Power outages in Sosúa: a blow to the tourist experience
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Sosúa woke up on Monday with complaints from several neighborhoods about blackouts lasting up to four hours, according to Dominican Today. In the middle of a heat wave, being without electricity for an entire morning is not just a domestic annoyance: it is a direct blow to the tourist experience. And here at Turismo News we say it straight: when a resort or an Airbnb cannot guarantee air conditioning, hot water, or an outlet to charge a phone, the destination's reputation takes a hit.
I have seen how a small blackout in a well-managed hotel is solved with a generator and a couple of apologies. But the underlying problem when outages are recurrent and widespread in the area, as seems to be the case in Sosúa, is that tourists talk about it. And let's be honest, in the age of Google reviews and TikTok videos, a bad energy experience goes viral faster than a dip in Sosúa Beach.
The challenge is on the table. From MITUR and the hotel associations of Puerto PlataPuerto PlataA north-coast city and province, birthplace of Dominican tourism, home to the cable car up Mount Isabel de Torres, Victorian architecture and the Amber Cove cruise port., the move is not just to ask Edenorte to reinforce supply, but to anticipate: hotels with backup plants, small hostels investing in inverters and batteries, and the local government with a tourism contingency plan gain points. Because sun and sand may forgive, but a fan blowing in your face definitely scares the traveler away.
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