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T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR) has announced that July 31 is the date upon which the National Hotel Classification System (SNCH) will be put into effect. The system will allow for regulation of the country\u2019s hotel services and infrastructure to be in harmony with international standards. <\/P> The system will allow for regulation of the country\u2019s hotel services and infrastructure to be in harmony with international standards. <\/P> As stated in Resolution 163-08, the SNCH nullifies all classification and categories established prior to approval of the new system, clarifying that \u201cthey are totally invalid until such time as they are classified in accordance with the new parameters,\u201d according to a statement from the Office of Press and Communications. It also provides that \u201cthere will be no promotion of hotel establishments in the country, whether national or international, in the publication\u201d unless they have been duly classified and certified by SECTUR within the framework of the SNCH. It calls on the preselected hotels \u201cto provide the team, made up of personnel from the ECA-IQ Consortium and SECTUR technicians, with all the necessary facilities to carry out their work.\u201d Referring to the resolution, Tourism Minister F\u00e9lix Jim\u00e9nez, stated that \u201cthe categories granted to hotels and tourism accommodations have become obsolete in terms of international standards of quality.\u201d He added that the aspects conferred by the Dominican legislature upon SECTUR instructs the organism to \u201cpromote, organize, direct, stimulate, coordinate and evaluate\u201d the policies covered by the laws of the land and the Executive Power in terms of tourism. The ECA-IQ Consortium was selected last February to draw up the Design and Application project of the SNCH following a legal process that began in June 2007 with the support of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (ASONAHORES) and the National Competitiveness Council (CNC). The project was financed in part by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), channeled through the National Fund for Competitiveness (FONDEC). The first to be evaluated, according to SECTUR, will be hotel accommodations, restaurants and businesses in Santo Domingo, Boca Chica, Juan Dolio, Romana-Bayah\u00edbe, Punta Cana-B\u00e1varo, Saman\u00e1, Puerto Plata, R\u00edo San Juan and Santiago. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> National Hotel Classification System Begins on July 31 The Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR) has announced that July 31 is the date upon which the National Hotel Classification System (SNCH) will be put into effect. The system will allow for regulation of the country\u2019s hotel services and infrastructure to be in harmony with international standards. The … Continue reading “National Hotel Classification System Begins on July 31”<\/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-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309"}],"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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: July 05, 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"