Effective exchange of business opportunities & actions!

Delegation Meetings with:

• Mileyka Brugal- Puerto Plata Chamber of Commerce President
• Aerodom's (Governmental airport entity) Carlos Rodoli Conde- Director & Fernando Pelaez- Manager
• SILVER AIRWAYS- prior, & at event booth
• PR Tourism Company
• Blue Jack Tar Village Hotel
• Ron Brugal & Ron Macorix
• Ramon Barquin- CUD's President Elect & PRUSACC Co-Founder & Board Member, member of PRUSACC's PR Delegation
• Margaret Ramirez- CCPR atended, we held meetings on collaborative opportunities with CUD & PRUSACC
• Pending Next Steps: further negotiations in PR, PUERTO PLATA ROAD SHOW 3/21-22/ in Ponce & SJ, PR- PRUSACC will collaborate & participate, invited leading tour wholesalers

Opportunities for several investments are being explored, both in DR & PR

• International studies college students exchanges are now being explored
• Potential new campus of a PR institution being explored
• Incubator/Accelerator

• Connection established with Tom O'Neal, board member, & conversations held w/ Colmena 66, Parallel 18 & Echar Pa'Lante
• Initial conversations with the Global Entrepreneurship Congress for DR to participate in SJ, PR GEC+PR, June 15-18, 2024

• To promote trade, tourism, industrial projects and goodwill.
• First success story: SILVER AIRWAYS direct new route from San Juan, PR to Puerto Plata, DR launched December 9, 2023.
• Serve as a bridge w/ other PR organizations & based in US continent, such as the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, already started.

• Collaborative opportunities and specific initiatives were explored with a fellow PR businessman already sucessfully operating in Puerto Plata, DR.
• Last Year's Keynote Speaker: Gerardo Gonzalez Nunez, PhD Economist, Expert on Caribbean Tourism & Author of the 2023 industry reference book: "Caribbean Tourism: Past, Present & Future"

               PRUSACC Board Member

• Meetings held w/ the PR Tourism Company's Executive Director Carlos Mercado and ED for PR's Office in DR, Lcdo. Nelson R. Torres Martinez to explore opportunities & last year to discuss new airline routes- sucessfully achieved with SILVER Airways.
• Coordination with SILVER Airways to maximize mutual support, sponsorship & delegation matters.