Forget the days of package tours and all-inclusives. With the recent opening of some very sophisticated hotels, the Dominican Republic is trying to compete with the Caribbean’s most luxurious destinations. From June 2006 By Alexandra Marshall It’s mid-afternoon in Santo Domingo’s Zona Colonial, an 11-square-block district of peeling, cheerfully painted town houses and whitewashed churches [...]
The Next Riviera: Resort Phenomenon
Not so long ago, Mexico’s Riviera Maya was a sleepy stretch of Caribbean coastline. Now every hotel group wants in on the action. Michael Gross traces the evolution of an “it” destination From January 2006 On October 21, just a few weeks after Tropical Storm Stan walloped the Caribbean coast of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Hurricane [...]
U.S. real estate going global
Real estate demands in China and India draw international crowd Monday, July 16, 2007 Inman News The U.S. real estate industry has increasingly global ties, according to a report by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, with residential brokerage companies, developers and others pursuing international expansion in fast-growing markets. “Globalization of the real estate [...]
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