Miami.– Airline cutbacks could send Caribbean beachgoers elsewhere this winter.
This is a growing concern of tourism industry leaders as they
grapple with a double whammy of reduced air service and a slumping U.S. economy.
A reduction in air service –the only way for most Americans to reach the
Caribbean's white-sand beaches– could make the journey less convenient and
airfares more expensive, ultimately discouraging trips.
"Every seat that we lose is an opportunity for a tourist to come to the
Caribbean," says Enrique De Marchena Kaluche, president of the Caribbean Hotel
Association and co-chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Development Co.
For December, U.S. airlines scheduled 17 percent less service from the lower
48 states to the Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands, compared with December 2007, according to an analysis of OAG flight
schedules.
Service is down to the four most-served islands. In December, Puerto Rico and
the Dominican Republic will have 26 percent less service; Jamaica is down 15
percent, and the Bahamas down 10 percent.
Written by: jonbonz, 24 Aug 2008 10:03 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Now would be the time to drop the Jet fuel tax and airport fees to make the destination more economically viable for the airlines
From: Dominican Republic
si .. si .. make gratis ..
From: United States
The present Domincan decison makers remind me of the Canadian decision makers of the 1980's.
Their creedo at the time of the Canadian government was the government needs more money to grow and further its internal cause so lets raise interest rates on Governemt bonds paid out, and lets raise income taxes.
As some international residents will remember that was Canada's financial downfall and created a exasperating recession.
I personally beleive that Leonel and his Cabinet have had training from the Canadians that were in power at the time.
In a way Leonel remeinds me a lot of the thinkig of Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was also a very wealthy socialist lawyer.
From: United States
JH:
The Canadian attache John "Hans" Goulet Hudson, is Trudeau's kindred brood.
The Creme de la Creme of Quebec; Acadien Savant. With his eugenics and his social engineering degree.
He didn't really attend McGill University; He's actually an alumanus of Christian Bros. College (the diddlers)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/01/30/settlement040130.html...He's constantly trying to impress the have-nots on the Island, talking about his many exploits around the seven seas. His done this, he's been there! He's the stereotypical Commader McCrank. Constantly divulging bum data. He's feeding the country lies, and a bill of goods.
When in reality his a crackpot pansy with a lust for "butching" his way around ignorant folks.
So, it's no accident that apparently he's befriended some influential politicians, and offered them some of his buried treasure maps. You pirate of the Caribbean; I call him a Gay Lothario!
Backwards philosopher, economist, pink fascist. Oh, Canada!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Right you are about Prince Pierre Canadas biggest mistake in history Jimi
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
that is very funny Arsenio very amusing.....I thought you were just a dumb putz
From: United States
Putz? Wait.....Putz?
So, you are a Montrealer of the Yiddish persuasion.
I don't get it. You're Acadien, by surname.......1/2 Irish by boasts.....
What you're a few centimetres Askenasi?
You get a failing grade for your lying, and an F for your false math.
You don't add up!
You're simply marvelous! Not, you're a fraud!
From: United States
And the majority will go where? Overpriced Miami? any beach town, now-a-days?
Please, that is for the rich and famous, the other 80% need the Dominican republic.
From: United States
Some of the Southerners, and flagrant Rednecks will go to Daytona Beach....The one tooth capital of southern Georgia!
And yes, DR 'criollos' need a prolonged Labor Day/Independence Day/Memorial Day, hiatus from their monotonous deprived existence, too!
Written by: BLANCO, 24 Aug 2008 11:41 AM
From: Dominican Republic
who is the fat guy in the red shorts in the picture. must have been taken on the beach of sosua. tdhis is a model of fitness!!!!
From: United States
That's John Goulet, the Dune Bugger!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
arse enio AlambonJr....you are mistaken you read to much between the lines....always claim by birth as Toronto born and raised ....half Irish half French half Anglican half Catholic....from Quebec I know nothing except the Plains of Abraham...show me where I have said otherwise you putz you know the difference from a schmuck dont you..... a schmuck is useful
From: United States
Or maybe you're partially a schlmeel: Either way you're a prankster, turned bed & breakfast innkeeper selling dreams to strangers....Stop with the patronizing of a foreign cause.
You red coat, RCMP, big fish in a small pond dillusional misfit with a penchant for grandiosity.
