Yeah frank Rainieri met him frank young man of 24 years, he would tell him: “Have vision, have perseverance, work hard, be honest, maintain your values and do not forget that the country you were born in is the one you have to fight for.”
This was stated by the founder of the Cluster Puntacana and one of the creators and developers of Punta Cana as destination tourist, frank Rainieriin the podcast “Three Responses” of the former president of Colombia, Iván Duque, where they talked about the business and personal history of Rainieri and how he became who he is today.
In a conversation, the former Colombian president and Rainieri reviewed the history of the founding of what is known today as Cluster Puntacana and the operation of tourism that reaches the east of the country.
He assured, in response to how many jobs what is in the entire area that covers Punta Canawhich “generates approximately 14% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Dominican Republic”.
“The entire development was a product of investment private. Since they did not give us support, we had to build the aqueducts, the energy system, which is the one that operates best in the country (…) We had to do everything; “We hoteliers built the first road,” he stated. “We were entrepreneurs with not only a business vision, but social“, he stated.
About the secret to being responsible with the aroundthe community and the company, revealed that “we (businessmen) cannot allow society to be left behind and we to grow.”
He explained that the term businessmanor entrepreneur, cannot be limited to a business. “Businessmen have to be people of change social and environmental. And in the 21st century, the businessman who does not understand that his responsibility is not only to generate economic wealth for his partners and for himself, he is lost.
“We have to be entities of change social and environmental, we cannot let the politicians dictate the changes, we have to make them so that the Government regulates, facilitates and guides” he said.
How he built the family
Duke confessed to Rainieri his admiration for family that I had, because they share the same dreamfeeling socialsimplicity and “greatness of being sensitive to others,” said the former president.
He responded that when he met his wife Haydée, he saw that they both had similar visions of life “where responsibility social It was very important, but I also saw that she was willing to fight with me and leave everything for that dream mine”.
“That’s what my children saw from their birth: that commitment social and environmental. I have always said that my children were not raised in luxury, I taught them that simplicity and humility are the basis of life and that with that you build a better future for your children and family” he certified.
To end the conversation, Duque asked him what he would say if he met the frank Rainieri 24 years old, to which he replied:
“Have vision, have perseverance“Work hard, be honest, keep your values and don’t forget that the country you were born in is the one you have to fight for.”
“That’s what we’ve done haydée and me Throughout our lives: we have worked not only thinking about ourselves but also about our country growing and prospering. The more people can join the middle class and the more people can live with dignity, we will have a better future and a better country. And there is no better country in the world than the one where you are born and where you grow up,” he concluded.
