{"id":52154,"date":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/pushing-for-brazil\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","slug":"pushing-for-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/pushing-for-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing for Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during DATE, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia said that the Ministry was working closely with Aerodom, operators of the Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata airports, on a plan to stay ahead in keeping and securing new airlift to the DR. <\/p>\n<p>He announced efforts to attract more Brazilian travelers who currently visit on charters or making a stop in Miami. He said that a recent photo of President Leonel Fernandez in a paternal embrace with President Lula da Silva of Brazil was just perfect for promoting a new awareness of the Dominican Republic in Brazil. &#8220;If those close feelings exist, it is logical that we should increase our efforts in Brazil,&#8221; he said. He said a promotional campaign has been designed for penetrating the Brazilian market.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics indicate that 100 million Brazilians have reached the purchasing power status to take a Caribbean vacation. <\/p>\n<p>Ken Hassard of Aerodom has announced an initiative aimed at convincing Brazilian low-cost carrier Gol to travel to the DR. Brazilians are regarded as free-spending tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during DATE, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia said that the Ministry was working closely with Aerodom, operators of the Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata airports, on a plan to stay ahead in keeping and securing new airlift to the DR. He announced efforts to attract more Brazilian travelers who currently visit on charters or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/pushing-for-brazil\/\" 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":[241,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52154"}],"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=52154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}