{"id":180082,"date":"2022-06-07T07:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=180082"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:03:39","slug":"positioning-santiago-as-a-tourism-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/positioning-santiago-as-a-tourism-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Positioning Santiago as a tourism destination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy-1024x660.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180148\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy-1536x990.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Santiago-destino-turistico-Hoy.png 1784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Santiago is the second largest city in the Dominican Republic. It is known as the capital of cigar production and a major manufacturing city in general.  It is a university town, and a booming health city, attracting medical tourism. It is also known for its grass roots merengue and its carnival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 25th Exposition for Tourism that took place Friday, 3 June 2022 in Santiago, Tourism Minister David Collado outlined the ministry&#8217;s plans to push Santiago de los Caballeros into the world of big-time tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government\u2019s entire Tourism Cabinet and the top echelon of Minister Collado\u2019s staff took part in the event&#8217;s opening ceremonies at the Gran Almirante Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his short speech to the attending, Collado urged local leaders to produce a workable plan to position the Ciudad Corazon (The Heart of the Nation) as a tourism destination. The plan is to package the attractions for tour operators, with a focus on the hospitality of the population of Santiago is also known for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the push to bring Santiago into the realm of big-time Dominican tourism, Collado announced that the government would make available a budget of RD$50 million to promote the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/collado-se-compromete-convertir-a-santiago-en-gran-destino-turistico\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 June 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago is the second largest city in the Dominican Republic. It is known as the capital of cigar production and a major manufacturing city in general. It is a university town, and a booming health city, attracting medical tourism. It is also known for its grass roots merengue and its carnival. During the 25th Exposition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/positioning-santiago-as-a-tourism-destination\/\" 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":[294,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180082"}],"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=180082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180162,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180082\/revisions\/180162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}