Local demand holds Hotels at low time

posted on: Jan 3 2012 13:33 by RDugey. Viewed 19 times.

The visits of tourists Dominican residents to hotels in the country remain a significant rate of occupation, and some tourist poles has increased sustained.

The Vice-President of the National Association of hotels and tourism (Asonahores), Arturo Villanueva, said that Creole tourists represented about 25% of total number of guests during the off-season, which begins in April.

In the season however high the presence of Dominicans in the hotels reduces to approximately 15%. "Tour operators grabbing most of the offer to foreign tourists, that citizens prefer to wait for it reduced the prices of the packages at the time of lower demand", he said Villanueva.

Also points out that Dominicans have no culture to plan your holiday beforehand, hindering the achievement of quota during the months that increases the level of u000aoccupation.

Villanueva highlighted the importance of the construction of new routes of land communication career Santo Domingo-Samana, the motorway of the Coral and the tourist Atlantic Boulevard, to the dynamism of the domestic tourism. Explains that decreased over time and the move within the national territory driving Dominicans to move farther away from their place of residence destinations.

Asonahores director for region North, most churches, said in Puerto Plata the level of occupation of the Dominicans on weekends is high and most of the hotels are held in local tourism during low season. That province basically receives visitors from Santo Domingo, La Romana, La Vega, Bonao and Santiago.

In Samana Dominican tourism is also significant, and holds the Chair of the tourism project real estate Puerto Bahia, Juan Bancalari, the trend is to continue u000aincreasing, not only in hotels resorts but the condohoteles and hotels boutique.

Villanueva highlighted that they have been carrying out the national public campaigns to promote tourism in the South of the country, which has attractive offers for the Creoles.

He also said that the hotel industry has designed strategies to Puerto Plata recovered tourists from Santiago, Moca and the rest of the central Cibao which have traditionally been the Dominican visitors most regulars at that destination.

The President of Asonahores, July Llibre, stressed that congresses and events that organise professional guilds largely affect the visits of the Dominican National hotels, they also usually take place in seasons low because you get better rates.

Free pointed out that another reason why the greatest concentration of local tourists in hotels is recorded in the low season is that the Dominicans u000athey tend to take the school recess to plan family holidays.

PSI
according to Central Bank statistics, in 2011 hotels who maintained the highest occupancy levels were the Bávaro-Punta Cana and La Romana-Bayahibe, which had rates of 76 and 75 per cent, respectively.

Hotels in Samana had an occupancy rate average of 69%, followed by those of Santo Domingo and Juan Dolio which reached levels of 61%.

Puerto Plata and Sosua-Cabarete recorded occupation rates lower with 54 and 52%, respectively.

This year Dominican Republic received by air 4.3 million tourists between foreigners and Dominicans not residents.

according to the data of the Central Bank the average quarterly spending of resident Dominicans in the hotels in the country in 2011 was of US$ 845 and the average stay of thirteen nights.

destinations
the largest u000aconcentration of both foreign and domestic tourists is concentrated in the East, but Puerto Plata and Samaná provides a greater increase in visits by Dominicans.

Planning
Arturo Villanueva noted that Dominicans have no culture to plan your holiday beforehand, hindering the achievement of quota during the months that increases the level of occupation.

Sustaining
Asonahores director for region North, most churches, said that the level of occupation of the Dominicans in Puerto Plata is high and most of the hotels are held in local tourism during low season.

That province basically receives visitors from Santo Domingo, La Romana, La Vega, Bonao and Santiago.

increase in visits
The President of the real estate tourist project Puerto Bahia, Juan Bancalari, said that the presence of Dominicans tourists in Samaná is significant and that u000athe trend is to continue increasing.