The Dominican Republic is preparing to receive the debts due to its sanitation, security and infrastructure protocol, considered by the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili.
Zurab, who chose the country to realize his first family vacations since initiating the pandemic, carried out a courtesy visit on his last day, to President Luis Abinader on the eve of this week.
To conclude that the private manner was carried out and that the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, was present, the Secretary stated that the country is an example of how tourism can be managed with responsible protocols in the COVID era. -19, logrando atraer tourist tourists with sanitary security.
Consider that Abinader is the president with one of the best ideas he has seen in the last few years to lead tourism, attract more tourists, inversions, create new destinations and generate more jobs.
‘Geen hooi mejor sitio para invertir que este paraíso nie. A legally secure country, with a governing body motivated to create interesting, creative, modern and sustainable projects, ”Pololikashvili said.
Congratulations to the Dominican government on the way it has managed tourism, while recognizing that it is not possible to maintain a balance between health and the economy.
Between the qualities to choose the Republic, value its history, culture, and above all, for security.
“We have seen with our own proposals that there is a secure country, which complements all the protocols of the world which have failed in these rare and difficult epochs,” aggregated the conductor of the OMT.
At its stage in the country, thanks to the sanitary protocols, it can be confirmed that it is more safe to be at home or to the supermarket.
In addition, the beauty and hospitality of the Dominican Republic, since its inception in Punta Cana.
If you want to travel it is possible to behave responsibly, and if you do not travel it is not the solution to avoid the pandemic, so you should travel and travel the world.
Hizo hincapié in that in the history of tourism there is not a crisis as intense as the provocation by the COVID-19.
The Dominican Republic, through its exit experience in the maneuvering of COVID-19, can serve to achieve a number of leaders in the region in order to promote good practices that stimulate tourism.
Collado destacó “that the general secretary of the World Tourism Organization elija is this destination, it is a spaldarazo more than we are making the different things and very good”.
Collaborative signal that the governor of Abinader is working with international organizations and the private sector, by which he has regained confidence in tourism.
Dijo que in February, which is profiled with a bay during the tourist visit, concludes with more than 100,000 visitors, which indicates that tourism is lively company.
All the decisions made by the Dominican government, aggregate, are spent on tourism, as the main industry of the country, which represents 15% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Asimismo, by the importance of that 500,000 Dominicans live in this activity, and that the crisis has impacted all a chain that includes small travel agencies and tour operators.
Among the media adopted by the country, Collado cites the security of COVID-19, being a pioneer in this initiative.
Similarly, the incentive of domestic tourism has allowed around 100,000 employees to recover their jobs in the various hotel hotels of the country.
Collado subrayó that in the proven tests that are carried out in all the Dominican airports and, in hotels, with the tests of antigens for the North American market, the positivity rate does not exceed 1.20%, for which tourism does not represent a risk to increase the contagion.
Pololikashvil was accompanied by his wife Nikoloz Pololikashvili; Bernardo Castillo, assessor of the Minister of Transport of Spain and George Shamdze.