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SANTO DOMINGO.- Although they expect profits of US$4.0 billion this year, or two percent higher than last year, the hotels and restaurants grouped in Asonahores yesterday asked the Government to let the dollar’s exchange rate float, to make the Dominican tourism industry more competitive than those of the other Caribbean countries.

Asonahores vice-president Arthur Villanueva affirmed that the global crisis will affect all sectors, for which the tourism industry and the Government must work together to ease that impact.

He asked the Government to strengthen the industry to prevent what took place with the free zones.

Villanueva also complained that the hoteliers haven’t been taken into account in the commission designated to studies the energy system’s problems, and stressed that country has the most expensive kilowatt-hour in all the Americas, for which the Government must look for a feasible solution.

He said Asonahores proposed that the Government include them in the category of non-regulated users.

According to the Central Bank the number of nonresident Dominican and foreign tourists arriving in the country has been falling since July -reaching a high of 10.4 percent in September and October- after an average rise of 6 percent until June.

SOURCE: diariolibre.com

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Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 17 Dec 2008 11:16 AM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
the writing is on the wall ....it is just a matter of time
Written by: danny00, 17 Dec 2008 6:37 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
as you said its only a matter of time, and the clock is ticking..... hold on to your pesos.... or even better your dollars....
Written by: chillaxin201 This user is banned, 17 Dec 2008 8:21 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
wow! 4B we should nationalize
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 17 Dec 2008 8:40 PM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
yeah chill just like the electricity....that works....more deadwood employees with bad attitudes en el país de las maravillas
Written by: dreadlocks, 18 Dec 2008 12:15 AM
From: United States
let us crunch some numbers here; hmmm.. lets see. they expect a 2% rise in profits this year, over last year. do they expect a busier tourist season? i guess the news of the international recession has been kept a secret from them. or, maybe they will realise these profits by lowering input prices? such as electricity? or, maybe they will increase the price of the products, which is always a good strategy when demand is falling. i am perplexed, really.
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 18 Dec 2008 1:57 AM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
you are perpetually perplexed exalted one from caricom shores really
Written by: dreadlocks, 18 Dec 2008 8:20 AM
From: United States
i am perplexed because i have the powers to reason, combined with a knowledge of the subject matter. to you, they might just as well have put a cartoon figure instead of the text of the article, since yourself and knowlege are like east and west; never the twain shall meet.
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 24 Dec 2008 6:32 AM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
like I said the ugly writing is on the wall....The DR has 60 thousand hotel rooms to fill on the entire Island and travel and tourism is hurting....to put that in perspective there is a little city in Nevada called Las Vegas that will soon open its 150 thousandth room in one town....talk about competition....then there is that quaint little town Orlando with about 100 thousand plus rooms thrown into the mix as well....go figure...and they are not going to put those cruise ships in mothballs either.....this government is not telling the truth about economic stability in 2009....devaluation will soon rear its ugly head
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