When the development project flints has completed its fourth phase, it is estimated that the international Airport projected to be built in that border province will receive 963,155 passengers international, a number higher than the non-resident travelers who arrived in 2019 by the International Airport of the Cibao, which was 707,019.
The images with the design of the terminal, printed in a 377-page book that contains the Tourism Development Plan of red cape, flintsThey are avant-garde. They are far from the poverty that many families have today in that province, considered among the three poorest in the Dominican Republic.
The shape of the designed airport is inspired by the sea turtles that nest on the coast of flintsand its other spaces also collect the fauna and flora of the area of red capewhere the dry forest prevails.
The idea of a international Airport in flints it was also promoted in the past administration of PLD Danilo Medina, who also announced a tourism development project that was never executed.
Now, in the management of the PRM Luis Abinader, it is projected that, when 3,000 hotel rooms are built in a first phase, by the airport of flints 240,788 would arrive passengers international. The number includes an average of 14.6% of non-resident Dominicans.
In a second phase, with 6,000 rooms, the number of international arrivals would increase to 481,577; in the third, with 9,000, there would be 722,366, and in the last phase, for which 963,155 travelers are expected, there would be 12,000 rooms.
Estimates are based on an annual occupancy rate of 80% and an average length of stay of 8.52 days.
Currently, the international Airport of Punta Cana is the one that most passengers international terminal receives for being located in the internationally recognized destination Punta Cana. In 2019, 3,524,435 arrived through this terminal passengers non-residents (1.4% Dominicans).
Freight transport
In terms of being an air cargo transportation hub, the international Airport from flints It would be mid-range, adjacent to the Puerto Plata and La Romana terminals, according to the development plan.
The airports of Las Américas and Punta Cana will continue to lead.
The development project of red cape It will be done through the public-private partnership trust scheme.
The executive director of the General Directorate of Public-Private Partnerships (Dgapp), Sigmund Freund, has said that the State will have a 66% stake in the trust, due to the weight of the cost of the land that will be contributed and where it will be built. the hotels, the shopping center and other areas of interest.
Just as the Danilo Medina government did in 2020, the current Abinader government presented its development plan for flints at the International Fair of sightseeing (Fitur) that was held in January in Madrid, Spain, to obtain investments.
