Tuesday, May 27, 2008


Tourism receipts guarantee new investment in hoteliers and real estate.

The projections in the tourism sector for these next four years are framed within the National Plan for Comprehensive Development of Tourism, developed in 2000, including more investment in infrastructure, diversification of supply and increased income from tourists and foreign exchange for the country.

Felix Jimenez, secretary of Tourism, said that the plan focuses on strengthening the competitiveness Dominican tourism, from monitoring the investment in infrastructure in tourist areas, involving roads, sanitation systems, refurbishing, signage, improved services security, sanitation rates, strengthening the promotion of the Dominican Republic abroad, the levels of training and approval in Congress of the law creating the National Institute for Tourism Development (Indetur).

Jimenez said that the intention is that by 2012 five million tourists visited the Dominican Republic, 4.4 million are international visitors, that the economy is capable of generating more than five billion dollars a year in income from tourism and ensure hotel and real estate investments to reach the eight billion dollars. Infrastructure investments will be carried out in Barahona, Luperon, Miches, Cabrera, San Juan River, Sosua, Cabarete, Puerto Plata, La Isabela, Montecristi, La Romana, Juan Dolio and Boca Chica, among other mountain areas of the country.

"The plan we are pursuing is to turn the Dominican Republic as a whole in the tourist destination other than the beach enclaves" says Jimenez, after which provides relieve develop roads Monción, Sajoma, Janice, Juncalito, Jarabacoa, Constanza and Ocoa. He said he had designed the mountain tourist inns and working on the refurbishment of Hostels Mountain, as the Hotel Mountain, mansion of San Jose de las Matas, housing project Ercilia Pepín of Jarabacoa and New hotel Switzerland Constanza.

The Secretariat also works in the design of plans to illuminate the monuments of the colonial city of Santo Domingo, along with the council's National District, with the aim of promoting cultural tourism. "We are pushing an agenda for development that goes beyond what has been the traditional," he says.

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