Come down to earth and face your fears, you're washed up, burned out, and speaking of outs, outed!
The Nile {Denial} is not only a river in Egypt!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
if you want to do yiddish learn to spell...Shlemiel...but that is not important your obsession about being belittled by the Boricuas and the Cubans this has been your cause...tell us about it come on get it off your chest ...How they used to roll their eyes when you said you were a Dominican it really scarred you to hear those Dominican jokes
From: United States
No what scars me is to see some two-bit don't have a pot to pee in stumble bum, putting on airs on the web, assuming he knows what's best for a nation where he's a babe in the woods. He points out people's pedigree as if he were (CKA) Canadian Kennel Association. You know about huskies...Here you're no--body! You turn coat Aryan Dominion of Canada Social Nationalist leech. That's my beef. The perpetrator know it alls, who claim they know when they are dumber than a nail. Blab about Diefenbaker, and how your nation never fought for independence; How the Britt's just gave you the pink slip after sustaining your commonwealth for over 3oo years......Talk about that you infiltrator, turned Calie!
Are you MI5 or MI6? Red Coat with a yellow streak sophisticate.... Is it tea time, in the tropics, yet?
Beaulah, peal a grape....And I'll have the truffles with mine.
From: United States
Our man in Santo Domingo...
. Are you still in her majesty's service? Hans?
From: United States
What are ya making ends meet by selling beaver pelts there, now?
You Canuck algonquin fur trader!
From: United States
And for those that didn't read my post 4 days ago; I'll play it again:
Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 20 Aug 2008 9:25 AM
From: United States (pero Capitaleño)
The whole country can't be a disneyworld for tourists. Manufacturing has to be expanded, Agriculture for domestic consumption extended, Education encouraged. These are other avenues for development. If you just rely on one ace in the hole, your'e bound to lose.
Keep in mind the popular cat-phrase: 'Global Warming'
It will eventually restrict international air travel. Unless the natives can afford all this malarkey you dream up, none of these resorts will survive. Thousands of empty hotel rooms, suites, and bungalows. And yes, empty golf courses, too! Because of empty skies, and empty stomachs........Pongase las pilas, compadres.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
I have carried two passports for many years ...The Canadian one in case The plane was hijacked by Desert People...you see I was the actual immigrant your Mommy and Daddy stood in all the lines for you
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
A follower of Ozone Al no less .....100% loser no hope
From: United States
Here we go off on a dessert safari story now....in Marakech or Algiers.....El Alemeigne....Any way, tell us about your forays in the Sahara with the French Foreign Legion led by General De Gaulle.....Fighting Rommel and his pink Panzers..... Prozac is a beautiful think...
What are they going for in El Parque Independencia?
From: United States
On a Caravanserai or A night in Tunisia........My suggestion is you can; You can Take the a Train to the Metro north Commuter, get off at Albany, catch a Greyhound west towards the border through the N.Y. Thruway back to your roost...The Canadian Kingdom of snow, and trailers. Throw away those counterfiet passports, soon you'll all (by the benevollent socialist regime) be implanted with a chip in the great white north....AKA Canada.
From: United States
HMS Agent 000 "Hans" alias the Rock-
This is the pedigree that should interest you and its ramifications (your heritage):
I will compromise on anything, but, speaking for myself, not to the extent of the removal of the union jack from our national flag.
—John Diefenbaker
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
you are clairvoyant Rouses Point New York where my green card was issued at point of entry Nov 1964...I am only going back to visit ....will never live there again....now I am a Yanqui and proud of it....just like your old man used to write on the walls ...Yanqui go home and take me with you
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
they called him Dief the Chief.....He was from western Canada and he is loathed for scrapping the AVRO arrow airplane....that flag was called the Canadian Ensign...and he probably did say that
From: United States
Rouses Point? On lac Champlain?
Between Vert-mont & Quebec?
1. You're lucky I didn't catch you sneaking accross the border when you infiltrated the U.S. You see I was stationed in Plattsbugh A.F. B. and patrolled the northern stretches of the Adirondacks in the North Country looking for Game. Moose, Elk. Looking for Rene Levesque and your campatriots...Je me souviens, aussi.
