Tourism Chief: DMO will create new industry jobs
September 24, 2012
Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Luis Rivera Marín reiterated the government’s commitment to developing the tourism industry through the creation of a Destination Management Organization, which should increase the sector’s economic contributions and generate more jobs.
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‘Priceless Puerto Rico’ program exceeds 1st year expectations
August 30, 2012
Puerto Rico’s inclusion in MasterCard’s “Priceless Cities” program has resulted in higher-than-expected levels of success during its first year and is now being set up for an expansion beyond the San Juan metropolitan area into other towns with brisk tourism activity.
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San Juan among favored Labor Day vacation spots
August 3, 2012
Online airfare search engine Fly.com unveiled Thursday North America’s top 10 most popular travel destinations for Labor Day, listing San Juan as the fourth favorite spot chosen based on data from more than 3 million user searches.
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Exec: Illegal slots undercut casino revenues by $170M
July 26, 2012
The proliferation of illegal slot machines affects more than 2,800 casino employees, who are at risk of losing their jobs over the closure of casinos operating in Puerto Rico, Eric Rodríguez, vice president of the casinos division of Empresas Santana warned Wednesday.
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Crystal Serenity making maiden call to Ponce port in December
July 18, 2012
The ultra-luxe Crystal Serenity will sail into the southern port of Ponce to ring in the New Year, marking its first visit to Puerto Rico, parent company Crystal Cruises announced Tuesday.
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Tourism Co. announces late summer ‘paradores’ deals
July 16, 2012
Puerto Rico residents looking to get away during the final weeks of summer can choose to stay at any of 17 “paradores” (small inns) offering special rates, Tourism Company Executive Director Luis Rivera Marín said over the weekend.
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Spanish, Mexican groups submit final bids for LMM contract
July 11, 2012
The two finalists in the running to take over the operations of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina for the next 40 years, Mexico’s Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste and Spain’s Grupo Aeropuertos Avance, submitted their final proposals to the government Tuesday and now must wait two or three weeks to know their fate. […]
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Tourism chief checks ground transportation services at LMM’s Terminal ‘A’
June 12, 2012
Tourism Company Executive Director Luis Rivera-Marín on Monday went to check the work being done in the area of ground transportation service at Terminal A, what is now known as the JetBlue Terminal at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
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Roosy Roads Authority signs catamaran builder as 1st tenant
May 22, 2012
The Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Authority announced Monday it has signed its first tenant, a company dedicated to building catamarans.
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JetBlue supports P3 for LMM, invests $3M to move into Terminal A
May 17, 2012
New York-based JetBlue is marking its 10th year of service in Puerto Rico by investing $3 million to move into its own terminal facility at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport this summer. And although the carrier is not officially calling its local operation a hub, its 40 daily flights, and counting, have made it Puerto Rico’s dominant carrier.
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Caribbean hotel officials: Cruise ships need to pay their fair share of taxes
May 15, 2012
Hoteliers are generally optimistic that 2012 will bring a modest recovery to Caribbean tourism arrivals, but at a recent conference in San Juan, there was plenty of grumbling that for too long, hotels have been shouldering an unfair tax burden when compared to the cruise industry.
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Caribbean tourism ministers welcome, not fear, end to Cuba travel restrictions
May 7, 2012
For years, the conventional wisdom was that an eventual end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba would open the floodgates for millions of curious Americans dying to visit the once-forbidden island — while the rest of the Caribbean would, at least initially, suffer a sharp downturn in U.S. tourist arrivals.
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Caribbean targets 2 new markets: South America, Russia
May 3, 2012
Caribbean islands are aggressively courting new tourism markets as restrictive U.K. airline taxes and hard times in the United States keep thousands of potential British and American visitors at home.
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Diageo offers $55K in scholarships for ‘Learning for Life’ initiative
March 13, 2012
British liquor producer Diageo has kicked off the recruitment of college students interested in participating in its “Learning for Life” program, an eight-week hands-on training on Puerto Rico’s service and tourism industry.
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5th edition of Puerto Rico Open generates $4.7M ‘greens’
March 7, 2012
The 5th edition of the Puerto Rico Open taking place in Río Grande through Sunday will generate some significant “greens” for the island, estimated at more than $4.7 million in direct benefits and more than $22 million in indirect economic activity, Tourism Company Executive Director Mario González-Lafuente said during a news conference Tuesday.
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