{"id":24166,"date":"2009-10-09T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/costs-trap-hotels\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:43:56","slug":"costs-trap-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/10\/09\/costs-trap-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Costs trap hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The high cost of energy is one of the main problems affecting the hotel industry in the Dominican Republic, and it is preventing hotels from taking a more competitive stance, according to Haydee Kuret de Rainieri, president of the National Hotel and Restaurant Association (ASONAHORES).<\/p>\n<p> The leading hotelier said that as much as 20% of the cost of a room was going towards electricity, despite the fact that many, if not most, hotels have generators for their own electricity. At US$0.24 kw\/h, hotels are spending too much on electricity. In the Bavaro-Punta Cana area, these costs are as much as 15% of the cost of a room and in Samana the cost is as much as 20-22%, and in Puerto Plata, energy costs make up two or three dollars per day per person (in Samana it is $7.00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high cost of energy is one of the main problems affecting the hotel industry in the Dominican Republic, and it is preventing hotels from taking a more competitive stance, according to Haydee Kuret de Rainieri, president of the National Hotel and Restaurant Association (ASONAHORES). The leading hotelier said that as much as 20% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/10\/09\/costs-trap-hotels\/\" 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":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24166"}],"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=24166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}