Grupo De Valle’s big bet on the Dominican Republic: 4,500 rooms to be added by 2030
Grupo De Valle has demonstrated its interest and commitment to tourism in the Dominican Republic by having on its agenda the completion of a plan for several hotel developments throughout the country by 2030.
This was confirmed to arecoa.com by Edward De Valle, CEO of Grupo De Valle, indicating that they have a ‘vision 2030’ where they will have more than 20 hotels with a total of 4,500 rooms. “The idea is to have a Wyndham hotel 30 minutes from every city in the DR.
He detailed that this is why they are building a Days Inn in Juan Dolio, a Super 8 in Cotui, Cabrera and Nagua; La Quinta San Francisco de Macorís, “we are opening Wyndham Garden Montecristi, we have a Super 8 by Wyndham Manzanillo…”.
“So in reality this country is going to have for the first time a network of hotels so that Dominicans can enjoy their country,” he said.
He said that the investment for all the projects they are working on is around US$500 million.
De Valle said that along with his bet they want other brands to join him in developing more rooms in the country, but he understands that “the destinations are small and we have to go little by little, being the business group the anchor in each city, putting those provinces on the map because then other brands such as Marriott, Hyatt… and we are proudly betting on the DR”.
With the large number of projects that the group has in the pipeline, the executive said that in addition to providing rooms, they would be contributing to human capital by providing jobs (direct and indirect) in each province where a hotel is built.
“The number of employees that the group would be generating with the hotel constructions would be more than 6,000 when the operations of all of them start. Indirectly it is already incalculable because each project has different construction times,” he said.
By Andreina Germán, ARECOA
