Travel – Page 57

Tourism Minister David Collado announced road improvements for RD$52,946,746 in the southeastern coastal beach town of Bayahibe. The roads seek to improve the connection between the different communities in the municipality. “These works are just the beginning of everything we have to turn this destination into a true model because Bayahibe’s time has come,” Minister …

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Preparations are far advanced for the start of the National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores) 35th Commercial Exhibition in Punta Cana. The event will take place at Blue Mall Punta Cana from 6 to 8 September 2023. An area of more than 4,000 square meters has been set aside for the 160 companies that will …

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Architectural Digest has included a feature on a renovated barn house in Jarabacoa, the mountain vacation destination in central La Vega province. Interestingly, the owner of the house took a century-old Pennsylvania English-style barn house and reassembled it for his dream house in the mountains, adding porches and other complements to the wooden structure now …

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The Dominican Republic awaits the brunt of Tropical Storm Franklin on Wednesday and Thursday, but with the storm yet km away, it is already raining heavily on Tuesday, 22 August 2023. Weather forecasters as of early morning Tuesday, 22 August 2023 say the storm is moving very slowly (3mph) in a NW direction that would …

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The director of the Dominican Port Authority, Jean Luis Rodríguez announced that construction is advanced on the touristic and fishing port in Cabeza de Toro, part of the Punta Cana touristic area. The port is less than a 15-minute drive from the Punta Cana International Airport. The new dock has a “T” type jetty with …

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President Luis Abinader issued Decree 47-23 that declares La Vega as an ecotourism province. The decree will bring tax incentive advantages for tourism development in the province. The decree creates the Ecotourism Development Council of the province of La Vega presided by the Minister of Tourism. Other members are representatives of the ministries of Culture, …

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Of the seven or so million tourists that come to the Dominican Republic each year, only a miniscule fraction of them even know about the fascinating things to be seen and experienced in the seven provinces that make up the land border with Haiti. The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development recently shared a map …

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The 25th Dominican Book Fair is scheduled to open on Thursday, 24 August 2023. Given Tropical Storm Franklin is expected to hit on Wednesday, it is unknown what will happen to the book fair that includes dozens of invited guests from around the world. The book fair was scheduled to run through Sunday, 3 September …

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The ADN Bachata World Festival will take place from 16 to 20 November 2023 at venues in Puerto Plata. Tourism Minister David Collado has expressed the Ministry’s support to promoting Dominican bachata abroad. The First World Bachata Festival is held in the Dominican Republic, in the Cibao region where the internationally famous music originated. The …

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On 30 September 2022, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) and the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Mirex) had agreed to start negotiations to include the Dominican Republic in the US Global Entry foreign partner countries. Less than a year was to pass, when on 14 August 2023, the US government announced the enactment …

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