{"id":486730,"date":"2025-10-14T16:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/un-tourism-recognizes-david-collado-as-the-minister-of-the-americas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:19:45","slug":"un-tourism-recognizes-david-collado-as-the-minister-of-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/un-tourism-recognizes-david-collado-as-the-minister-of-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Tourism recognizes David Collado as &#8220;the minister of the Americas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo,.-<\/strong> The <strong>World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)<\/strong> recognized this Tuesday the Minister of Tourism of the Dominican Republic, David Collado, as <strong>&#8220;the minister of the Americas&#8221;<\/strong> for &#8220;his visionary and transformative leadership in the sector&#8221;.\n\n<strong>&#8220;This award, of an unprecedented and institutional nature, recognizes the outstanding work of Minister Collado in promoting tourism as a driver of economic development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability in the Latin American and Caribbean region,&#8221;<\/strong> highlighted the Dominican Ministry of Tourism in a statement.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/david-c-turismo-no-tiene-colores\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"528639\">David Collado: \u201cTourism has no partisan colors\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe initiative is part of the new UN Tourism program that seeks to highlight public figures who, from their positions, promote concrete policies and actions with a significant impact on the tourism industry.\n\nThe recognition was presented by the Executive Secretary of UN Tourism, Natalia Bayona, who valued Collado&#8217;s management of the Ministry of Tourism since August 2020, during an international conversation on tourism cooperation.\n\nTourism, the country&#8217;s main source of foreign currency, has been breaking records since its recovery after the coronavirus pandemic; 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