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Puerto Plata Modernizes Tourism Offerings<\/STRONG> Four important hotel chains in Puerto Plata have presented proposals to the Secretary of State for Tourism (SECTUR) to renovate their services and installations in order to be in keeping with international standards. <\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Puerto Plata Modernizes Tourism Offerings Four important hotel chains in Puerto Plata have presented proposals to the Secretary of State for Tourism (SECTUR) to renovate their services and installations in order to be in keeping with international standards. \u201cIt must be noted that Puerto Plata is growing slowly. According to data from February, and this … Continue reading “Puerto Plata Modernizes Tourism Offerings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Tourism Minister, F\u00e9lix Jim\u00e9nez, pointed out that some 6,000 hotel rooms among the approximately 16,000 available in Puerto Plata, need improvement.
\u201cOf these 6,000, four hotel chains that have thousands of rooms between them have already presented their renovation plans. It is our goal that this year Puerto Plata enjoys the same growth as Punta Cana and Santo Domingo enjoyed last year,\u201d explained Mr. Jim\u00e9nez.
To evaluate the hotel installations in the area, Jim\u00e9nez said that a commission has been formed with participants from the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores) coordinated by deputy minister of SECTUR, Radham\u00e9s Mart\u00ednez Aponte \u201cso that these hotels have the facilities permitted them under the Law of Tourism Incentives.\u201d
The Best Winter
Luis L\u00f3pez, president of Asonahores, added that official statistics reflect a growth in tourism in Puerto Plata.
\u201cIt must be noted that Puerto Plata is growing slowly. According to data from February, and this is only the 19th day of the month, hotel occupancy has surpassed what it was a year ago this time,\u201d L\u00f3pez said.
He also pointed out that current hotel occupancy in other areas has surpassed a 95% average, not just in Punta Cana but also in Saman\u00e1, Sosua, Cabarete, Sos\u00faa, Cabarete, Puerto Plata, Playa Dorada, Boca Chica, Juan Dolio and in the capital Santo Domingo. \u201cAs such, this has been the best winter we\u2019ve had in the Dominican Republic in terms hotel occupancy,\u201d Mr. L\u00f3pez said.
He added that, in the near future, various hotels in Puerto Plata will also present their remodeling plans to SECTUR.
The Minister of Tourism and Mr. L\u00f3pez referred to these issues within the context of the recent agreement between SECTUR and the ECA-Quality Institute Consortium which will soon undertake a hotel classification system in the Dominican Republic.
Tourism Minister F\u00e9lix Jim\u00e9nez; Luis L\u00f3pez, president of Asonahores; Radham\u00e9s Mart\u00ednez Aponte, Deputy Tourism
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