The Icelandic tour operator FiTravel made its first flight from Reykjavik to Punta Cana airportafter more than a decade of suspending flights from Iceland, reported yesterday the Ministry of Tourism.
Flight FI1047 arrived at the airport terminal with 182 passengers, including Thórunn Reynisdóttir, CEO of FiTravel, an agency that is studying the possibility of carrying out several frequencies during the fall of 2022.
FiTravel is a leading group of companies in the Icelandic market, which operates under the Urval Utsyn, Sumarferdir and Plus Ferdir brands in the issuing market, and works with the incoming Welcome Incoming Services of the Avoris Corporación Empresarial group, managed in the Dominican Republic by José Alarcón , who was present at the flight welcome.
The tourists They arrived in the Boeing 757-256, with a capacity of 187 seats of the Icelandair airline, which was received to the rhythm of merengue by the folkloric ballet of the Ministry of Tourismdirected by Oscar Batista.
Jarolin de la Cruz, director of the Tourism Promotion Office (OPT) Scandinavia, said that the interest in traveling to the Dominican Republic from the Nordic countries shows a potentially favorable growth.
“We hope that this initiative from a market that was absent for more than 10 years can represent support for the objective of our Ministry of Tourism to continue the reactivation of the tourism through the diversification of air routes, in order to pick up the country’s economy even more,” said De la Cruz.
