Category : Touristic guide

Seaborne Airlines resumes San Juan-Santiago route

Santiago.- Cibao International Airport (AIC), announced Friday that Seaborne Airlines will resume operations covering the San Juan-Santiago route, from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Monday, Wednesday a...

Gov. seeks strategy to bolster security in tourist regions

Santo Domingo.- Tourism minister Francisco Javier García on Wed. headed the first meeting of the Presidential Commission which works to devise a strategy to strengthen security in the country’s tourist regions. García and the officials discusse...

Appointment with humpbacks

February is the recommended month to watch the Queens of the Atlantic, the colossal humpback whales that visit us every year to mate and breed in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Although they begin to arrive at the end of December, it is in Februar...

From bass fishing to mountain biking; NE province beckons tourists

Cotui, Dominican Republic.- Breathtaking mountains, ideal for hiking, lush forests, the Caribbean’s largest reservoir, various Taíno caverns and an important source of irrigation water are some of the reasons why Sánchez Ramírez was declared an...

Dominican Republic’s beach towers of conflict, coincidence

Santo Domingo.- A year and three months after it was adopted the Tourism Ministry on Thurs. published the controversial resolution 002/2017 that extends the number of floors permitted in high rises at the Punta Cana-Bávaro-Macao region, increasing t...

Canada Jetlines announces Samaná, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo flights

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canada Jetlines Ltd. (JET: TSX-V) (JETMF: OTCQB) (the “Company” or “Jetlines”) is pleased to announce it intends to provide future service to several sun destinations in the Dominican Republic including...

Health tourism associations pact enhances Iberoamerican medical travel

Press Release Madrid.- The Dominican Health Tourism Association -ADTS- and its counterpart in Spaincares signed a collaboration agreement to enhance Iberoamerican medical travel. At the country’s stand at the International Tourism Fair -FITUR 2...

Govt. wants strategy to bolster tourism security

Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina on Mon. ordered the Tourism Ministry to coordinate a diagnosis by several government agencies on the challenges facing tourism security and propose a strategy to strengthen safety at tourism resorts and destina...

Announced in Spain’s Tourism Fair: 7 new hotels, Iberia promotion

Madrid.- The Dominican Republic took full advantage of its status as a partner country of the 39th annual of Spain’s International Tourism Fair (Fitur), held from January 23 to 27 in Madrid. Announced in the event was an investment for the cons...

Dominican flavor in Spain’s Tourism Fair

Madrid.- Spain’s 39th annual International Tourism Fair ended Sunday with “total success” according to organizers, and 11% higher participation than the previous year. This event brought together 886 exhibitors and 10,500 companies...

Dominican Republic to get nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for US$200M

Madrid.- The groups Velutini and IEMCA on Fri. announced a joint tourism development project in Playa Dorada, Puerto Plata, of 1,012 rooms on the north coast to be built at a cost of US$100 million. In a meeting with Tourism minister Francisco Javier...

It’s time to develop the South’s tourism, really

Madrid.- Despite the kneejerk expression “the time for the South has arrived,” Tourism minister Francisco Javier García on Thursday announced that an multisector commission prepares an international tender whose goal is to promote tourism...

Local golfers give compatriots a reason to cheer: Yahoo

La Romana, Dominican Republic.- “They’re not sleeping in their own beds, but for the nine golfers from the Dominican Republic, the fact that the Latin America Amateur Championship is being played at Casa de Campo makes this, in most every other...

Austria, Dominican Tourism forge a partnership

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s Tourism Promotion Office (OPT) in Germany announced Mon. that its designation as official partner country in Austria’s Ferien Messe Wien in Jan. 2020, where it seeks to continue consolidating that ma...

Dominican Republic Catholics flock to site of reverence

Higuey, Dominican Republic.- Tens thousands of Catholic faithful across the country today Monday, celebrate the traditional Our Lady of La Altagracia Day, considered the protective and spiritual mother of the Dominican people. Thousands of devotees f...