With the intention of promoting the employment of women, youth and the creation of micro-enterprises, through family farming, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Tourism yesterday launched an inclusion project, which also seeks to strengthen the value chain of the tourism sector.
The project, which will be financed by the FAO, will have a investment of US$220 thousandand will take place in the provinces of Pedernales, Samaná, Monte Cristi and La Altagracia.
It seeks that through institutional agreements and the strengthening of the association of farmers, training and access to focused microcredit, it is possible to articulate the demand of the tourism sector with the offer of products and services of the associations, cooperatives and rural MSMEsin order to produce and generate more jobs.
at launch Rodrigo CastanedaFAO representative in the country, said that today the country has the challenge of rebuilding tourism better than before: making it more sustainable, fairer, promoting non-traditional rural destinations and creating more resilient livelihoods for rural communities.
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The activity was attended by the president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), Raphael White Tejerawho was asked about the regulations that room rentals would have through the Airbnb platform starting in August, about which he said that there would be more than 80 thousand rooms that would be regulated.
He said that what will be done is to regulate an important tourist offer, to maintain the quality of what is offered in the country.
“It is to formalize the participation of this segment of tourist offer, both from the fiscal point of view, as from the regulations of the Ministry of Tourism”, he reiterated.
He stated that this sector has been regulated throughout the world. He said that they will pay the Itbis just like the others.
