Dominican Republic to Host International Conference on Tourism Clusters

The Dominican Republic has been handpicked by The Competitiveness Institute to hold its first global thematic conference, an event devoted to travel clusters slated for April 7 thru 10 in Punta Cana.

The Competitiveness Institute on this Caribbean island (CNC, http://www.cnc.gov.do/) acts as a national counterpart and local organizer of this event. The initiative is being backed up by the nation’s Tourism Ministry, the National Hotel and Restaurant Association (ASONAHORES), the Dominican Tourist Competitiveness Council (CDTC is the Spanish acronym), the USAID and the Dominican Sustainable Tourism Alliance, the European Union, the Andean Development Corporation, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Banco Popular Dominicano, Grupo Metro, the Dominican Caribbean Traveling Network and Casa Montecristo, among others.

The event’s main objective is to gather international experts on competitiveness and clustering in an effort to share practices and lessons on those issues, the organizers told Caribbean News Digital.

The gathering will be attended by both local and international experts, academicians, travel industry execs, clustering practitioners from around the world, students and other specialists.

The event’s program will include lectures, exhibitions, experts’ panels, a one-day session exclusively devoted to learn about the Dominican experience in the field, as well as half a dozen on-the-spot visits within the clusters of La Altagracia (the Punta Cana area and its surroundings) and Romana-Bayahibe.