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Dominican Republic tourist numbers rising
Thursday 26 June 2008
A robust tourist industry will clearly help to boost demand for property in a region and statistics for the first quarter of 2008 show the Dominican Republic's tourist numbers are rising.
The latest statistics from the nation's tourism minister have revealed that there has been an eight per cent increase in tourism arrivals to the region in 2008.
Figures from the Central Bank support the numbers and show that in the first quarter of 2008 there were 1.6 million visitors to the republic, which was close to a six per cent rise since 2007, easier property reported.
Enrique De Marchena Kaluche is president of the Caribbean Hotel Association for 2008-2010, and was quoted In Hotel and Management magazine as expressing the importance of a healthy tourism industry.
He said that the Dominican Republic government has begun to invest major resources in tourism because "they realized that this is an investment with immediate return that supports the whole chain of the Dominican economy, the agricultural sector, cattle, telecommunications and construction".
Christopher Columbus landed at Mole Saint-Nicolas, in north-west present-day Haiti, on December 5th, 1492, during his first voyage and claimed the island for Spain, which he named La Espanola.
The latest statistics from the nation's tourism minister have revealed that there has been an eight per cent increase in tourism arrivals to the region in 2008.
Figures from the Central Bank support the numbers and show that in the first quarter of 2008 there were 1.6 million visitors to the republic, which was close to a six per cent rise since 2007, easier property reported.
Enrique De Marchena Kaluche is president of the Caribbean Hotel Association for 2008-2010, and was quoted In Hotel and Management magazine as expressing the importance of a healthy tourism industry.
He said that the Dominican Republic government has begun to invest major resources in tourism because "they realized that this is an investment with immediate return that supports the whole chain of the Dominican economy, the agricultural sector, cattle, telecommunications and construction".
Christopher Columbus landed at Mole Saint-Nicolas, in north-west present-day Haiti, on December 5th, 1492, during his first voyage and claimed the island for Spain, which he named La Espanola.
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