I see them not! bull shit!

This is bull in its purest form.
Leonel and his henchmen lie while stealing your wallet and all this while smiling.

Why should we believe them:

The fiscal deficit has become a sort of "Tower of Babel" in which nobody knows what the real number is, since each individual, depending on how it is perceived, expounds his numbers in his own way. For the government, the net deficit in the first half of the year is RD$47 billion, as was agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

But the numbers that are presented by economists differ from those of the administration and are also different from one another. The administration says that it is complying with what was agreed to with the IMF; but the economists Arturo Martinez Moya, Jaime Aristy Escuder and Henri Hebrard differ from the administration and among themselves, and each one offers different numbers. For Martinez Moya the deficit is RD$63.838 billion; according to Aristy Escuder it is RD$60 billion and according to Hebrard, it is about RD$33 billion.

The point is that they can report whatever they want. Where are these tourists?

Many don't leave the resort. That might be why you can't see them.

you are doing a great job improving the image of you country with your negative comments.
ask not what your country can do for you
ask what you can do for your country

u want numbers? ok! i was in puerto plata the other day on the weekend. went to fun city it was closed this was on friday. they did open on sat.
went to playa dora get some pizza at the pizza hut my party of 5 and two other people where in their i was their for over 2 hours let me tell u the place was empty, the city was like one morgue
spoke with some guides who hustel the tourists they where telling its real bad
yes i know sept is not a very busy month in the dr or in fact all over is slow.... but its was not good even in season. I DO NOT BELIEVE ANY NUMBERS THE GOVERNMENT PUTS OUT.
XWILL DID MAKE A GOOD COMMENT THAT MANY TOURISTS SAY IN THE HOTEL GROUNDS. LOTS OF JERKS THAT WORK AT THE HOTELS TELL THE TOURISTS NOT TO LEAVE THE HOTEL GROUNDS THAT SOMETHNG BAD MIGHT HAPPEN TO U IF U GO TO THE CITY.

they want the tourists to spend their dollars at the hotel.
i can understand the thoughts behind their coments problem is i have spoken too many tourists and they tell me after hearing "dont go into town u might get hurt' they all told me they will never come back to the dr. they where scared.
most said hey! we got this info., from the horses mouth.
not good i would think they ough to come up with a better idea to keep the tourists at the hotel not tell them they might get killed in town.

you are doing a great job improving the image of you country with your negative comments

read what i wrote its not xwills comment just read above please
my family had a small tour business years ago and i did work for them for 2 years so i know what really goes on in this business
yes u hurt your country with theses stupid comments but these guys just
so crazy to make a few dollars words mean nothing for them or the lack of intelligent words and thoughts.

GREAT 2.22% more people to rob and kill.

Keep them comming so we can steal from them and buy more Brugal and quick girls.

Tourists, Foreigners

STAY AWAY,

Save your life and your money..

Go some where else where it is safe..

Don't become a head line on this web site...

Great.....but how ironic, that the folk that say they don't see the in-flu of visitors coming to DR are in the US...go figure!!

yeah, go away to a better and safer place, like mexico... u will have a lot of fun there!!!

danny
go to Santiago next time... nice women, live music every night, great food...

Hope you like it

thanks...

2.22% increase signifies more tourists coming to the D.R. - not less.

I believe the figures. The D.R. govt. gets this information from the forms the non-residents have to complete in the airport before they depart from the D.R.

The Dominican Republic will survive and maybe even thrive.

xwill7

I plan to spend a couple of days in Santiago when I go down there next month.

Never been there.

Really looking forward to my time in Santiago (and the drive from the north coast through the mountains).

I think the airport taxes are a way to make up for the fact that the majority of tourists go to the all-inclusive resorts, which tend to provide only minimal returns to the country. (Profits go back to their foreign owners, tourists encouraged to stay on site so off-site restaurants, taxis, gift shops and other tourist services get minimal benefits.)