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T<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>he Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) highlighted the Dominican Republic\u2019s National Health and Tourism Commission (CONSATUR in Spanish) as a \u201cunique model\u201d of its kind in America and the Caribbean at the Central American Tourism Sustainability Forum held in San Jose, Costa Rica. <\/P> \u201cThe Central American Forum represented an opportunity for the Dominican Republic to actively participate in the training programs…”<\/P> The affirmation was made by Luis Sim\u00f3, Deputy Minister of Tourism for International Affairs who represented Dominican Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda at the event which was organized by the Ministry of Central American Tourism Integration, the Spain Fund\/SITCA, the Central American Tourism Council and the Costa Rican Institute for Tourism. The forum was held last week in the Costa Rican capital, according to the Press and Communication Office of SECTUR. \u201cThe Central American Forum represented an opportunity for the Dominican Republic to actively participate in the training programs and tourism development projects that are supported by the Spain Fund\/SITCA\u201d he said. Sim\u00f3 explained that the objective of the event was to identify and prioritize the criteria for sustainable tourism in the Central American region, to promote the Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics and to delineate activities carried out by the Central American Tourism Council. Presentations on various topics included health and tourism, criteria for sustainability, corporate responsibility and ethics in tourism, shared experiences in the management of restaurants, the application of the Code of Conduct governing the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in Central America, Climate Change and Tourism, among others. Sim\u00f3 spoke, at the behest of PAHO, about \u201cSustainable Development toward a Preventative Strategy in Health and Tourism.\u201d His speech highlighted the results of work done by the National Health and Tourism Commission of the Dominican Republic. The goal of the National Health and Tourism Commission (CONSATUR), is to promote and implement the development of the National Plan for Health and Tourism and to carry out programs that guarantee comprehensive health care for the people and sectors involved in tourism activities, decreed by President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez in January 2005. Luis Sim\u00f3, at the main table during the forum. <\/P> PAHO Praises Dominican Experience in Health and Tourism The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) highlighted the Dominican Republic\u2019s National Health and Tourism Commission (CONSATUR in Spanish) as a \u201cunique model\u201d of its kind in America and the Caribbean at the Central American Tourism Sustainability Forum held in San Jose, Costa Rica. \u201cThe Central American Forum represented … Continue reading “PAHO Praises Dominican Experience in Health and Tourism”<\/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-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530"}],"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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: December 11, 2009<\/EM><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"