Brazilian authorities are confident about the economic recovery of the Dominican Republic and, therefore, are encouraging their own entrepreneurs to do business in that Caribbean country, a diplomatic source in this nation revealed this week.
Brazilian Ambassador to Santo Domingo, Ronaldo Dunlop, who atended a meeting with Santiago de Chile Governor Jose Izquierdo, explained there´s a tremendous interest in his country to make hefty investments in local breweries and other job-creating projects.
Venezuela´s travel industry and spiking oil prices are the most visible signs that the South American nation´s economy actually rebounded in 2004.
According to the Tourism Ministry, authorities from the sector are expecting to log over 45 million domestic travelers and little more than 639,000 international sunbathers coming to Venezuela in the course of the ongoing year.
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) is gearing up for the oncoming Fourth Summit in Panama, trying to do its homework in terms of social and economic achievements for its people.
The summit´s Organizing Committee is already working in Panama City under the watchful eye of Panama´s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Lewis Navarro.
Paraguay is the cheapest travel destination for euro-wielding German tourists, followed by Egypt, India and Argentina, according to a report issued by the Federal Statistics Agency this week.
Paraguay is also the country that provides the best purchasing power for travelers of the Euro Zone, with a national currency exchange rate of € 1.68 for every guarani.
Mexico´s leisure sector swung for the fences in January and came out with a tape-measuring dinger as it raked in more than $1 billion worth of revenues, up a blistering 15.4 percent from January 2004, the country´s Tourism Department informed this week in a press release.
The Aztec nation welcomed 1.8 million tourists in January, up 10.1 percent from that same month a year ago. Out of that total, little more than one million visitors came from other parts of the country, while the remaining 728,000 sunbathers hailed from across the border.
The Dominican government warned that plummeting tourist arrivals from the United States and Canada, coupled with outbreaks of infectious diseases in some areas, have already cost the Caribbean nation some $300 million so far this year.
In early February, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez ordered the creation of a healthcare institution for tourists visiting the nation in an effort to stave off the outbreaks of infectious ailments that hit the east and north of the country.