JUNE 2009

The Las Galeras Samaná road, a problem for the tourist flow

Very alarming situation for the zone

BREAKING NEWS: Hundreds of local tourists who travel from Santo Domingo, Santiago and other localities of the country towards the province of Samaná complain constantly about the bad conditions of the road for going to the hotels located at Las Galeras.

Henry Ulloa, managing director of the Gran Paradise hotel of the Amhsa Marina chain, informed that at the time of the visit made by the president of the country, Leonel Fernández spoke about the repair and the works which will be carried out on the roads which lead towards Samaná to Las Terrenas and from Samaná to Las Galeras, where it exists a remarkable tourist development.

For the moment, work did not start but the population has confidence in the fact that these repairs can be carried out before to start the winter season, during which a great quantity of customers is awaited coming from the principal niches of the international markets, he commented on.

Ulloa added that it would be very alarming for the zone to have hotels full of tourists with the conditions under which the roads which lead to the principal tourist destinations of this area are.

Las Galeras Live, 15.06.09