Category : Touristic guide

Everybody pitches in to rid Cabarete beach of seaweed

Puerto Plata.- The concern over the bunches of seaweed that washed ashore Cabarete beach prompted local business leaders with the support of the tourism authorities to conduct a cleanup operation. Last week numerous citizens had denounced the onslaug...

A Punta Cana resort reaches solar energy milestone

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.- The Punta Cana-Macao Energy Consortium, S.A. (CEPM) on Mon. signed a contract to supply, for the first time, energy from a solar (photovoltaic) source to a hotel complex, which is operated by Karisma Hotels & Res...

Dominican Republic reached a record 6.6M tourists in 2018

Santo Domingo.- The Central Bank on Fri. said the Dominican Republic reached the “historic figure” of 6,568,888 tourists in 2018 with 381,346 more travelers than 2017. This year-on-year growth of 6.2% brings the country closer to the gove...

Dominican Rep. again confirms its ‘mini-continent’ label

Constanza, Dominican Republic.- Cold has become frigid in the Valle Nuevo National Park again this week, as below-freezing temperatures were recorded in the protected area near the highland town of Constanza, while just 20 miles south at Calderas bay...

This was Punta Cana 38 years ago

The most important tourist destination in the Dominican Republic 38 years ago was very different from what it is today. You would never imagine that in 1981 Punta Cana had challenging access. Its roads were unpaved and the offer of accommodation was...

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...