With 4 million tourists each year, the Dominican Republic is the most visited country in the Caribbean. Seduced by its immense white sand beaches and its “all-inclusive” hotels, visitors are ever more numerous to the point that the government wants to double reception capacities. But at what cost ! Today, the country is betting on mass tourism to the detriment of its less fortunate populations. The hell of the setting is the slums. Cyclones, torrential rains, floods, these dormitory towns are not spared from these climatic scourges. Fortunately, NGOs come to support them in their fight to survive. Fight lost in advance? Perhaps unless the authorities understand very quickly that the situation risks degenerating. Faced with the specter of neighboring Haiti, is the Dominican Republic ready to take up the challenge?
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The channel lists natural disasters such as:
1) Emergency geological situations: earthquake, volcanic eruption, mud, landslide, landslide, avalanche;
2) Emergency hydrological situations: flood, tsunami, limnological disaster, flood, inundation;
3) Fires: forest fire, peat fire;
4) Weather emergencies: tornado, cyclone, blizzard, hail, drought, tornado, hail, hurricane, tsunami, storm, thunderstorm, storm.
Dominican Republic, the Haitian specter
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