Category : Touristic guide

Hoteliers tout the Capital to Colombians, announce new flight

Bogota.- In collaboration with the Tourism Promotion Office (OPT) in Colombia, Santo Domingo’s hoteliers showcased the capital’s tourist attractions in the ANATO 2019 Tourism Showcase and announced a new flight. A Tourism Ministry press r...

Dominican pavilion in Berlin looks to draw more German tourists

Berlin.- Deputy Tourism minister Fausto Fernandez on n Wed. opened Dominican Republic’s pavilion at Berlin’s 53rd annual International Tourism Exchange (ITB) held from today until Sunday. The Dominican Republic seeks to increase the arriv...

Expert sees gloom and doom for mountains, beaches

Santo Domingo.- Bahía de las Águilas is one of the Dominican Republic’s beaches doomed to disappear in the next 50 years from the effects of climate change, National Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism Council (CNCCMDL) technical dir...

The capital’s Malecon closed to ready for Carnival Parade

Santo Domingo.- A stretch of the seaside avenue, Malecón, will be closed as of today to prepare for next Sunday’s National Carnival Parade 2019. In a press release the Culture Ministry said starting 2pm Friday traffic will be closed from the &...

Boom-to-bust SW town pins hopes on tourism promise

Pedernales, Dominican Republic.- The province’s mining potential established by Alcoa Aluminum in 1945, brought with it economic bonanza to the town of the same name. However 74 years later, Pedernales (southwest) has become one of the poorest...

Waste water dumped into rivers 50+ years, but hope is coming

Santo Domingo.- Santo Domingo Aqueduct Utility (CAASD), director Alejandro Montás, warned Tues. that waste water is being dumped into the country’s rivers for over 50 years, harming the environment. He said waste water from the Haina, Ozama, Is...

Dominican Republic gets a high-end US$1.0B+ golf resort

San Juan, Dominican Republic.- US ambassador Robin S. Bernstein, said Thurs. that the Dominican Republic not only shares the same values and good practices of fair and equal treatment with investors, but has the advantage of having a Free Trade Agr...

Imposing French yacht visits Bahia de Las Aguilas beach

Pedernales, Dominican Republic.- The luxury French-registry yacht Le Ponant anchored off Bahia de Las Aguilas beach in southwestern Pedernales with 58 passengers and 34 crew, the Tourism Ministry said in a statement Monday. It stressed the importance...

Santo Domingo’s Carnival Parade set for Feb. 24

Santo Domingo.- Mayor David Collado on Wed. announced the celebration of Santo Domingo’s Carnival Parade on Sunday February 24, with more than 100 floats, dozens of troupes and individual characters representing the barrios and sectors of the c...

La Vega, Santiago kick off raucous carnivals

Santiago.- The North region’s major cities, as in every February, were on Sunday the venues for the colorful parades of their carnivals, where Santiago and La Vega stand out as tradition for the tens of thousands of people who take over the str...

Seaborne Airlines resumes San Juan-Santiago route

Santiago.- Cibao International Airport (AIC), announced Friday that Seaborne Airlines will resume operations covering the San Juan-Santiago route, from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Monday, Wednesday a...

Gov. seeks strategy to bolster security in tourist regions

Santo Domingo.- Tourism minister Francisco Javier García on Wed. headed the first meeting of the Presidential Commission which works to devise a strategy to strengthen security in the country’s tourist regions. García and the officials discusse...

Appointment with humpbacks

February is the recommended month to watch the Queens of the Atlantic, the colossal humpback whales that visit us every year to mate and breed in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Although they begin to arrive at the end of December, it is in Februar...

From bass fishing to mountain biking; NE province beckons tourists

Cotui, Dominican Republic.- Breathtaking mountains, ideal for hiking, lush forests, the Caribbean’s largest reservoir, various Taíno caverns and an important source of irrigation water are some of the reasons why Sánchez Ramírez was declared an...

Dominican Republic’s beach towers of conflict, coincidence

Santo Domingo.- A year and three months after it was adopted the Tourism Ministry on Thurs. published the controversial resolution 002/2017 that extends the number of floors permitted in high rises at the Punta Cana-Bávaro-Macao region, increasing t...