Increased crime, garbage, and political corruption??? No way... You think these factors have gotten worse since Hipolito left office??? German tourism on the North Coast has decreased because prices have gone up. Period. Just look at Jardin Deportivo, just east of Cabarete... it was an almost 100% german enclave with VERY low priced hotels. Owned by Germans...for Germans. The average price for all-inclusive was less than $25 per night. As soon as the Hoteliers raised their prices to try to just BREAK EVEN, the Germans stopped coming. The entire area is now depressed with almost all hotels empty, closed and for sale...its like a ghost town...A few exceptions, of course, Like Casa Blanca, Costa Verde, and the "new hotel" with the rainbow flags... but these were properties bought or built after the collapse by people trying to re-vitalize the area. The crime increased after the Germans stopped coming.
calling the DR "another Haiti" is stupid...c'mon... who pee'd in your cornflakes this morning?
and DonJuan, to answer your question, "who wants to go there"?
Answer: More people than ever before, and more people than anywhere else in the Caribbean...except maybe... GERMANS!
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