{"id":144285,"date":"2020-07-23T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=144285"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:15:31","slug":"tourism-minister-to-be-david-collado-names-papo-blanco-his-honorary-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/23\/tourism-minister-to-be-david-collado-names-papo-blanco-his-honorary-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister-to-be David Collado names &#8220;Papo Blanco&#8221; his honorary advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rafael-Papo-Blanco-Listin-Diario-e1595498937547.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144304\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly named future tourism minister, David Collado announced he has asked Rafael &#8220;Papo&#8221; Blanco to be his honorary assistant. Blanco is a former president of the National Hotel &amp; Restaurant Association (Asonahores). He was also the first president of the National Business Council (2015-2017) to come from the tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a pioneer of the tourism industry, from the days when Italian groups first discovered Dominican beaches and Bayahibe-Dominicus. He was incidental in developing several ventures there that evolved to become Viva Wyndham Resorts. He also developed hotels in Samana, on the northeastern coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collado tweeted: &#8220;Because of his great experience in the tourism sector, in coordination with President @luisabinader, I have asked Mr. Rafael &#8220;Papo&#8221; Blanco to be the Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Tourism, a position he has accepted. We are building a great team to rescue tourism,&#8221; Collado wrote a day after being announced as Abinader&#8217;s choice to lead the tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/economia\/2020\/07\/22\/627332\/papo-blanco-queda-designado-asesor-honorifico-del-ministerio-de-turismo\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly named future tourism minister, David Collado announced he has asked Rafael &#8220;Papo&#8221; Blanco to be his honorary assistant. Blanco is a former president of the National Hotel &amp; Restaurant Association (Asonahores). He was also the first president of the National Business Council (2015-2017) to come from the tourism sector. He is a pioneer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/23\/tourism-minister-to-be-david-collado-names-papo-blanco-his-honorary-advisor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[272,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144305,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144285\/revisions\/144305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}