Travel – Page 612

The Renaissance Capella Beach Resort is promoting itself as an option for a beach holiday this summer. In Villas del Mar, the hotel offers guests a secluded world of luxury and relaxation. Each of the 283 rooms includes a king-size or two full-size beds, satellite TV, and hair dryers in every bathroom, individually controlled air-conditioning, …

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Spokesmen for the tourist industry expressed their concern days before the 16 May election about the drop experienced in hotel occupancy in several areas of the country. The Minister of Tourism, Frank Jorge Elías, told the Listín Diario that the proliferation of posters and campaign paraphernalia throughout the cities has affected the general appearance of …

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Ecologists are appealing to the press to stress the importance of the El Pomier caves, in San Cristóbal. They hope to emphasize that the country has more to gain in exploiting the region as an ecotourism site rather than as an area for quarrying limestone. Last week, Geraldino González, environmental reporter for the Listín Diario, …

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Sabre Travel Information Network, the American Airlines computer reservations system, opened new offices and a training center in Santo Domingo last week. Michael Parks, vice president of Sabre Travel for Latin America and the Caribbean, came for the occasion. Sabre has been offering computerized travel information and reservations services to its clients for 25 years. …

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The government is dredging the principal ports of the country, including those at Haina, and the tourist ports of Puerto Plata and Santo Domingo. The Navy has been entrusted with the work that requires the renovation of two old dredgers and the purchase of a new one. Vice Admiral Geraldo Santana Solano, chief of the …

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A group of private pilots carried out a promotional fly-in to the Maria Montez International Airport at Barahona last Saturday, 11 May, departing in the early morning from the Aeropuerto International de Herrera in Santo Domingo. The group was organized by the Aeroclub Dominicano to promote the development of tourism in the south. Aircraft owners …

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The Colombian airline Ases is interested in covering the route Bogota-Puerto Plata-Santo Domingo-Bogota using a B727-200. Mr. Angel S. García Alecón, representing the Ministry of Tourism, and representatives of the Asociación de Hoteles y Restaurantes de Sosua y Cabarete, the management of the Puerto Plata International Airport and other tourist industry executives, met with the …

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The National Hotels & Restaurants Association (Asonahores) held a working session last Thursday, 9 May at the Hotel Santo Domingo to formally present to the principal political parties its Guidelines for a Concerted Proposal for Sustaininable Tourist Development. Asonahores executives met with Jacinto Peynado, Dr Peña Gómez, and Dr Leonel Fernández. At the event, it …

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Santo Domingo should be a priority in the plan of the next tourist authorities. Asonahores considers that the new government should support private sector efforts to convert the city, in a short period of time, into an attractive venue for conventions, fairs, congresses and sporting events. The position was supported by the Association of Hotels …

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President Joaquín Balaguer officially opened the Barahona International Airport on Saturday, 27 April. The new Maria Montez International Airport is planned to bring an onset of investors to the region, one of the country’s prime ecotourism areas, which also contains some of its most panoramic scenery. During the opening ceremony the president was accompanied by …

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