The Dominican Republic now has a new space for promoting attractions, diversity and its investment facilities, enabling it to attract new tourists and developers from Central Europe. The Tourism Promotion Office (OPT) in Vienna, Austria, was officially inaugurated this week by the Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia, and is directed by Ana Mendez Abreu.Garcia explained that the main objective of this office was to revitalize the Dominican Republic so that it receives as much tourists from this area than in the past.
During his visit to Vienna, the Minister of Tourism said that the Dominican Republic was the most beautiful and most varied tourist destination in the Caribbean, and took the opportunity to meet with businessmen from major tourism businesses, which he explained plans and visions for the development of tourism in the country, with emphasis on environmental protection.
He also explained that during the last eleven months, the Tourist Development Council (Confotur) had approved 83 new tourism projects with an investment of US$15,300 million, and the next six months of next year, projects exceeding over US$12,000.00 million had been proposed.
The opening ceremony of the new OPT Vienna, was attended by Jose Ramon Fadul, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Doris Koepf, Attorney Lauda Air; Jeannie Hernandez García, Engelbert Egger, president of GEO Travel, Sena Uzguren, director of TUI Austria and Central Europe; Kozourek Reinhard, director of Thomas Cook Austria and Central Europe; Ana Méndez-Abreu, director of the Office of Tourism of the Dominican Republic to Austria and Central Europe and her husband Alexander Schaufler, MBI Director Marketing Consulting International.
