SANTO DOMINGO - The Colonial City of Santo Domingo , declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, has been recognized as an Adhering Smart Destination 2025-2027, becoming the first Dominican destination to join the Smart Destinations Network (DTI ), promoted by the Spanish State Secretariat for Tourism through the public entity SEGITTUR.
The main tourist and historical destination of the capital received from this entity the certificate that accredits it as a Smart Destination Adhered for a period of two years (2025-2027 ) and the logo to be displayed throughout the area, along with the DTI Diagnostic Report , the basis on which it will begin to execute the determined roadmap, for its conversion into a Smart Tourist Destination based on the DTI methodology.
Thanks to this diagnosis, the Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) and the municipal authorities have an action plan to raise the competitiveness and sustainability of the destination, assuming a transformative model of smart management.
For this two-year period, the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is credited with having begun implementing the DTI model , which constitutes taking a step forward to become part of the group of destinations at the forefront of tourism development and with a future strategy based on governance, sustainability, accessibility, innovation and technology as backbones.
This program is structured around a diagnostic methodology based on 97 requirements and 261 indicators based on compliance with five axes in the aspects of sustainability, innovation, technology, accessibility and governance.
Of the requirements of the DTI methodology of Segittur, the Colonial City of Santo Domingo has exceeded 28.9%; the Sustainability axis is the one that the best result , with the achievement of 41.7% of the requirements, followed by Governance, strategic, organizational and management pillar of the DTI model, with 29.8% of the requirements exceeded.
Next are the Innovation , with 23%, and the Technology , with 19.9%. Finally, the Accessibility shows the greatest room for improvement, with an average compliance level of 14.1%.
This project has been carried out thanks to the collaboration with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GIZ) which finances it with its Regional Fund for Triangular Cooperation with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean.
That same one was the product of an international cooperation agreement managed by the Ministry of Tourism.
Smart Tourist Destination
It is defined as an innovative tourist destination, consolidated on a state-of-the-art technological infrastructure, which guarantees the sustainable development of the tourist territory, accessible to all, facilitating the interaction and integration of the visitor with the environment and increasing the quality of their experience in the destination and the improvement of the quality of life of the resident.
