"Why aren’t Dominican Republic holiday resorts more expensive?"…they asked

We replied: "Dominican Republic holiday resorts aren't more expensive because..."

Below we publish a heartfelt ‘article’ posted in answer to a query on ‘Thorntree’, the great forum run by Lonely Planet. This was posted in response to the interesting question of why the Dominican Republic holiday resorts and vacations are so relatively ‘cheap’ to compared with other Caribbean resorts, and why aren’t Dominican resorts better known as the great Caribbean options that they are!:-

“We started our Dominican Republic holiday resorts travel information site a few months ago now in our own small effort (as two Dominican sisters - currently out of our lovely country!) to promote the land we love...and to keep us in touch with home as we run our 'Information on Dominican Republic holiday resorts and more'- questions and answers 'service'. We agree that it may seem odd that the Dominican Republic was the first place 'discovered' by Columbus when he sailed to the 'New World'...but has become one of the last places recognized by tourists as being a major 'Caribbean' vacation venue!

Over the last few decades, say since the 60's, many other resorts in the Caribbean have developed from occasional 'stop-over' spots for 'real travellers' (rather than just tourists) to becoming the haunt of millions of tourists on a regular basis. It is probably the case that a couple of major influences have 'held back' the speed with which Dominican Republic holiday resorts have joined the 'fray'...and why the DR itself has remained for along time, so-called "the best kept secret of the Caribbean".....


The whole text of this article is now published at:

http://www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com/dominican-republic-holiday-resorts.html

Together with links to information we have published about several Dominican Republic holiday resorts...with more to come soon!

R 15/03/05
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