David Collado impressed with his audiovisual presentation, describing the strength of the Dominican tourism industry, after overcoming its challenges.
Jose Rafael Sosa
Madrid Spain. David Collado, Minister of Tourism, spoke on Tuesday night before 302 Spanish and European tour operators, in the arena of the Las Ventas Bullring, prepared for this purpose to convert it into a closed space in which the guests were housed to See what the Dominican Republic said about its tourism.
Collado made use of a talent to impact his audience, using audiovisual technology, with notable scenic mastery, managing to move people by presenting facts and triumphs of Quisqueyan tourism. He used everything depending on his objective: the modulation of the voice, its stage movement, its data… and the base of image and sounds.
Collado reopening to tourism as the first country to reopen its industry, despite the pandemic. He referred to the goals achieved, the renewal of the Dominican offer and the new objectives for 2024.
Listening to the minister, at the main table, were also owners of Spanish hotel chains, founding leaders of essential Dominican tourism projects (from Puna Cana, the best-known Dominican project to Cap Cana, the Destination City), the two main financiers of the industry. of tourism whose executives from the Dominican Popular Bank and the Reserve Bank, Christopher Paniagua and Samuel Pereyra.
Added to them was the Minister of Culture, Milagros Germán, who arrived in Madrid to emphasize culture as a fundamental element of tourism, after coming to Madrid to the inauguration of the Happy exhibition, with the works of Jorge Pineda, by Centro León, what had happened in the afternoon.
The tourism minister addressed his words more than once to tour operators, indicating that the country represents a beautiful destination, with complete safety for its visitors and tourists. An emotional part of his data was the presentation of the arrival figures for tourists and cruise passengers in 2022 and 2023 in relation to 2019 (before the pandemic).
He was clear in his objective of motivating tour operators from Spain and Europe to decide on the Dominican destination. He presented on the three screens that almost surrounded the audience, the recognitions that the country won for having been the first country to reopen due to the pandemic and that included health insurance for tourists, the sanitary measures implemented in the hotels and the process return of tourists to Dominican hotels from 2022 and 2022 onwards.
A large journalistic delegation was accommodated at three tables to cover the event, including media directors and editors, staff journalists, web media reporters and a notable number of social media influencers.
Collado took a tour of the goals achieved, including the arrival of the 10 millionth visitor, Californian Ariana Guilak, who arrived on December 26 by American Airlines at Punta Cana Airport, received with a red carpet.
“Your presence here is the best evidence that together we will guarantee to continue being the favorite long-distance destination of Europeans,” Collado told the tour operators and travel agents who participated in the Road Show.
The tourism minister showed the recovery of the sea view of the cities with coastlines and seawalls that have had to be recovered and reconstructed (including the seawalls of Santo Domingo, Samaná, San Pedro de Macorís, las Terrenas, Pedernales and Miches, among others). destinations and public beaches that have been restructured.
He stopped at the Miches destination to highlight that it is the great paradise that is now being discovered by international chains that have already started the construction of hotels in the area and in Punta Bergantín, in Puerto Plasta, a mega project that has financing from Banreservas, which already has two hotels approved and is being designed in phase.
Collado presented part of the plans for 2024, which include the relaunch works of the Colonial City and the new goals in terms of numbers of tourists and visitors.
Collado’s presentation began the official program of the Ministry of Tourism for the International Tourism Fair that begins this Thursday the 23rd at the Ifema venue.
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The Minister of Tourism, David Collado in his presentation before 300 tour operators, hoteliers, journalists and financiers of the Dominican tourism industry at the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, in Madrid.