Highlights growing interest of the French to travel to the Dominican Republic

Tourism Minister David Collado meets with his French counterpart and asks him to change RD from orange to green

PARIS, France.- The Minister of Tourism of the Dominican Republic, David Collado, met with his French counterpart Jean-Baptiste Leomoyne and asked him to place the country on the green list to facilitate the growing interest of French tourists to travel to their destination. long distance favorite.

Collado argued to the French official that it is no longer justified for the country to remain on an orange alert due to the progress made in containing the pandemic through a massive vaccination program for all personnel in the tourism industry and its population in general.

He recalled that due to this new reality, the United States Center for Communicable Disease Control (CDC) placed his country in category 2, after assessing and recognizing the health measures adopted by the authorities to stop the incidence of Covid- 19.

He stated that the Secretary of State responsible for tourism of the French government promised to evaluate the request for category modification together with the bodies responsible for reviewing the measure.

After his meeting with the high French official, Minister Collado participated in an exchange with a large commission of leaders of the Association of French Tourism Journalists (AJT), whom he thanked for visiting the country at the beginning of 2021 to inform his compatriots on the progress already made in reopening their tourism industry.

The president of the AJT, Dominique De La Tour, said that French journalists were pleasantly impressed by the diversity of the country’s tourist attractions and by the attention that the Dominican government had devoted to containing the impact of the pandemic and relaunching tourism as main economic activity of the Caribbean nation.

During the meeting with tourist communicators, held at the Dominican stand at Top Resa, Minister Collado was accompanied by the director of the French Tourism Promotion Office, Mercedes Castillo; from Vice Ministers Jacqueline Mora, Patricia Mejía and Tammy Reynoso.

Likewise, the directors of Cabinet Natachú Domínguez and Promotion Britt De Moya; the Senior Vice President of the Punta Cana group, Francesca Rainieri; and the president of the Ibero-American Forum of Tourism Journalists (FIPETUR), Luis Jose Chávez.