LINKS on the Web related to environmental and sustainable tourism in Dominican Republic.

Still not very much documents on this issues, we hope toput on-line quite a few, always check our Web Publications our virtual library for more links to spanish full text documents, and our listing of sustainable/eco tourism projects in Dominican Rep.

• Document of the Workshop on ecotourism in 1996  (1996 Taller Sobre Ecoturismo en la República Dominicana), report edited by Alberto Rodríguez Liriano y John Shores
• From the 2nd Ecotourism fair web held in 1998 in Dominican Rep  Eco tour Virtual (all in spanish):
• the documents:
• La biodiversidad en la República Dominicana, por Eleuterio Martínez especialista ambiental Presidente Consejo Nacional de Urbanismo (muchas mas aquí)
• Ecoturismo y desarrollo sosteniblepor Sixto Incháustegui Oficial ambiental, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, part (1)  and (2)
• El ecoturismo cultural y su potencial en la República Dominicana

por  Celsa Albert Directora General de Cultura, Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Cultura
• ESCENARIO : La Región del Cibao
• La fundación y evolución histórica de Santiago Ponencia Osvaldo Cepeda y Cepeda Coronel Fuerza Aerea Dominicana.
• the interviews of :
• Entrevista Luis Rosiche Animador Cultural
• IVONNE ARIAS Presidenta Grupo Jaragua, Inc.
• RAFAEL ALMANZAR Director Grupo Folklórico "Areito"
• CELSA ALBERT.Directora General de Cultura, Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Cultura
• BISMARCK ROQUE  Director Grupo Músico-Vocal CURSA-UASD
• YUVERKIS MEJIA TORRES,  COORDINADORA VENTAS COMERSA, LA VEGA.
• FABIOLA ARTESANA ECUADOR
• Arq. Julio Corral Asesor urbanístico Ayuntamiento de Santiago
• Some references on Dominican Rep. in the Book review of America Verde Publications of The Nature Conservancy
• Libro de pasatiempos del Acuario Nacional Description of an educative book on aquatic life  of the National Aquarium, in  Spanish
• In the magaxine La Costa (Revista Mensual Para Turista y Residentes) 2 papers in spanish:
• Profundas razones provocan la prostitucion infantil. Why child prostitution is raising
• AUMENTAN VISITAS A RD POR ECOTURISMO: more visitors to natural parks.
• Earth Pledge Foundation presented The Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Nov/Dec of '95 at the Punta Cana Beach Resort in the Dominican Republic. The proceedings are on web site.

in particular "Sustainable Tourism: If You Build it They Will Come" by Frank Rainieri, Punta Cana Beach Resort.
• Samaná Biosphere Reserve,  Dominican Republic Sustainable Development  Strategy by OMAR RAMIREZ TEJADA, CEBSE ROSA A LAMELAS, CEBSE    WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ARTURO LÓPEZ, IUCN
• An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Conservation and Sustainable Development in and around Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. 1995. Edited by John Schelhas....
• Some reference to Dominican Republic in the articles:
• The Impact of Tourism on the Environment by Milton Ponson (c) ECO ARUBA 1995 Evidence of the negative impact of tourism in the Caribbean is found in many islands.....
• The Association of Caribbean States: The Role of Trade and Tourism
• Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation in the Wider Caribbean
• Best Management Practices for Carribean Coastal Tourism
• Ecotourism: Fad or Future?  by Dennis J. Gayle in HEMISPHERE MAGAZINE. The tourism industry in the Caribbean has long been a vital source of income for the development of the region. Its expansion, however, has also been identified as a major threat to the region's environmental stability....
• ECOTOURISM : Paradise gained, or paradise lost?   Paradise on earth is under threat. The most inaccessible tropical rain forests, the most fragile coral reef systems, the remotest tribal peoples, are now within easy reach of the global ecotourist.
• In Spanish the foreigner guide: GUIA DEL EXTRANJERO EN LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA of the Unidad Intersectorial de Turismo OEA-OAS

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