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P<\/SPAN>uerto Rican Minister of Tourism, Jaime L\u00f3pez, backed a proposal made by Dominican Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda to develop a regional tourism strategy to attract international visitors. They agreed that a mutual plan involving the Caribbean islands is the best approach.<\/P> \u201cYa no se trata solamente de islas espec\u00edficas, sino que como tema regional nuestra competencia ya no son nuestros vecinos, nuestra competencia es Asia, Europa, etc\u00e9tera\u201d..<\/P> Jaime L\u00f3pez said the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico should assume leadership roles to position the Caribbean Region as a viable destination for North American as well as European tourists. <\/P> Mr. L\u00f3pez made this proposal during a courtesy visit to his Dominican counterpart Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda, with whom he discussed strategies to be followed for both Caribbean destinations. They discussed the integration of other countries to form a Caribbean block. <\/P> \u201cIt is not a question anymore of specific individual neighboring islands but rather how to deal with places outside of our region such as Asia, Europe, etc,\u201d said L\u00f3pez while visiting the Dominican stand at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR-2009) in Madrid. <\/P> To form a mutual front would be a move that is truly and consistently in keeping with the Puerto Rican government\u2019s program as well as the philosophy of the Tourism Ministry of the island, \u201cin that it deals with regional issues, not just island issues.\u201d <\/P> Mr. L\u00f3pez\u2019s support for this plan is a consequence of the suggestion previously made by Mr. Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez at the headquarters of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) in Madrid. Mr. Fern\u00e1ndez said it is necessary to develop a regional strategy to attract the largest number of tourists from the hands of the main tour operators in the world. <\/P> Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez said that the world is affected by a serious financial crisis , but that tourism is not. He cautioned that tourism should be viewed as an opportunity for countries to offer excellent and attractive deals such as the Dominican Republic but that countries should not encourage pessimistic discourse that could ultimately hurt their tourism activities. <\/P> Dominican and Puerto Rican Tourism Ministers Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda and Jaime L\u00f3pez, talking at the Dominican stand FITUR-2009.<\/P> <\/P> <\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Puerto Rico Supports Dominican Regional Tourism Strategy Puerto Rican Minister of Tourism, Jaime L\u00f3pez, backed a proposal made by Dominican Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda to develop a regional tourism strategy to attract international visitors. They agreed that a mutual plan involving the Caribbean islands is the best approach. \u201cYa no se trata solamente de … Continue reading “Puerto Rico Supports Dominican Regional Tourism Strategy”<\/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-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"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=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of publication: February 01, 2009<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"