THE Dominican Republic is gambling it can turn one of its poorest and most remote regions – home to wild goats, a defunct bauxite mine and little else – into one of the Caribbean’s hottest tourist destinations.
Built from scratch near the Haitian border, the Pedernales-Cabo Rojo tourism project now under construction will include 12,000 hotel rooms, an international airport, a marina, a seaside promenade, and roads, sewage and electricity infrastructure to handle millions of visitors per year.
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