luncheon, as well as other Mej?a family …

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El Caribe newspaper highlights today what is becoming very apparent: bachata has nudged merengue aside as the most popular current genre of music in the Dominican Republic. Leading Dominican contemporary musician Luis D?as attributes the merengue?s decline in popularity to the resistance of the orchestras and bandleaders to pay good Dominican composers. ?The national music …

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