The 16 Spanish tourism families, as they are known in Spain, owners of the most important hotel chains in that country and that exceed 60 thousand hotel rooms in the Dominican Republic expressed their satisfaction with the President of the Republic Luis Abinader and Minister David Collado for the work that has been done for the recovery and relaunching of tourism.
This business group expressed to the president and the minister that the Dominican Republic has been an example for the world and that it is the country that has given the most support to achieve an effective recovery and to be able to successfully rehabilitate its operations in the country, as well as all the jobs that had been lost in the pandemic.
These families who have investments in different countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Spain, United States, among other destinations, indicated that the Dominican Republic has been the example to follow and where they have been able to recover the fastest.
Minister Collado expressed in the meeting that the success that has been achieved has been thanks to the close work and the public-private alliance that has been carried out through the Cabinet of Tourism headed by the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader.
The Spanish businessmen also informed the authorities that as of today they have more than 5 thousand job vacancies in the Bávaro Punta Cana area and say that this is due to the fact that the Dominican market recovered very quickly and now they have to hire personnel again.
President Luis Abinader appointed a commission to attend to these employment needs which will include the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, the Minister of Labor, Luis Miguel Decamps and the director of Infotep.
It was reported that there will be job fairs in the area and training of personnel to meet these vacancies.
