Exactly how did Punta Cana get so popular?

With lots of well-liked tourist locations, it would be challenging to pin-point one specific thing that made the region rise in appeal. Not so with Punta Cana. On the Punta Cana shore, which stretches for about 39 miles from Bavaro in the north to Cap Cana in the south, there is one easily recognizable event that happened in 1984 that transformed literally everything and totally transformed this region into the mega-popular vacation paradise it is today.

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Punta Cana is absolutely gorgeous. It provides expansive sleek white sandy beaches with a warm shimmering blue sea lapping along its coastline. It is so welcoming it calls you in - some say it even "seduces" you. When you include in this the thick grove of coconut palm trees persuading in the tropical breeze along the entire shore in this region, you have the famous Caribbean haven printed on post-cards sent to those back home who just weren't lucky enough to embark on the travel.

Nonetheless, prior to 1984 only a handful of people actually found out about this tropical gem. It stayed mostly unexplored by most world vacationers till the building of the Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ). In Spanish, the main language of the Dominican Republic, this international airport is called, "Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta Cana."

You see, no matter exactly how incredible an area is, if you have no hassle-free and fairly valued means to reach the area, it won't be seen by many individuals. Prior to the Punta Cana International Airport was constructed, the tiny air strip that had been around 1971 could not deal with the large size jet airplanes.

Moreover, in order to get there from an oveseas nation, you needed to fly into Santa Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, and afterwards endure a 4 hour rugged bus or taxi trip to Punta Cana. The unpaved road was slim and filled with enormous gaps. The road would also wash out in hefty rains and motorized vehicles were sometimes delayed by horse traffic, making the speed unpleasant for fatigued vacationers wanting to get to their resort.

The air traffic of the PUJ has grown by leaps and bounds and is on course this year (2014) to serve more than 4.5 million people! It now obtains far more traffic than the next busiest airport in the capital of Santo Dominigo. There is no other independently financed airport in the world that also resembles this degree of business success.

Visitors visit Punta Cana from around the world now. International airline companies that offer the Punta Cana Airport are Air Canada, AirTran, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental, Delta, JetBlue, KLM, Spirit, United, US Airways, and Westjet. Canadian charter airline companies to the Punta Cana consist of Air Transat, Sunwig, Skyservice, and Canjet. They run throughout the cool bleak Canadian winter seasons.

So, an area that started with very simple beginnings about 4 decades earlier, now commonly offers beds for more than 70,000 people at one time. Punta Cana has most definitely developed itself as one of the leading areas vacationers think of going.

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And ... there's no end in sight for the growth of this detination. The around 39 mile Punta Cana shore has basically been a "gold rush" for the significant resort firms, especially the Spanish owned ones, since the area was opened up by the international airport terminal. Classy high hotels, flawlessly sited to make use of the view, have actually emerged almost over night. The infrastructure has likewise vastly enhanced as money for large projects has gathered.