The World Journey Awards has nominated the Dominican Republic in 13 completely different classes in its 2024 version.
The winners will probably be introduced on Could 19, 2024, in Jamaica.
The nation has 5 notable nominations within the “Vacation spot” class:
- Main Journey Tourism Vacation spot within the Caribbean
- Main Seaside Vacation spot within the Caribbean
- Main Cruise Vacation spot within the Caribbean
- Main Pure Vacation spot within the Caribbean
- Main Sports activities Tourism Vacation spot within the Caribbean
As well as, this class bears a particular award known as “Main Caribbean Tourism Board,” which honors distinctive efforts made to market the placement with the intention to draw vacationers and preserve its competitiveness.
As well as, the awards have honored three Dominican companies in three classes associated to tourism and transportation, in addition to six Dominican resort complexes in 4 classes.
In 2023, the Dominican Republic cracked all earlier data for vacationer arrivals, boasting the biggest variety of Caribbean guests and stayover company ever recorded.
Within the first quarter of 2024, the nation anticipates receiving greater than 2.3 million vacationers.
Officers report that solely in January, the nation acquired over one million guests by air and sea, most of whom had been U.S. residents.
Final however not least, David Collado, the Minister of Tourism, gave assurances that the federal government, enterprise neighborhood, and educational establishments are working collectively to scale back the results of sargassum on the Dominican Republic’s coasts.
“We’re working intensely to discover a quick, medium, and long-term resolution to this drawback that impacts seashores, and never solely within the Dominican Republic,” he stated after a cupboard assembly to fight sargassum.
He added that the minister would give the nation’s universities $1 million to help sargassum analysis.
Miguel Ceara Hatton, the Cupboard Coordinator and Minister of Surroundings and Pure Sources, introduced {that a} group has been created to trace sargassum each day. It can report back to the Cupboard on the way it plans to perform its objectives and search cures within the close to future.