2. We in the DR are invaded by a turncoat RAF on a secret mission.....Occupied by an agent with an alien agenda. An enemy in disguise. A socialist pseudo-materialist agenda. Fascism!
3. The U.S. fought against your like several times, even the red coats from Canada. You remained loyalist while Americans fell to the Red Coat's muskets....Then, they retreated to Ottowa, and Saskatoon.
So, you're twice personna non grata.
An enenemy presence with disdain for my kind, incognito in la Patria.
I missed you on St. Catherine St. near the Bonaventure Hotel, and the Limelight Disco, too.
From: United States
P.S. there you go again throwing my people in the disscussion. for your information, my father was Union Civica, not PCD. A conservative, with the right...never the left...That's what you are a leftist, playing both sides for show. My Dad left the DR in 1963, and never would have dreamed of writing graffiti...That's for Tigres, that's not our identity....You confuse us with your compadres from Villa Mella, and your neighbors in Villa Duarte, partner. We were not trujillistas, but, never, ever, communists! And none of us were in the DR in 1965....FYI.......My father was an accountant...Not a carbonero, or platanero, ok. Mister know it all! Mister expo 67! You way...way of base.
By dealing with disdain (since you have no social contact) with the vendors, and service people in DR; You assume all people there are peons, like you. John E. come lately Goulet Hudson alias Rock Hudson.
From: Dominican Republic
What are you guys smoking? The article dealt with air service reduction to the Caribbean. Wow!!!!!!!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Juan dont worry when it gets cold we will be beating them off with a stick .........What years were you in the USAF ? I used to drink a lot at Andersen air base 65 and 66 nicer clubs than USN......Montreal I know from nothing was only there once in my life ....Manhattan now thats different....in 65 when the marines came in I was in Brunswick Georgia being introduced to grits and bbq..I knew where Santo Domingo was but never heard of the Dominican Republic......El Drago and all that stuff .....at the same moment the marines were marching in santo domingo was when Marichal hit Roseboro over the head with a bat ...I vividly remember that
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
go ahead hit that bong again....and sorry about the frogs dissing you in Montreal
From: United States
after reading Arsenio, i am afraid to approach my pc keyboard for the next few weeks. the man is formidable, and i do not want to end up on his bad side again. but, let me just note, with care, that projections are that the DR, along with other caribbean territories, will register Zero growth for tourism this year.not good. with all the investment in plant and equipment, such as hotel rooms, tour buses, offices, etc. average productivity per unit will be reduced, and that is one of the critical aspects of development. if i have one hot dog cart, and i make 100 dollars per month, then i add another cart and still make the same 100, i have gone backwards!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
dread Tourism does not need to grow and it is still booming....forget about the wheelbarrow factory for now
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
arrivals were up 750 thousand last year and they were staying in renovated dumps many of them
Written by: jonbonz, 24 Aug 2008 7:13 PM
From: Dominican Republic
what years were you in the USAF ? I used to drink a lot at Andersen air base 65 and 66 nicer clubs than USN......
Hey Subic was nice too.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
never floated I was a zoomie.....NAS Agana...flew into Cubi Pt. a few times but never hit the club there nor Alongeppo city
Written by: jonbonz, 24 Aug 2008 7:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic
I was on the White Plains in Apra Harbor april 86-may 89
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
when i was stationed in Guam 21 years before that there was only one stoplight on the island
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
Written by: gouletcolonial, 24 Aug 2008 7:55 PM
From: Canada
when i was stationed in Guam 21 years before that there was only one stoplight on the island
I met some people from there when i was in the army, I wanted to go visit
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Chill it seems so long ago I was just kid of 19 it was beautiful and tropical after that Canada was not a place I was going to be in the winter ever again....big shortage of chicks ...we used to go to Hong Kong and Japan when we could save up enough money..but the people were nice and the water was beautiful ...I also flew to Saipan and Tinian from where they dropped the big one from on Hiroshima
Written by: antonioj, 25 Aug 2008 2:23 AM
From: Canada, Oakville on terra firma
"Written by: dreadlocks, 24 Aug 2008 4:03 PM
From: United States
after reading Arsenio, i am afraid to approach my pc keyboard for the next few weeks. the man is formidable, and i do not want to end up on his bad side again. but, let me just note, with care, that projections are that the DR, along with other caribbean territory"
I have to say both Arsenio and Glout are very articulate, they took the forum to a higher level, however I have to give it to Arsenio I am impressed with his knowledge of past and present Canadian history.
