Hoteliers see diplomatic management key to restrictions in the United States and Canada – Tourism news

Andres Marranzini, Executive Vice President of the Association of Hotels and Tourism of the Dominican Republic (Asonahores), stated that the restrictive measures recently imposed by U.S Y Canada, to prevent the entry of the new variants of Covid-19, represents a “hard blow” for the advance of the reactivation of the country’s tourism industry.

Said why Dominican Republic evolution positively plays an important role the diplomatic capacity to manage that the referred nations reconsider or receive the information that they are working to minimize the impact of the virus on the sector.

“The measure really impacts and the measure of that impact will definitely have to do with the response capacity that the country that receives tourists from those sending countries may have, in the sense of how we are managing the issue of the virus and health of the country, “he added.

He stated that, “Also the alliances in which it is possible to build and demonstrate the strength of the sector because not only the local company is affected, but also the international company that invests and has businesses in the country, and that some of they are from countries that have restrictions ”.

Marranzini said that the situation in itself is difficult, while reiterating that quarantine in the United States is not mandatory, but voluntary, and if it changes “it would be terrible for us as a sector and for everything we have done for the recovery of the tourism industry in the DR ”.

He indicated that despite this, the sector is convinced that the country’s tourism is important for the United States, airlines and tour operators, for which he called on the authorities to return to sit at “the dialogue table” to find a way out of the situation.

“The work is being done so that the measures do not increase and go to make even more a destruction of value of the recovery potential of the sector. We are doing all the effort, the public and private sectors, and the Tourism Cabinet to save tourism, the jobs it provides and what it contributes to the economy, “he said.

The manager reiterated that as long as the scenario of providing tests for Covid-19 and antigens exists, the country is able to respond.

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