{"id":207000,"date":"2023-11-21T07:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=207000"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:10:35","slug":"president-abinader-inaugurates-cayo-levantado-resort-in-samana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/21\/president-abinader-inaugurates-cayo-levantado-resort-in-samana\/","title":{"rendered":"President Abinader inaugurates Cayo Levantado resort in Samana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe-1024x687.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207039\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe-1536x1031.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Cayo-Levantado-Resort-Bahia-Principe.png 1618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader was in Samana on Friday, 17 November 2023 to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Pi\u00f1ero Group\u2019s Cayo Levantado islet property in Samana Bay. The Spanish hotel chain renovated the luxury resort\u2019s 218-room hotel at Cayo Levantado in Samana Bay and reopened to customers this summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the event, President Abinader noted that the EUR$50 million investment carried out by the Spanish hotel group in the renovation is part of US$4.1 billion in Foreign Direct Investment foreign companies have injected into projects in the Dominican Republic so far this year. President Abinader said the forecast is for FDI to reach US$4.4 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abinader also mentioned that his administration is investing RD$1.7 billion in the Samana Bay region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit of President Abinader to Samana, he was accompanied by Tourism Minister David Collado. Collado announced the government is investing RD$1.74 billion in 22 projects in the northeastern Samana province. Of these, 15 are in the municipality of Samana city, including improvements to the Atlantic Ocean-fronting boulevard facing Samana Bay. Another seven projects are underway in the municipality of Las Terrenas on the peninsula&#8217;s north side. Road projects for RD$48 million in Las Terrenas were mentioned there. The works in Samana are expected to be concluded by December 2023 and February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahia-principe.com\/es\/hoteles-en-republica-dominicana\/cayo-levantado-resort\">Grupo Pi\u00f1ero <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitur.gob.do\/noticias\/abinader-espera-inversion-extranjera-llegara-a-400-millones-de-dolares\/\">Mitur <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/pais\/abinader-preve-inversion-extranjera-llegara-a-us-4400-millones-este-ano\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 November 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader was in Samana on Friday, 17 November 2023 to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Pi\u00f1ero Group\u2019s Cayo Levantado islet property in Samana Bay. The Spanish hotel chain renovated the luxury resort\u2019s 218-room hotel at Cayo Levantado in Samana Bay and reopened to customers this summer. Speaking at the event, President Abinader noted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/21\/president-abinader-inaugurates-cayo-levantado-resort-in-samana\/\" 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":[318,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207000"}],"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=207000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207041,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207000\/revisions\/207041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}