The country has had two laws of incentives to tourism which are in effect for Azua, Barahona, Bani, Palenque, Miches, Montecristi, Cabrera, San Juan de la Maguana, and Rio San Juan, but these regions have yet to start or develop.

With new investments in sun, sand and beach as well as capturing "mountain" tourism, alongisde adventure and ecotourism in the Dominican Republic, all are an opportunity for those financially depressed provinces to raise the quality of life of its inhabitants. 

The Competiveness Council (already mentioned in todays news article about Tourism Industry praising the Dominican Senate) is tracing complementary tourism strategies through networks of micro-industrialists who provide tourism services, which would add value and create vital new jobs in areas such as Barahona through that province's Ecotourism Cluster in the Dominican Republic.

Jaime Moreno is the advisor for the Competiveness Council and said "Just like other country's clusters, Barahona receives approximately US$200,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank.  He said ecotourism in those zones can mean income for the protection of national parks and other natural places, and those funds could not be obtained from other sources."  He continued to add "In the cases of Bani and Barahona, which also have sun and beach, they have the disadvantage of few hotel rooms, another of Barahona's options is thermal sulphur springs in Canoa."

UNESCO has declared the areas of Jaragua and the Bahoruco National Parks a biosphere reserve.

To read more on the national parks of the Dominican Republic check out this link http://www.therealdr.com/content/view/118/353/)

The representative for the Perdenales Tourism Cluster president Marino Jose Dilomar has said that this area "invites scientific and encourages nature research tourism" However in order to take advantage of Perdenales image the community require some RD$20million to do it properly.

Dilomar continued to say that the area has accepted support from the National Competiveness Council and also from the Spanish International Cooperation Agency as part of the Araucaria Enriquillo project.  He said "It is impossible to promote Perdenales because it's services are not of an international quality, the supply of rooms just is not enough, in general all of the hotel services and restaurants have a quality of standard based on natural diversity and proximity."

He said the Perdenales region's low population density can become a development model that serves as an example for the Caribbean, which also has the greater endemism in that region, 75 percent of its territory is virgin and the area has a large variety of species.