President Luis Abinader highlighted the importance of travel agents, tour operators and cruise chains for Dominican tourism, for what this sector represents for the economy.
in a meeting with tour operators, travel agents, airlines, hotel chains and cruise executivesIn Miami, Florida, the Dominican president thanked the trust placed by them in the country and said that it The best of tourism in the Dominican Republic is yet to come.
Regarding Punta Canaexpressed that it is a locomotive that does not stop and that in the next few days it will have a amusement park, new golf courses, hotel and mortgage projects that extend up to Michesin the province of El Seibo, where hotels will be developed and work is being done on the infrastructure for it.
The governor stated that another commitment to the sector is the project Punta Bergatin, Puerto Platawith which the entire north coast will be relaunched with Cinema studios in partnership with Vin Dieselinnovation centers and a Planet Hollywood hotel.
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He ratified his confidence in tourism and that its development can reach all sectors, from those who develop projects to taxis, agricultural producers and the Dominican industries that produce what reaches the hotels.
“And today we not only want to thank you, but also to tell you that you and the tourists that you take there (to the Dominican Republic) are extremely important and that is why we are going to take care of you and we are going to follow you up so that you have the best experiences in our country. ”he expressed.
He said that it is because of the confidence shown by the actors in the tourism sector that work is being done to develop the destination of Pedernales, with an exceptional white sand beach where you can enter up to a kilometer and the water will remain shallow.
He announced that the development of this enclave will be less density than the other poles due to the characteristics of the area, which are close to the 60% as a national parkfor which a sustainable intervention.
He recalled that on February 5 the construction of the first two hotels and then it will start with the new airport. At the end of this year, red cape will have a port for cruise passengers can visit the destination.
“I said, when we were inaugurating the first infrastructure works in Pedernales, that in five years this destiny would change, in ten it would be unrecognizable, and in twenty it will be a model of growth for the entire region,” manifested.
He announced that it will also be equipped with new port for cruise ships to Samaná and expansion of Amber Cove and Taino Bay in Puerto Plata to receive more tourists, because he believes in cruise tourism and in the Dominican Republic as the best destination in America.
In the field of cultural tourism, highlighted the intervention of the Colonial city with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, and The Historic Isabela, the first point touched by Christopher Columbus on Dominican soil. everything will be done too a route through which the colonizers crossed to diversify the offer to visitors “because the Dominican Republic is more than beaches”.
