Category : Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic promotes Cruise destination

PUERTO RICO .- The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) continues to redouble its efforts to ensure that more cruise passengers choose the Dominican Republic as their favorite destination and thus surpass the 1.2 million who visited the country last year. In...

Director of CESTUR says security guarantees millions of tourists

The General Director of the Specialized Body for Tourism Security (CESTUR), Pilot Brigade General Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, assured that this institution guarantees the safety of the millions of tourists who choose the Dominican Republic every year...

Acapulco without people in off-season

If you have not gone, at least you have heard that it is one of the most visited spas in La Vega. There’s an elusive beauty known only by those who serve the tilapias and rice and beans under thatched huts; that the pools that form along the Ja...

Dominican Republic’s most pristine beach opens to the world

Santo Domingo.- “The desired sustainable tourism development has arrived in Pedernales province,” with its entry into the tourism industry on the recovered 362 million square meters at Bahia de las Aguilas, within the Jaragua National Par...

Be Live Hotels opens adults only hotel in Punta Cana

A new adult-only tourist complex recently opened the Be Live Hotels chain, which will feature 294 housing units characterized by modernist design. The project is located in Cabeza de Toro, facing the Bávaro lagoon, only 15 minutes from the Punta Cana...

The government will accelerate tourism development of Bahía de las Águilas

The Minister of the Presidency, Gustavo Montalvo, assured that the Dominican Government will accelerate the tourist development process of Bahía de las Águilas, in the Pedernales province, now that the case has been definitively decided in the Suprem...

Public Works has tanks to promote the recycling of garbage in various parts of the country

EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.-The Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) jointly with the RD-VIAL Trust arranged the placement of more than 200 tanks of organic waste, paper, and plastics, in different collectors, installed in sets of t...

Minister of Tourism: Puerto Plata’s moment has arrived

The Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier García said that this moment has arrived for this destination on the north coast of the country, an affirmation evidenced in the numerous vital investments made in recent years in this region. He described th...

Tourism Ministry to build health networks in coastal towns: official

The General Director of the Aqueducts and Sewers Corporation of Puerto Plata (CORAAPPLATA), engineer José Onésimo Reyes Peralta, announced that the Ministry of Tourism has planned to build the health networks of the Costámbar and the El Javillar resi...

Many families spent Christmas in the Colonial Zone

Going to the Colonial Zone, after having spent the long-awaited Christmas Eve dinner in the company of family and friends, was the option of many Dominicans and tourists, with the aim of enjoying leisure, entertainment and the ideal place to share wi...

Hotel occupancy in December and January exceeds the expectations of the sector

Hotel occupancy for Christmas and New Year exceeds the expectations of the tourism sector, which this year has between 2,500 and 3,000 additional rooms. According to estimates of the Executive Vice-President of the National Association of Hotels and...

Dominicans return home to the beat of merengue

Santo Domingo.- The airport authorities gave a warm welcome Thurs. to hundreds of Dominicans, who arrived in the country via Las Americas International Airport to celebrate the yearend holidays. Amid a festive atmosphere of folk music played by a typ...

Dominican Republic to add US$50.0M, 345-room hotel

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.- President Danilo Medina on Thursday headed groundbreaking for the 345-room Infiniti Punta Cana Hotel in Uvero Alto, to be built at a cost of RD$2.5 billion (US$50.0 million). The new hotel is the Caribbean brand of th...

US$30.0M recovery loan great news for the Colonial ‘Zone’

Santo Domingo.- The announced rescue of the Colonial City will continue is the best yearend news for the ears of the Ovando City Association, which groups the business sector in the Americas’ first European city. For Association members Claudio...

The Caribbean’s top destination draws 7.0% more tourists

Santo Domingo.- Central Bank figures show that 485,481 non-resident passengers arrived by air as of November, of which 416,954 correspond to foreigners and 68,527 to non-resident Dominicans, or 7.0% higher than in 2017, keeping the Dominican Republic...