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Ministry of Tourism to inject RD$52.9 million in Bayahibe

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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Architectural Digest focuses on Jarabacoa home

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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La Vega is named an eco-touristic province

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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Book Fair and Visual Arts exhibition openings depend on how DR survives Franklin

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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Bachata World Festival set for Puerto Plata

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 …