From: Dominican Republic
no turista .. no trabajo .. no comer ..
Written by: Escott, 25 Aug 2008 2:44 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Sosua/Cabrera
You guys need to purchase a life...
Written by: antonioj, 25 Aug 2008 8:17 PM
From: Canada, Oakville on terra firma
"
gouletculonial, 25 Aug 2008 12:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
no turista .. no trabajo .. no comer ..
"
ya ya... enough, you are no longer funny.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Tonyj when did you move to Mexico ....its the wrong time of the year wait till Nov...or another drug shipment setup
Written by: antonioj, 25 Aug 2008 10:09 PM
From: Canada, Oakville on terra firma
"
Written by: gouletcolonial, 25 Aug 2008 8:48 PM
From: Canada
Tonyj when did you move to Mexico ....its the wrong time of the year wait till Nov...or another drug shipment setup
"
I am on vacation with the wife and kids, back home September 15... This is a little paradise on earth... they do not speak that much Spanish. here!!. I miss my rice and beans.
This is the low season I see what I can do, hope I can bribe custom
From: United States
Goulet, if tourism stagnates to zero growth for the year, i hope you will post that growth does not matter next year this time!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
arrivals is less important than the amount of money left behind and the growing quality of the product ...Less reliance on European charters and more short stay Americans..... more Ritz less Barcelo...remember there is no wheelbarrow manufacturing plant in this countrys future
From: United States
and, GC, i hope you are not saying that the amount of money left behind is going to increase. with the current dyspepsia in the US economy, there are less short stay americans coming here. i have several friends who used to come here several times per year, who have suspended visiting indefinitely, because of economic uncertainty in the states, and the extortionate cost of travel tickets. those who want to come can't even get a seat, what with the cutbacks.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
dread if you had spent as much time traveling around to different islands during high season ...then you would know how expensive it really is.I mean 300 to 400 dollars a night average ...The DR is the new discovered bargain the contractions will be at these points as people look for and discover better value...Nothing will stop the snowbirds with money and they are still legion you will see ...the only problem will be lift as it is every year LIFT enough seats
From: United States
Gc, you confuse me. first you say that we are aiming for the high dollar tourists, the ones who go to the Ritz, as opposed to Barcelo. then you introduce the concept of "bargains ". since when do Ritz-Carlton types concern themselves with the price of rooms? the fact of the matter is that the country derives marginally more money from the rich as opposed to the middle class. true it is that the rich pay a heck of a lot more for their hotel room, but most of that money is repatriated, anyway. a very small percentage of the ultra expensive hotels are locally owned. and there is no study i have seen which indicates that rich people spend more money than poorer people on vacation. they may drink expensive booze, and eat high dollar dinners, but, since so much of that has an imported component, it does not translate to much of anything, except big numbers. benefits are a different story.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
the larger contraction will be in the middle class ....thus making the tremendous value apparent...the Luxe nothing will stop them....I see it as the same as real estate the second home market here is still pretty strong among Americans here
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Their creedo at the time of the Canadian government was the government needs more money to grow and further its internal cause so lets raise interest rates on Governemt bonds paid out, and lets raise income taxes.
As some international residents will remember that was Canada's financial downfall and created a exasperating recession.
I personally beleive that Leonel and his Cabinet have had training from the Canadians that were in power at the time.
In a way Leonel remeinds me a lot of the thinkig of Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was also a very wealthy socialist lawyer.
The Canadian attache John "Hans" Goulet Hudson, is Trudeau's kindred brood.
The Creme de la Creme of Quebec; Acadien Savant. With his eugenics and his social engineering degree.
He didn't really attend McGill University; He's actually an alumanus of Christian Bros. College (the diddlers) http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/01/30/settlement040130.html...
He's constantly trying to impress the have-nots on the Island, talking about his many exploits around the seven seas. His done this, he's been there! He's the stereotypical Commader McCrank. Constantly divulging bum data. He's feeding the country lies, and a bill of goods.
When in reality his a crackpot pansy with a lust for "butching" his way around ignorant folks.
So, it's no accident that apparently he's befriended some influential politicians, and offered them some of his buried treasure maps. You pirate of the Caribbean; I call him a Gay Lothario!
