NewsWhore
07-06-2009, 05:20 PM
The president of the National Hotels & Restaurants Association (Asonahores) Haydee Kuret de Rainieri warned that this was not the right time for the government to raise prices and charges or impose new taxes because the tourism sector could collapse.
As reported in Hoy, speaking during an event in her honor during a meeting organized by the Caribbean Tourism Bourse she said that tourism should be a matter of state. She warned that some hotels in Samana and Puerto Plata have already had to close, leaving thousands without jobs.
She complained that the sector already has very high energy and labor costs and all that affects business profitability.
She added that despite all the problems the hotel sector is neither worse off than expected, nor better off than expected. "We had said since the start that this winter we would be 10% below last year". She reminded the government that the local tourist industry has to compete with the rest of the world.
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As reported in Hoy, speaking during an event in her honor during a meeting organized by the Caribbean Tourism Bourse she said that tourism should be a matter of state. She warned that some hotels in Samana and Puerto Plata have already had to close, leaving thousands without jobs.
She complained that the sector already has very high energy and labor costs and all that affects business profitability.
She added that despite all the problems the hotel sector is neither worse off than expected, nor better off than expected. "We had said since the start that this winter we would be 10% below last year". She reminded the government that the local tourist industry has to compete with the rest of the world.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)