Official Seeks Stronger Puerto Rico-Dominican Links to Face Airline Crisis

Puerto Rico seeks to bolster bilateral cooperation on tourism with Dominican Republic and the Caribbean’s other Hispanic islands, aimed at possible regional agreements and strategies in view of the challenges posed by the United States airlines crisis.

Puerto Rico Tourism Company (CTPR) director Terestella Gonzalez praised Dominican tourism’s sustained growth and diversity which in her country is perceived as a model industry in many aspects.

“We are beginning conversations, seeing which opportunities could take place, analyzing the situation that’s occurring at the airline level, but we understand that we can establish links in cooperative agreements between both islands,” the official said after a meeting with Tourism minister Felix Jimenez.