The Government of Puerto Rico launched an island-wide economic development program that incorporates a new tourism marketing program at a press gathering in New York. The campaign, entitled “Puerto Rico Does It Better!,” features television, print and online advertising that positions the Caribbean island as a premium tourist destination featuring a diverse boutique, luxury and business hotels including several new properties, plus a modern tourism infrastructure including one of the largest sea ports in the Western hemisphere along with a major international airport.
The Dominican Republic (DR) Ministry of Tourism is providing the facts to ensure travelers have all of the information on the health situation in the DR concerning cholera. DR Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez reported that the DR government has a proactive disease prevention system in place.
The Puerto Rican Government and tourism bureau have launched simultaneous campaigns intended to overcome economic challenges by sparking tourism and private investment. “Discover why Puerto Rico does it better,” reads the tagline for the joint tourism campaign launched by the Puerto Rican Governor’s Office and the Puerto Rico Tourism Company in New York this week.
Cancun’s eroding white sand beaches are providing a note of urgency to the United Nations climate talks being held just south of this seaside resort famed for its postcard-perfect vistas. Rising sea levels and a series of unusually powerful hurricanes have aggravated the folly of building a tourist destination atop shifting sand dunes on a narrow peninsula. After the big storms hit, the bad ideas were laid bare: Much of Cancun’s glittering hotel strip is now without a beach.
A weekend visit to Grenada by a group of 100 Barbadians, including that country’s Tourism Minister, is being viewed as a potential new opportunity for increasing inter-island tourism. Richard Sealy, the Barbadian Minister of Tourism, and his delegation arrived in Grenada on two chartered LIAT flights for the weekend visit that was arranged months ago in London, England.
A new business association promoting Chile’s thermal hot springs hopes to bump visits up 12 percent to 1 million people by 2015. Last year only 700,000 people visited Chile’s hot springs, which exist in all corners of this mountainous, volcano-rich country.