{"id":189858,"date":"2022-11-22T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=189858"},"modified":"2022-11-22T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:37:38","slug":"samana-is-preparing-for-record-occupancies-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/samana-is-preparing-for-record-occupancies-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Samana is preparing for record occupancies in 2023"},"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\/11\/Isabel-Pin\u0303ero-Cayo-Levantado-Diario-Libre-1024x686.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189971\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pi\u00f1ero Group, the largest hotel operator in Samana, and other Samana tourism ventures are bullish on what&#8217;s coming for the northeastern peninsula in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pi\u00f1ero Group announced the Cayo Levantado Resort on the Samana out island will reopen with 200 rooms in the second quarter of 2023. Its emphasis will be on offering a vacation packed with wellness, close caring for the environment and local culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isabel Pi\u00f1ero, chief sustainability officer for the Spanish hotel chain, made the announcement last 18 November 2022. Currently, Bah\u00eda Pr\u00edncipe Hotels &amp; Resorts, owned by Grupo Pi\u00f1ero, has 14 hotels in Punta Cana, La Romana and Saman\u00e1. Pi\u00f1ero spoke of 2023 as a promising year for Samana as a tourist destination. She spoke while hosting the 8th Annual Meeting for the Tourist Development of Samana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the event, the president of the National Association of Hotels and Tourism (Asonahores), Rafael Blanco Tejera said that the construction of the Samana Bayport, located in the city of Santa B\u00e1rbara is advancing and is in the final phase of obtaining the necessary permits to prepare for the arrival of cruise ships. The tender for the converting of the Arroyo Barril cargo port (built in 1977) into a modern cruise and general cargo port is also advancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juan Bancalari, president of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of Saman\u00e1 (Ahetsa), spoke of the remodeling of the Saman\u00e1 boardwalk and other ecological tourism projects in Las Galeras and other zones of the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are very happy with all the investment projects that are coming along to develop this province.&#8221; He also mentioned the preparing of young people to work in the industry, with the National Institute of Technical Professional Formation (Infotep) graduating more than 646 students in one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the presentation, Sharon Mei, general manager of Amber Cove Puerto Plata cruise ship terminal urged the public, private and community in Samana to integrate and work together to improve the experience the visitors will have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/turismo\/2022\/11\/17\/anuncian-reapertura-de-hotel-en-cayo-levantado\/2144313\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 November 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi\u00f1ero Group, the largest hotel operator in Samana, and other Samana tourism ventures are bullish on what&#8217;s coming for the northeastern peninsula in 2023. Pi\u00f1ero Group announced the Cayo Levantado Resort on the Samana out island will reopen with 200 rooms in the second quarter of 2023. Its emphasis will be on offering a vacation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/samana-is-preparing-for-record-occupancies-in-2023\/\" 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\/189858"}],"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=189858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189973,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189858\/revisions\/189973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}