Backwards philosopher, economist, pink fascist. Oh, Canada!
So, you are a Montrealer of the Yiddish persuasion.
I don't get it. You're Acadien, by surname.......1/2 Irish by boasts.....
What you're a few centimetres Askenasi?
You get a failing grade for your lying, and an F for your false math.
You don't add up!
You're simply marvelous! Not, you're a fraud!
And the majority will go where? Overpriced Miami? any beach town, now-a-days?
Please, that is for the rich and famous, the other 80% need the Dominican republic.
And yes, DR 'criollos' need a prolonged Labor Day/Independence Day/Memorial Day, hiatus from their monotonous deprived existence, too!
You red coat, RCMP, big fish in a small pond dillusional misfit with a penchant for grandiosity.
Come down to earth and face your fears, you're washed up, burned out, and speaking of outs, outed!
The Nile {Denial} is not only a river in Egypt!
Are you MI5 or MI6? Red Coat with a yellow streak sophisticate.... Is it tea time, in the tropics, yet?
Beaulah, peal a grape....And I'll have the truffles with mine.
. Are you still in her majesty's service? Hans?
You Canuck algonquin fur trader!
Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 20 Aug 2008 9:25 AM
From: United States (pero Capitaleño)
The whole country can't be a disneyworld for tourists. Manufacturing has to be expanded, Agriculture for domestic consumption extended, Education encouraged. These are other avenues for development. If you just rely on one ace in the hole, your'e bound to lose.
Keep in mind the popular cat-phrase: 'Global Warming'
It will eventually restrict international air travel. Unless the natives can afford all this malarkey you dream up, none of these resorts will survive. Thousands of empty hotel rooms, suites, and bungalows. And yes, empty golf courses, too! Because of empty skies, and empty stomachs........Pongase las pilas, compadres.
What are they going for in El Parque Independencia?
This is the pedigree that should interest you and its ramifications (your heritage):
I will compromise on anything, but, speaking for myself, not to the extent of the removal of the union jack from our national flag.
—John Diefenbaker
Between Vert-mont & Quebec?
1. You're lucky I didn't catch you sneaking accross the border when you infiltrated the U.S. You see I was stationed in Plattsbugh A.F. B. and patrolled the northern stretches of the Adirondacks in the North Country looking for Game. Moose, Elk. Looking for Rene Levesque and your campatriots...Je me souviens, aussi.
2. We in the DR are invaded by a turncoat RAF on a secret mission.....Occupied by an agent with an alien agenda. An enemy in disguise. A socialist pseudo-materialist agenda. Fascism!
3. The U.S. fought against your like several times, even the red coats from Canada. You remained loyalist while Americans fell to the Red Coat's muskets....Then, they retreated to Ottowa, and Saskatoon.
So, you're twice personna non grata.
An enenemy presence with disdain for my kind, incognito in la Patria.
I missed you on St. Catherine St. near the Bonaventure Hotel, and the Limelight Disco, too.
By dealing with disdain (since you have no social contact) with the vendors, and service people in DR; You assume all people there are peons, like you. John E. come lately Goulet Hudson alias Rock Hudson.
Hey Subic was nice too.
From: Canada
when i was stationed in Guam 21 years before that there was only one stoplight on the island
I met some people from there when i was in the army, I wanted to go visit
From: United States
after reading Arsenio, i am afraid to approach my pc keyboard for the next few weeks. the man is formidable, and i do not want to end up on his bad side again. but, let me just note, with care, that projections are that the DR, along with other caribbean territory"
I have to say both Arsenio and Glout are very articulate, they took the forum to a higher level, however I have to give it to Arsenio I am impressed with his knowledge of past and present Canadian history.
gouletculonial, 25 Aug 2008 12:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
no turista .. no trabajo .. no comer ..
"
ya ya... enough, you are no longer funny.
Written by: gouletcolonial, 25 Aug 2008 8:48 PM
From: Canada
Tonyj when did you move to Mexico ....its the wrong time of the year wait till Nov...or another drug shipment setup
"
I am on vacation with the wife and kids, back home September 15... This is a little paradise on earth... they do not speak that much Spanish. here!!. I miss my rice and beans.
This is the low season I see what I can do, hope I can bribe custom