MARCH 2009

Cabo Cabrón National Park

Cabo Cabrón National ParkA director is named

BREAKING NEWS: The Minister of Environment and Natural resources, Jaime David Fernández Mirabal, swore this Monday the company manager José Miguel González Cuadra as managing director of the Cabo Cabrón national park, in the Province of Samaná, and Ivelisse García as sub-manageress of the National Botanical garden.

The nomination of company managers took place within the framework of a strategy to commit contractors, characterized by a successful trajectory in their private management, with the conservation and the innovation of the management of the protected sectors, in order to apply the private experience in the public sphere.

González Cuadra is president of th Cuesta Nacional center (CCN), one of the independent « retail » groups of the country, with five store chains of retail sale including supermarkets, toys’ stores and hardware.

The national park of Cabo Cabrón is located at the north-eastern end of the Sierra of Samaná, it has the most spectacular cliffs of the country reaching up to 600 meters height, this is why it has a great potential to develop tourism of nature.

During the next days, other personalities of the private sector will be sworn as managing directors of the protected sectors.

Las Galeras Live, 05.03.09

Internal tourism, another option

Internal tourism, another optionA plan to stimulate the frequentation of the hotel centers

BREAKING NEWS: Internal tourism became a source of support for several nations which, because of various circumstances, saw a decrease in the arrival of foreign visitors.

This tendency was highlighted among tourist operators who attend the International Tourism Fair, by checking that flows of their own citizens had increased by ensuring a good level of occupation and operations of the hotels and of other installations.

It is a manner to avoid the decreasing tourists’ flows which occurred in some areas of the world for multiple causes, although in the case of Latin America the situation was different and, for certain nations, such a difference was marked by the Creole population who went in the tourist areas of these countries.

In the Dominican case, the Secretariat of Tourism, which controlled this tendency, proposes to develop in the next months a plan to stimulate the massive arrival of Dominicans in the hotel centers and on the beaches.

The plan consists in organizing excursions by buses for different public and places, for one, two or three days, with variable tariffs, in coordination with the hotel keepers and the companies which promote this type of travels.

The idea is to move the greatest quantity of citizens towards strategic places, like Samaná, Las Terrenas, Las Galeras, Puerto Plata and the beaches of the East and zones of the South, by combining entertainment and leisure with culture and historical places, so that the visited areas benefit from these flows, of which derive more consumption product and craft industries sales.

In a context like this one, in which one claims to encourage tourism, it is essential that the hotels propose attractive offers to the Dominicans in order they can enjoy in family all the excellent attractions which are offered, and by this way ensuring a good percentage of occupation and especially of employment for the Dominican workers in their installations.

Las Galeras Live, 13.03.09

Don’t eat lobster April to August

Don’t eat lobster April to AugustReproductive season

BREAKING NEWS: The Ministry of Environment says that from 1 April to 31 July there is a ban on the catching and sale of rock lobsters in the DR.

Restaurants are allowed to sell imported lobsters or their inventories by calling 809 732-3303/5. The ban is aimed at protecting lobsters during their reproductive season. It is a time when to consider whether you want to order that lobster or can choose another type of seafood.

During the closed season the capture, fishing, selling or storing of live species, in mass or tied up is prohibited. This is to guarantee the permanent existence of lobster populations, which in turn guarantees a reliable supply for the market .

DR1, 24.03.09