NewsWhore
06-19-2007, 06:20 PM
The National Hotels and Restaurants Association (ASONAHORES) was unable to hold a meeting it had scheduled for last week to discuss Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez's request for support from the leading tourism organization. That meeting has now been rescheduled for 27 June, as reported in Diario Libre. Jimenez has said that if ASONAHORES doesn't support his tenure he will resign from his post. Jimenez has been in the news recently for a land use study for the National Park of the East and for granting a "no-objection" for a developer to build in that area despite the fact that only the Ministry of Environment can give permission to do so. Ernesto Veloz, of the Association of Hotels and Tourism Projects of the East, commented when appearing on the Uno+Uno TV program that it is not up to the hotel association to give on opinion on criticism to decisions made by the minister. "We should not take part in that," said Veloz. 52.5% of the tourists that travel to the Dominican Republic stay at hotels in the East Coast. While the board of Asonahores has yet to meet on the topic, the president of Asonahores verbally has expressed his support to the minister.
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