Travel – Page 501

Maximo Aristy Caraballo, District Attorney for Santo Domingo, and Antonio Ramis, the president of the Santo Domingo Hotel Association, have signed an agreement for a program to prevent sexual abuse of minors in the city. The agreement establishes that the district attorney will hold workshops to train hotel staff as to the rights of minors …

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Air Santo Domingo began flights to San Juan, Puerto Rico from Santiago last Sunday, 22 July. Air Santo Domingo uses a Beechcraft commuter plane with capacity for 17 passengers. The airline operates three flights a day from the Santo Domingo inner-city airport, Herrera International, to San Juan. In addition, it operates several flights a day …

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Central Bank travel statistics to show US and Canadian travel to the DR is on the rise. Ramon Prieto, president of Asonahores, says the slowdown of the US economy makes the short haul destination of the DR attractive to US and Canadian travelers. “Just three hours flight time from New York, and two from Miami, …

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President Hipolito Mejia and Minister of Tourism Ramon Alfredo Bordas signed an agreement yesterday with American Express for the Official Card Program. Jon Linen, vice president of the board of directors of American Express, and Pedro Castillo, president of the Banco del Progreso Dominicano (which represents Amex in the DR), signed the agreement. In October …

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President of the Organizing Committee of the Pan American Games, neurosurgeon Jose Joaquin Puello, has announced that the recently-elected president of the International Olympic Committtee, Jacques Rogge of Belgium, will visit the DR on 15 August. Rogge is a surgeon, former Olympic competitor in yachting, and until recently was president of the European Olympic Committee. …

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