–
Punta Cana, Dominican R..- The Regional Commercial Director of the North American AMResorts, Luis Nuñez, assured that the hotel is preparing to comply with the new measures announced by the United States government to require a negative PCR test for all travelers entering its territory, including returning residents, which will take effect on January 26.
The executive exclusively detailed to Punta Cana Bavaro Online, that the measure published by the United States Government details that the required PCR tests can be, as an alternative, the “antigen” and not just the “molecular” one, how it happened in Canada and some countries in South America, which is more expensive and difficult to process and therefore causes more inconvenience to travelers and the health systems of destinations.
One of the alternative required tests published by the CDC is the “antigen” (SARS-CoV-2 ANTIGEN) “Which is extremely fast, approximately 15 minutes to obtain the result, is cheap and can be purchased in large quantities in a short time without problems, it can also be done in the same hotel or local airports ”. “For this reason the current health system of the Dominican destination will not be affected and they will not collapse”, “since it can be perfectly manageable with the existing resources in the Dominican Republic,” said the executive confidently.
For this reason, AMResorts began to work with agencies and direct guests to announce the new measures imposed by their government and that the hotel, “They will guarantee all their clients the required tests free of charge for their return to the country without problems.”
For this, the hotel company sealed an agreement with two of the largest laboratories in the country and “We secure about 16,000 SARS-CoV-2 ANTIGEN tests monthly, which is what we require for both February and Marchor, detailed Nuñez, also ensuring that “these will be taken in the same hotels for the convenience of tourists, also with agreements with Hospiten according to the concession that each hotel has.
Another measure to try to keep reservations and that cancellations do not occur both in the Dominican Republic and in other destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico, is that the hotel company will provide free insurance where the client will have “free accommodation” in case of testing positive for Covid-19 before their return, among other palliative measures that are complemented by others taken by the different destinations.
Luis Nuñez hopes that these measures will not be varied in the immediate future, “As long as an” antigen “PCR test is accepted, I do not see that the flow of travelers has a significant decrease As happened with other markets that require “molecular” PCR, this could endanger the tourist operation from the United States to the country, “concluded the executive.
Punta Cana Bavaro Online
