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Mitur admits flights to Dominican Republic “are extremely expensive”
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https://dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2022/04/01/mitur-admits-flights-to-dominican-republic-are-extremely-expensive/
According to the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, improving air connectivity is one of the significant challenges facing the Dominican Republic to become a much more competitive tourist destination.
The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) head emphasized that flights to the Dominican Republic “are costly.”
Collado indicated that in his administration, he had changed the modality of presenting the country by traveling with his team to different states of the United States and the world to sell the Dominican Republic directly to tour operators and travel agencies. However, he emphasized that the subject always mentioned to him is connectivity and airfares.
Because of the high cost of airfares, the Dominican government is focused on supporting the launching of new airlines that can offer fares at a much more competitive price.
Another of the challenges of the industry that the Minister of Tourism recently addressed while participating in the Amchamdr Encounter of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic is to continue strengthening security in the tourist centers, understanding that the projects of the beaches with security cameras must continue to be implemented.
Likewise, he believes it is necessary to strengthen and create a business brigade in the tourist police, where the agents receive salary increases and the one who earns the least is 40,000 or 50,000 pesos.
He also expressed the need for 30,000 new hotel rooms and refurbishing part of the existing ones.
tugboaboat5393:
All good points ,Gee why not lower the air port tax At POP,,, no brainer Hotels in Sosua ok a few are up to standards as far as sosua kinda full at the Inn meaning no more room other than the beach and a few good reseruants in town theres not much there for the family tourist to do or see in a 10 block area....as far as chicas they will be there one way or an other AS far as cost to fly if the inflation and the cost of energy keeps going up,, folks are not going on vacation a crash meaning economic! hold on to your hats! Then the big price reset ! just dont fly Red wings !
LAKESIDE40:
Across the board flying has shot up! But if ur in the NY area there’s a JetBlue from JFK to POP that’s been real reasonable. I was thinking of using my miles to fly into JFK and connect from there.
pecos:
American Airlines Miami to dr is $600 and up , that is crazy for such a short flight
Travelguy90:
I flew Avianca, and Vivaair in Brazil and Colombia. Never Copa but I’m open minded. I don’t think I’d be trusting any Dominican Republic airlines until the first 2-3 years are out the way.(I don’t trust the logistics, qualities and believe some short cuts will be taken to offset low fare)
Still the typical Dominican citizen will definitely feel the spike in increased fares. They still likely will fly to the cheapest city available and work from their but when the cheap 167-177 RT flights from Miami turn into 350-450$ or they will feel it. Even a small spike of 50$ to 230 is a week pay for some in the lower sector. Tourist can afford it, but national citizens likely aren’t excited considering they are still losing value on their money despite overspending tourist coming in regularly
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