Dominican Republic promotes the construction of a Tourism Policy for the Region

SANTO DOMINGO. -The Dominican Republic is the venue for the III Workshop for the Construction of the Regional Tourism Policy (PRETUR), in which representatives of the member countries of the Central American Tourism Council (CCT) participate.

This first face-to-face workshop after the COVID pandemic has as its objective the promotion, prioritization and knowledge of the actions and contributions of the regional tourism sector at the highest level, which allows the articulation of its sustainable development with the other economic sub-sectors, to the next years.

The workshop was led by the Vice Minister of Tourism for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic, Carlos Peguero, in his capacity as representative of the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Central American Tourism Council (CCT).

Senior representatives of the National Tourism Administrations (ANT) and the private sector of the member countries of the CCT participated in it, who during the day will provide feedback on the strategic framework that will guide PRETUR; they will review their lines of action; and will outline a first management and implementation plan; inputs that will be submitted for approval by the Ministers of Tourism of the SICA Region, at their next regular meeting to be held this Wednesday.

Peguero stated that this meeting is important for the issue of integration of the countries that make up these organizations in terms of promotion and development of tourism in the region.

He expressed that for the Dominican Republic it represents a new step for the leadership and growth that the country’s tourism industry has exhibited and “also see ourselves as a multi-destination option for the entire Caribbean and Central American region.”

On her side, Katherine Vado Rivera, Acting Executive Secretary, in charge of Financial Affairs of SITCA, valued that this Third Workshop has the human factor as its key objective, with people being the great beneficiaries of the growth that local economies have had, as a factor dynamic and transformative that contributes to the reduction of poverty in these countries.

He considered it very satisfying that 2021 has been a good year for tourism in the Central American region together with the Dominican Republic, with important figures of 78% growth in visitor arrivals, job growth and income generation.

Within the framework of both meetings, both of the Central American Tourism Promotion Agency (CATA) and the Central American Tourism Council (CCT), this Wednesday the 13th, the transfer ceremony will take place in which the Dominican Republic assumes the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Central American Council of Tourism (CCT), in an act headed by the Dominican president Luis Abinader and the Minister of Tourism, David Collado.

After 57 years of creation of the Secretariat for Central American Tourism Integration (SITCA), the design of PRETUR will mark a historical milestone and an action that seeks to direct and interact from the strategic, in the constitution of basic guidelines that promote the development of tourism more competitive, innovative, resilient, inclusive, but above all sustainable.

This direction of tourist activity, which is being strategically led by the Central American Tourism Council (CCT) under the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Dominican Republic, would not be possible without a participatory opening, where all the entities involved must generate the necessary alliances to meet the objectives. in favor of socioeconomic development and for the benefit of the Central American peoples.

It is expected that the PRETUR will be approved by the CCT during the second half of 2022, in order to raise it for approval by the Presidents’ Summit at the end of the semester.