"The entire region appears to be poised for significant growth in the hotel sector, based on the number of announced projects under contract," STR said.
"At the Harbor restaurant on Rincon's beach, people sat around the open-air bar as people lounged and swam on the beach below," news editor Johanna Jainchill writes.
The hotel, which was spared major damage from Hurricane Maria, invites its guests to help rebuild damaged structures at Estancia Verde Luz, which suffered from flooding that wiped out entire crops of fruits, vegetables and greens.
Although final visitor numbers won't be tallied for another month or so, the country appears to be the clear winner once again in the Caribbean and is poised to top its 6.1 million-visitor-mark achieved in 2016.
While there is still a long road to full recovery, airlift is steadily improving, close to 600 guestrooms are available and many restaurants and bars have reopened.
Sarkis Izmirlian's BML Properties accused China Construction America of 15 counts of fraud, alleging it caused BML to lose its equity investment and control of the beachfront resort.
In our annual Preview report, our reporters, editors and contributors take on the always perilous task of predicting what the year ahead holds for the industry.
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