{"id":99411,"date":"2017-05-09T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=99411"},"modified":"2017-05-09T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:31:07","slug":"santo-domingo-seeks-to-host-date-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/santo-domingo-seeks-to-host-date-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo seeks to host DATE 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99413\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99413\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Roberto-Henriquez-Municipios-al-Dia-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Henr\u00edquez \/ Municipios al Dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city of Santo Domingo could well host buyers and suppliers of the tourism industry for the 2018 Dominican Annual Travel Exchange (DATE). Roberto Henr\u00edquez, president of the Santo Domingo Association of Hotels (AHSD), when speaking during a press conference at DATE that was held in Punta Cana 3-5 May 2017, said that Santo Domingo hopes to be chosen as the host city by the National Association of Tourism &amp; Hotels (Asonahores), the organizer of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Henriquez said the host venue would be the new Ministry of Foreign Relations Convention Center located on the Malec\u00f3n or seaside drive in the city. There are many nearby hotels, including the Sheraton, Jaragua and Crowne Plaza Hotels that are on the Malec\u00f3n, not far from the convention center. The Hotel Embajador is also a short distance away from the possible meeting site.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from showcasing new hotels in operation in the \u201cmetropolis of the Caribbean\u201d, the organizers want to show off the renovated Colonial City of Santo Domingo, now more pedestrian friendly with wide sidewalks and 16th century buildings turned into cultural centers, hotels, restaurants and stores. The city also boasts the Pol\u00edgono Central, the commercial and residential area of the city, with its many shopping, restaurants and hotel venues, including the new Embassy Suites, JW Marriot and InterContinental Real.<\/p>\n<p>The AHSD lists 27 first-class hotels with the opening of the new hotels. Meanwhile, older hotels such as the Sheraton, Jaragua Renaissance, Catalonia and others have carried out major renovations.<\/p>\n<p>The city is also a shopping mecca and regular host to leading artistic performers from all around the world, as well as having the largest collection of restaurants in a Caribbean city.<\/p>\n<p>Henr\u00edquez highlighted that the occupancy rate of major hotels in the capital city has risen considerably. He attributes this to more meetings being held in the Santo Domingo. Henr\u00edquez would like Santo Domingo to become the country\u2019s leading Meetings, Incentives and Convention and Events (MICE) destination, a position at present held by Punta Cana.<\/p>\n<p>The Santo Domingo hosting of DATE would coincide with the new creation of the city\u2019s Convention Bureau, to be headed by Thelma Mart\u00ednez, formerly director of marketing for Asonahores, and who for years has been responsible for the organization of DATE.<\/p>\n<p>As a warm-up for the 2018 DATE, AHSD is organizing Destino Capital, and as part of the event\u2019s agenda will include the MITM Americas International Fair, from 14-17 November 2017 at the El Embajador Royal Hideaway Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanto Domingo is in its best moment and we want to take advantage of this,\u201d Henr\u00edquez speaking during the DATE press conference.<\/p>\n<p>9 May 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Santo Domingo could well host buyers and suppliers of the tourism industry for the 2018 Dominican Annual Travel Exchange (DATE). Roberto Henr\u00edquez, president of the Santo Domingo Association of Hotels (AHSD), when speaking during a press conference at DATE that was held in Punta Cana 3-5 May 2017, said that Santo Domingo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/santo-domingo-seeks-to-host-date-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99411"}],"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=99411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}