The next phase in DR's tourism development is conquering the challenges and opportunities for internal or domestic based tourism options. The All-Inclusive vehicle will still be used, but the future product involves this far more lucrative option as it offers the possibilities to spread out the flow of visitor's cash directly to the Dominican small merchants community and population in general. But the DR State will need to provide better safety and secure a better educational option for its young people.

How much of the $200MM will come in briefcases full of bennies?

WP,

No matter as long as they are used in D.R.!

NOT ONLY IN D.R.
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201....e-banks-13-billion-in-income.html

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There is so much traffic in SD that I just avoid it when ever I can!

If you believe this horse poop I have a bridge to sell you.

1000000 dollars for 1 room? That is unheard of even in resorts.

Who in the name of hell is REAL Hotel??????

Price per room: $1,000,000 , it will take $10,000 to build per room and the rest to pay off the corrupt officials

This is exactly the kind of investment the capital needs if you don’t mind:

Lack of health care,

Lack of education,

Lack of personal security,

Lack of adequate sewage systems just to name a few,
And if you don’t mind the hordes of desperate, semi-literate, youth discovering the drug trade as the only way to “survive” or get a shot at the “good live.”

So onward with the feeding of resources to the 'Tourism Industrial Complex" at the expense of the general quality of life for all!

PS

And for those that pray at the Altar of Tourism for salivation from poverty:

“Economist Miguel Ceara says tourism has generated more poverty than wealth”

Just as Dread has always said!

http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....rado-mas-pobreza-que-riqueza.html

In other news about Not Needed Hotels;


"By "coincidence" Diandino Peña's hotel is favoured with new designation as a "tourist destination"

"Diandino Peña’s building could have several tax exemptions of up to 100%!"

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic-A "coincidence" is playing in favor of Diandino Peña, powerful government official and trusted friend of President Leonel Fernandez. His 26-story Diandy XX tower was transformed so that it is also a hotel, and by “luck” and "coincidence" the area where the Polygon rises, in the central urban zone of the Dominican capital, was recently turned into a "tourist destination" illegally by the Ministry of tourism Francisco Javier Garcia and the tourism promotion Council (Confotur).

All three “men” are powerful members of Political committee of the PLD or as I like to called it the Dominican Cosa-Nostra.


So I guess the announcement of the 'Real Hotel" is not REAL since they would not encourage competition against themselves.

Oh, you can read more about this 'little" illegal project here:

http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....ece-con-nuevo-polo-turistico.html

Josie once again promotes his anti-growth, anti-business, anti-freedom agenda.

I guess she won't be happy until everyone uses gas lamps for light and telegrams for communication.

See Toñito you have troulbe understanding this:

"no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he has so sell himself"

Rousseau

They day you do you will become a Man!

A meesage to those who swear that neo-liberalism is a once size fits all strategy

The rebellion of economists

"In November students at Harvard left as block an introduction to economy class, to protest against the teaching of a "single economic thought". The teacher was the known Gregory Mankiw, ex - Bush Adviser and author of a popular textbook for teaching of the economics. This movement is being repeated in many universities in the world."

http://www.microsofttranslator.co....fapp%2farticle.aspx%3fid%3d112306

More good news for the neo-liberalist!

"A structural economic problem"

"When you decide to examine President Leonel Fernandez fixation on talking about his alleged "achievements" which have created such a general state of well-being, you arrive at the conclusions that is better not to list them.

When you examine a statistical time series on domestic consumption in relation to the Dominican GDP, you are met with a shocking conclusion. Dominicans consume more than what we produce.

In 8 Years, consumption reached 83 per cent of GDP.

Thus, the jump that Leonel speaks of is a leap into the void, because he governs a nation that is not saving but rather a nation that requires debt to sustain their consumption and thus the growth of GDP."

http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=112307

must be dreadful for some people to receive good news about the DR such as new roads, new hotels, better airports and even three giant new years eve parties coming up very soon ,
I am not much of a fan of that square between Tiridentes and Churchill and kennedy and 27 Febrero ,,but I can see how another hotel may be needed there

"must be dreadful for some people to receive good news"

"Good news" for who is the question Spinmaster!

Written by: josean,

"...you have troulbe[ sic, recte trouble] understanding this:

"no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he has so sell himself"

Rousseau

They day you do you will become a Man!"

Josean, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. Your fascination with equality of outcome will not a nation nor society make rich and prosperous. I agree that some decent level of education (K-12, with merit based college opportunities), health care (pre-natal to full time student with universal coverage for all, security for all. But the right to property and for opportunities to prosper to one's talent , associations, and luck are the condiciones sine quibus non that create a prosperous nation-state. You may be well intentioned, but you lack historical gravitas and practical knowledge human motivation. To wit:

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote:

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."


And Aristotle's Politics discussed the nature of self interest in Book II, Part V

"Again, how immeasurably greater is the pleasure, when a man feels a thing to be his own; for surely the love of self is a feeling implanted by nature and not given in vain, although selfishness is rightly censured; this, however, is not the mere love of self, but the love of self in excess, like the miser's love of money; for all, or almost all, men love money and other such objects in a measure. And further, there is the greatest pleasure in doing a kindness or service to friends or guests or companions, which can only be rendered when a man has private property."

Time for you to get beyond your GED level status. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus

Both Bernie Madoff and most of the "learned" people he screwed, like you, I am sure went beyond my “GED level status :) !"

At least I saved money by not going to college and becoming STUPID!

Famous, Rich, and Successful People

Who Were High School or College Dropouts


http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/

@xwill7
"There is so much traffic in SD that I just avoid it when ever I can!"

It'll certainly take care of that problem when the Metro is totally constructed.

@Ricardolito... "must be dreadful for some people to receive good news about the DR"

No matter how good it is, they'll always find fault in it!..... Pessimists will never be disappointed!

Josean

You refer to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of "Le contrat social" (1762).

It's about values of a society etc etc.

27 years later the French Revolution happened.

Keep this book off the shelves, and make sure people can't understand it, because Leo's and Marie-Antoinette lifestyles present many similarities.

Precisely Walt, precisely!