F. J. Garcia, Maimon Cruise Port
Santo Domingo.- Despite the voices of doom and gloom over Puerto Plata’s tourism future, the Dominican Government wagers on a "boom" as that province has never seen, but with a “sort of code” of conduct.
Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia affirms that the forecast boom will be even greater than during the area’s hotels best period, and will come hand in hand with the millions in investments he says are imminent.
The official, speaking in a tourism fair in Paris, said the thrust will be the result of the joint promotion by the government and the private sector, starting with the around 400,000 cruise passengers which he affirms will be visiting Puerto Plata within two years, to Carnival Cruises terminal, whose construction starts in around 20 days.
"Now, while these cruisers arrive we will work on an awareness and education campaign and an agreement on a sort of code by all sectors so that when they get all those tourists and cruise passengers, not have a repeat of the problems again which occurred 25 years ago and resulted in Puerto Plata’s losing the cruise ship visits, which hadn’t returned until now.”
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Excelente set the example....do not allow garrapata tour guide sindicato to operate....POP is a great historic. Port with a flavour unlike any other in the DR......let Carnival Have their way they know what the hell they are doing
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Excelente set the example....do not allow garrapata tour guide sindicato to operate....POP is a great historic. Port with a flavour unlike any other in the DR......let Carnival Have their way they know what the hell they are doing
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Sep 2012 12:11 PM
From: Australia
... and pigs might fly.
Written by: JHCL2016, 19 Sep 2012 12:34 PM
From: United States, EN PUNTA CANA: Jose H Con Leonel 2016!
Yes, thus Punta Cana will still lead the sector. Example, Sheraton's Four Seasons is ready for the October inauguration.
* starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3684
And, HOTEL @ plaza coral punta cana will be inaugurated in November 2012!
* facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=472427689457867&set=a.459601124073857.113926.100000719190603&type=3&theater
Mas pa'lante y las manos ya están obrando.
8-)
From: United States, Washington, DC
the flavor in PP is .... Who can a steal from today and which way will my trash fly with the carribbean breeze...... But, these cruise ships are going to Maimon... not to PP! Money is going to destroy another beautiful spot in the name of tourism...... which will only last for so little time...
Written by: JHCL2016, 19 Sep 2012 12:38 PM
From: United States, EN PUNTA CANA: Jose H Con Leonel 2016!
Almost forgot, the Autovia del Coral, for those who are complaining abou it, F you know what! Some say that it was over priced, hahahahha, after speeding four times on it, I can say that it's better than i80 (Northern NJ/PA) and it's one of safest road at night!
I value it at over 1.5 billions, not just the 400 millions that were invested!
Must see to believe, come visit and test it yourself, we have rooms ready for you!
8-)
Mas pa'lante y las manos ya están obrando.
From: Dominican Republic
I have faith that Puerto Plata and all of Dominican Republic will continue the path of Success!
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Yeah Yeah thats great....nobody is trying to steal Pcana market share...we are trying to bring a beautiful corpse back to life ....the future is looking better for POP
Written by: synapse, 19 Sep 2012 10:30 PM
From: United States
There needs to be a quality control of all goods and services offered to tourists so that the scams stop and the rip offs are prevented.
From: United States
Teach the people that RETURN customers are better than one time rip-offs.
Eliminate the stench of the moto-conchos and the kids that dirty your windshield.
Clean the garbage off the sides of the street and get tough on littering.
From: Dominican Republic
Let the deeds follow the words. It would be enough if only half of the promises were kept.
Puerto Plata is one of the most beautiful areas of the country. It deserves a relaunch.
From: United States
What the Puerto Plata BIG SHOTS need to do is to focus on HELPING PUERTO PLATA, not their pocketbooks, as they usually do. The PP Big Shots have never really cared about PP, which is a beautiful and cool town. If they did, they wouldn't have let PP deteriorate, which they did. They destroyed the park, and made money doing it. And most of the Victorian houses have rotted away. I've watched it disintegrate for 28 years.
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Jazz very cosmopolitan 19 century buildings wasting away....some beautiful Gingerbread...shame shame
From: Dominican Republic
jasfalon2 - Which Dominican politician ever cared about his country ?????
At least Danilo Medina S E E M S different.
Written by: jasfalon, 23 Sep 2012 9:07 PM
From: United States
calvoleon - It's not just the politicians who don't care about their country. It's also the Big Shot business people. The PP business people are greedy and selfish, like all RD business people.
From: Dominican Republic
jasfalon - 100% correct! Everybody who makes more than let's say 100,000 pesos a month, thinks he doesn't belong to the low creatures any more.
Written by: jasfalon, 1 Oct 2012 6:46 AM
From: United States
calavoleon, please don't insult poor Dominicans. They are not 'low creatures.' The 'low life' people are the money people like the Brugals, Cisneros', Garcias, etc.
From: Dominican Republic
I don't insult poor Dominicans. I think that's the way "los ricachones" see them. I think there is no foreigner who despises Dominicans that much like their own "elite" which doesn't care that 700.000 don't know how to read and write nor if they are living in shacks. You only have to see them (the ones with money -however they made it) when they come from "Nueba Yol" on Christmas, for example. Just disgusting. They treat their own people like rubbish.
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* starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3684
And, HOTEL @ plaza coral punta cana will be inaugurated in November 2012!
* facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=472427689457867&set=a.459601124073857.113926.100000719190603&type=3&theater
Mas pa'lante y las manos ya están obrando.
8-)
I value it at over 1.5 billions, not just the 400 millions that were invested!
Must see to believe, come visit and test it yourself, we have rooms ready for you!
8-)
Mas pa'lante y las manos ya están obrando.
There needs to be a quality control of all goods and services offered to tourists so that the scams stop and the rip offs are prevented.
Teach the people that RETURN customers are better than one time rip-offs.
Eliminate the stench of the moto-conchos and the kids that dirty your windshield.
Clean the garbage off the sides of the street and get tough on littering.
Puerto Plata is one of the most beautiful areas of the country. It deserves a relaunch.
At least Danilo Medina S E E M S different.