Growing Number Of Russians Tourist To Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO.- Arturo Villanueva, executive vice-president of Hotels and Restaurants Association (Asonahores) said visitors from emergent markets such as Russia "have compensated the amount of tourists from traditional markets that didn’t come to the country as the result of the global economic crisis".
Villanueva hailed Dominican Republic’s effective promotion abroad, headed by Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia, along with the private sector,
He said to the press that spending on promotion for internal tourism and the improved access roads to tourism regions are positive factors.

Villanueva said the decline in the number of tourists from countries such as Spain and France has been compensated by visitors from South American nations, Russia, Brazil among others.

The Dominican Republic has become the Caribbean’s tourism leader and we are in the last 9 months with positive figures in tourist arrivals, “by the incidence of the Tourism Ministry’s leadership in that accomplishment", he said.

Source: Dominican Today