Dominican Mountain Town Boosts Ecotourism with Office, Rebuilt Hotel

Dominican Republic’s Tourism minister Felix Jimenez last weekend inaugurated the tourist information office of Constanza, which aims to promote mountain tourism in the area.

“If tourists can access this information easily and get it in a place provided by a reliable institution, there’s a high possibility that they leave satisfied and repeat as a customer,” he said.

The Tourism chief said the goal is to establish nine ecotourism clusters in the country, to generate higher profits for small and medium businesses, create jobs and conserve the biodiversity in those areas.

There are clusters are in the La Romana-Bayahibe area, Altragracia province, Samana, Puerto Plata, Barahona, Jarabacoa, Santo Domingo and Pedernales, in addition to Constanza, which are sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the Dominican Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (DSTA) as a local branch to support the initiative, at a cost of around $2.5 million.