Investors identifying needs as Miches prepares to open hotels in 2024

MADRID.- There is already dates to open new hotels in breads in 2024. But there are also issues to address at the municipal and social level that three major investors Tourists in the area consider it vital for the push of that tourist center as the government wants, whose goal is to achieve 2,500 rooms in the short and medium term, which would attract 229,500 tourists annually.

Just a year ago, within the framework of the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) in Madrid, agreements of financing and promoted the investment in breadsa coastal municipality in the eastern Dominican region, with 26,394 inhabitants by 2022 and with 831 hotel rooms.

Today, framed in the same Fitur, but 2024 edition, it was announced at a breakfast with investorsthat he October 15th will come into operation on luxury hotel Landof 500 rooms, led by tourism businessman Frank Elías Rainieri. He December 11the Viva Wyndham Resorts chain plans to open the first stage of another hotelwhose phase will have 500 rooms.

Rafael Blanco Canto, executive vice president of Viva Wyndham Resorts, anticipates that the Turistic development of this destiny will generate a “tremendous immigration”.

“We have been speaking with the planning and land use planning department of the Ministry of Tourism, that it is very important to plan what I call the 'breads all'. We (the public-private sector) have to create householdscreate servicesfor that population that is going to be moving there,” he said.

He mentioned, as an example, that, when the hotel chain he represents opened hotels in Mexico, in a community of then 30,000 inhabitants, the Mexican government began planning. Today, the area exceeds 300,000 people and has developed “in an orderly manner.”

Rainieri, who also chairs the Puntacana Group, believes that it is up to the private sector to make the decisions. investments real estatesince the government already designed the territorial planning plan for the area. He indicated that the growth of Punta Cana It was not like that, because the businessmen did not dare to invest.

“He government is not there to invest in households; “Who is called to invest in housing is us, the businessmen,” he said to his peers present at the event. “Let's not be afraid to invest outside the capital. The country does not end in the capital, and few businessmen have invested in hotel areas.”

He recognized that building households takes time for permitlogybut the employees They will need them.

Beyond the households

Rainieri said that he came to breads between 2006-2008. “And I fell in love with breadsIt was a very nice area. She knew that at some point she was going to be the stretch of destiny Punta Cana”, he evoked.

He set out to acquire a property with 800 meters of beach and his plan was to sell it. It was offered to a Spanish group, but it did not materialize. He understood it as “a sign” that he should take charge of that project. He changed his business plans and with his team he started working at Zemí, a luxury hotel.

«Let's not be afraid to invest outside the capital. “The country does not end in the capital.”Frank Elias RainieriPresident of the Puntacana Group“

The businessman cited two other aspects to consider for the destination in which he has put his money. The first is the Connection The Seibo-Miches. “Because today, breadsAs a people, it does not have the capacity to have the population necessary to create the jobs needed from the entire area,” he said.

The second is the creation of a study Center tourismto begin preparing care staff.

“Those two things, yes. he they touch the state“, noticed.

Salvador Luque, general director of Fuerte Group Hotels – investor in a hotel of 1,000 rooms in breads-, indicated that we must think that the employees They need to live well, with their families, and make a life plan, settling in the area.

“That's why they need schools, hospitals, supermarkets; they need a Series of services“, said.

• The government estimates that during the process of investment tourist in breads 24,692 will be generated jobsthe gross domestic product will be impacted (GDP) with 1,234 million dollars. When the projects come into operation, 16,600 will be generated jobs and there will be annual impact on the GDP for 501 million dollars.

Official commitment

To support the investmentsThe Minister of Tourism, David Collado, promised today to do “everything possible” so that the development of breads be an urban model of Turistic development in the Dominican Republic.

“To the investors, to the funds, to the banks, I can tell you that can invest in Miches with complete security“, he claimed.

While Zurab Pololikashvili, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization, gave his support to the development. “I have no doubt that breads is going to become another more important destinationnot only for the Dominican Republic, but for the entire region, as is Punta Cana”, he assured.