Travel – Page 547

El Caribe was the only newspaper to publish today photographs of President Hipólito Mejía dancing merengue with the Queen of Spain. As would be expected, President Hipólito Mejía could not resist and invited Queen Sofia to dance at the end of the gala dinner offered by President Mejia at the National Palace. King Juan Carlos …

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King Juan Carlos said that the confidence of Spanish investors in the future of the Dominican economy has triggered a spectacular boom in Spanish investments headed for the DR. He spoke at an encounter with Spanish and Dominican businessmen held at the Hotel Santo Domingo Meliá on the last day of his three-day visit. He …

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The Ministry of Tourism has lifted the ban on the use of jet skies along East Coast beaches. Minister Ramón Alfredo Bordas has asked jet ski operators to visit the Ministry for the ruling that will apply their operation. (17 November 2000)

The Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento del Distrito Nacional (AND) ordered that works to expand the number of rooms at the Hostal Nicolás de Ovando in the Colonial City be suspended. A commission of the municipality revealed that the engineers carrying out the expansion have affected the original structure of that important period construction. Miguel Sandoval, …

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Barceló hotels in the DR added new properties to its hotel inventory in the Bávaro Beach area, along the East Coast. The Spanish hotel chain will now operate the Barceló Bávaro Village (234 rooms), Barceló Villas Bávaro (230 rooms) and Barceló Ocean Village (156 rooms) in the Bávaro area. These properties are located besides the …

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