Tuesday, January 20, 2009



For the hotelier Frank Rainieri there’s a need to turn this city into an attractive community for tourism so it serves as an important complementary offer, and called on all the local organizations and the government to work to approve a Strategic Development Plan 2010-2020.

In a conference with business and community leaders, and authorities Rainieri suggested that bishop Nicanor Peña, with the support of the La Altagracia Tourism Cluster, immediately convene the presidents of all provincial organizations to an assembly to choose the Strategic Development Council and a Technical Committee to immediately begin the work for the Strategic Plan.


Rainieri said the experience of the Puerto Plata and Santiago Tourism clusters with the Strategic Development Plan 2000-2010 has been positive, and asked that they be taken into account and to apply them to Higuey’s reality.


He said since tourism is the region’s main economic activity, the La Altagracia Tourism Cluster must work to organize and bring all the industry’s sectors together, to break with the idea that the Government must provide everything.


The president of the Group Cana Punta added that the project “Higuey 21st Century” must count on a budget contributed by all the participant organizations in accordance with their possibilities, because “it’s good that it costs something to us all, to feel that we are owners and committed to it.”

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