Santo Domingo.- The Tourism Industry Promotion Council yesterday announced the approval of seven new investment projects worth nearly US$780 million, to build around 11,000 rooms.
Tourism vice minister Radhamés Martinez Aponte said most of the projects are real estate, one is for tourists and another is a complementary offer, in Punta Cana and Samaná, by Spanish, American and Dominican investors.
The official, speaking in a press conference during the 11ª version of the Dominican Annual Tourism Exchange, DATE 2010 in the Moon Palace, said the requests for the new investments were reviewed in the Council meeting on March 30.
The Russians are coming Martinez also said that Russia’s major carrier Aeroflot based in Moscow, will begin weekly service to Dominican Republic in May. “We’ve become the Caribbean destination’s leader for Russia. Its airline Transaero is flying to the country seven times weekly, transporting 50,000 tourists in 2009, more than what Cuba receives."
