The Minister of Tourism of the Dominican Republic, David Collado, met with his French counterpart Jean-Baptiste Leomoyne and requested to place the country on the green list to facilitate the growing interest of French tourists to travel to the country.
Collado argued to the French official that It is no longer justified for the country to remain on an orange alert due to the progress made in containing the pandemic through a massive vaccination program for all personnel in the tourism industry and its general population.
He recalled that due to this new reality the United States Center for Communicable Disease Control (CDC) placed his country in category 2, after assessing and recognizing the health measures adopted by the authorities to curb the incidence of Covid-19 .
He stated that the Secretary of State responsible for tourism of the French government undertook to evaluate the request for category modification together with the bodies responsible for reviewing the measure.
After his meeting with the high French official, Minister Collado participated in an exchange with a large commission of leaders of the Association of French Tourism Journalists (AJT), whom he thanked for visiting the country at the beginning of 2021 to inform his compatriots on the progress already made in reopening their tourism industry.
The president of the AJT, Dominique De La Tour, expressed that the French journalists were pleasantly impressed by the diversity of the country’s tourist attractions and for the attention that the Dominican government had devoted to containing the impact of the pandemic and relaunching tourism as the main economic activity of the Caribbean nation.
During the meeting with tourist communicators, held at the Dominican stand at Top Resa, Minister Collado was accompanied by the director of the French Tourism Promotion Office, Mercedes Castillo; from Vice Ministers Jacqueline Mora, Patricia MejÃa and Tammy Reynoso.
Likewise, the directors of Cabinet Natachú DomÃnguez and Promotion Britt De Moya; the Senior Vice President of the Punta Cana group, Francesca Rainieri; and the president of the Ibero-American Forum of Tourism Journalists (FIPETUR), Luis Jose Chávez.
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