Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado announced that La Isabela international Airport will be inaugurated in November. However, the airport has yet to be certified for operation as news reports indicate that birds attracted by the nearby Duquesa garbage dump and the La Isabela River ecosystem present certain problems for aircraft operations at the airport.
The facility was built to replace the Herrera International Airport, where the land has already been sold by the state in view of its debt to public works contractors.
The Dominican Republic’s Hotel Fund –an entity devoted to providing employees in hotels and restaurants with monetary assistance- is one of the many structures doomed to go down the drain as soon as the country’s new social security scheme goes into effect.
From being an institution that used to collect no less than 3 million Dominican pesos every month out of a workers and employers fund, the Hotel Fund is now only amassing an average 300,000 pesos, the fund chairman Pedro Peña Faña revealed.
Francesco Frangialli, WTO secretary-general, said China will achieve a historic transformation, becoming not only a huge Asian tourist nation but a giant among the world´s tourism leaders in the next two decades.
China reiterated Frangialli´s statement made at the opening ceremony of the WTO´s 15th general assembly currently ongoing in Beijing until Thursday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the tourism industry is new but truly dynamics part of the economy of China, and it will become a pillar industry by 2020.
The New York Post Adventures in Travel Expo (ATE), the world´s largest travel and adventure show set to debut January 9 - 11, 2004 in New York City, is pleased to announce that Jerry Mallett has joined as Conference Chairman.
The Dutch airline Air Holland expanded its service to the Caribbean by opening a new route to Aruba via St. Maarten. This new flight will help boost the flow of European tourists to these two destinations. The maiden flight took place last Friday 10th.
The company already has two weekly flights, Mondays and Thursdays, from Amsterdam to Curacao.
A new customs regulation issued by Cuba’s Customs Office comes to toughen existing guidelines that regulate the export of hand-rolled tobacco from the island nation.
From now on, both national and foreign travelers will be bound to orally declare to customs agents whether they intend to take Cuban cigars out of the country.
In the light of this regulation, all travelers will be obliged to produce of copy of the original sale receipt issued by one of the country’s many authorized stores every time they intend to take more than 23 cigars out of the country.