Travel – Page 508

Alex Santana, president of Aerodom, the company that operates the Puerto Plata and Santo Domingo (Las Americas) airports, said they invested US$52 million in the terminals in their first year. Seventy percent of the money went into the Las Americas International Airport. There, new conveyor belts, customs and migration equipment, electrical and air-conditioning systems have …

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The president of Grupo Servicios Aereos Profesionales, which owns Air Santo Domingo, has criticized the Civil Aviation Board (CAB) for allowing American Eagle to fly into Herrera Airport. Until then, Air Santo Domingo was the only airline to fly into Herrera and so had an advantage over American Eagle as thousands of travellers preferred the …

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Four people from the Dominican Republic, eight from Mexico, two from Venezuela, two from Paraguay and two from Israel made the finals of the Marlboro Adventure Team. The trials were held in Rancho Baiguate in Jarabacoa, about 100 kilometers from Santo Domingo. Competitors had to compete in jeeping, enduro motorbike racing, rafting, rapelling, four wheel …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that on 5 July, President Hipolito Mejia authorized an urban renewal development worth RD$5 billion in Sans Souci, on the East Side of Santo Domingo. The project would go up in a 394,509 square meter area, adjacent to the Columbus Lighthouse and the Mirador del Este park where sports venues for …

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The government has announced it will organize an annual ecotourism fair. The first event is scheduled to be held in Puerto Plata from 8-11 November. The fair site could be the Botanical Gardens atop Isabel de Torres Mountain, or in Cabarete or the Damajagua Falls area in Imbert. A planning committee headed by the Minister …

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Hoy newspaper reports that while Mexico and Cuba saw increases in tourists of 29% and 11% respectively, air arrivals to the DR declined 0.04 in the first half of the year. Alan Ramirez, administrative director of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, said that the decline is mainly due to a major drop in German …

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