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# EDWARD DE VALLE II
Defining the Standard in Real Estate, Hospitality & Investment
Edward De Valle II is an entrepreneur, investor and hotel developer working across real estate, media and hospitality in the Caribbean and the Americas: Managing Partner of Hotel Collection International LLC, the company behind NOMAD Residences and MOD Collection by Sonesta in the Dominican Republic, and former owner of Forbes Magazine Latin America.

## A record measured in billions
- US$20 billion+ in real estate and hospitality projects structured and commercialized worldwide
- US$250 million+ in hotel development across the Dominican Republic
- 1,000+ rooms by 2030, across ten hotels in ten destinations (Vision 2030); approximately 600 additional rooms scheduled for delivery by the end of 2029
- 25+ years of leadership in hospitality and investment
- Former owner, Forbes Magazine Latin America
- Ranked #133 on the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing private companies (2014)
> "Build boldly. Lead responsibly."
Edward De Valle II · Managing Partner, Hotel Collection International LLC
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[image: Grupo De Valle]
[image: The Agency]
[image: Simply Dominican]
[image: SEB Café Paris]

## Selected projects

### NOMAD · MOD by Sonesta
Bayahibe, La Romana

### NOMAD Residences
Bayahibe, fifty-five residences

### The DEKO Punta Cana
Punta Cana, condo-hotel

### DEKO Bastion
Punta Cana, bleisure

## In their words
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> "You and your team are terrific; your team meets the objectives that drive our business, year over year."
Ivanka Trump The Trump Organization
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> "We greatly appreciate the level of expertise in all media channels; he continuously brings fresh ideas to the table."
Ingo Reckhorn Dellis Cay · Mandarin Oriental
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> "A true real estate marketing professional. His tenacity and drive are unmatched."
John Albino W South Beach
[image: Carlos Seliman]
> "He is always two steps in front of you; if you drag your feet, he will even carry you. A real professional who always reaches the mark."
Carlos Seliman Gems Hospitality
[image: Selma Langer]
> "Extremely well-read, knowledgeable; he always brings incredible added-value to the table."
Selma Langer The Trump Organization
[image: Nicole Cardoso Lawrence]
> "Passionate about his work, his clients and his performance, proactive in discovering ways to surpass his client's needs and expectations."
Nicole Cardoso Lawrence International Sales Group
[image: Forbes]
[image: Newsweek]
[image: GQ]
[image: Robb Report]
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## From the newsroom

### Lamborghini Announces Exclusive Three-Project Agreement for Tonino Lamborghini Towers in the Dominican Republic at FITUR Madrid
January 22, 2026

### Edward De Valle II: la visión global de un compromiso solidario que trasciende fronteras
January 29, 2026

### The Deko Launches at FITUR Madrid 2026 as a New Lifestyle Bleisure Condo-Hotel in Punta Cana
January 21, 2026

### NOMAD Hotels & Resorts DR Launches at FITUR 2026, Redefining the 3-Star Hotel Segment in the Dominican Republic

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# Story — https://edwarddevalle.com/story

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# Edward De Valle II
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Twenty-five years, one instinct.
Edward De Valle II is an entrepreneur, investor, and developer working across real estate, media, and hospitality in the Caribbean and the Americas.
He comes from a distinguished Cuban and Spanish family: his great-grandfather owned El Avance, once Cuba’s most influential newspaper, and his great-great-grandfather, Dr. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, served as President of Cuba from 1921 to 1925.
Twenty-five years later he has structured and commercialized more than USD $20 billion in residential, commercial, and hotel projects, and become one of the most influential figures in Caribbean hospitality development.
The instinct has stayed the same throughout. See the value in a place before the market does, then build the structure that lets capital reach it.
[image: Edward De Valle II, signature]
Edward De Valle II Managing Partner Hotel Collection International LLC
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[image: Newsweek]
[image: GQ]
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FORMER OWNER OF FORBES MAGAZINE LATIN AMERICA

## Forbes taught him what value is
Former owner of Forbes Magazine Latin America.
He directed editorial and commercial operations across the region, working alongside Fortune 500 executives, heads of state, and institutional investors.
Three things generate value. Credibility. Long-term relationships. Vision that turns into measurable results.

## He started building
He moved from telling the stories to structuring the deals, connecting international developers with the fastest-growing markets in the Caribbean and the Americas.
In 2014 his company was ranked #133 on the Inc. 500, the list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
MBA · PhD, Sociology · Harvard Business School · Princeton Executive Education
[image: El Morro, Montecristi]
[image: Super 8, Manzanillo]
[image: Gran Hotel Europa, Santo Domingo]
[image: Days Inn, Juan Dolio]
[image: NOMAD · MOD by Sonesta, Bayahibe: the courtyard pool between the two buildings]
[image: NOMAD Residences, Bayahibe]
[image: The DEKO, Punta Cana]
[image: DEKO Bastion, Punta Cana]
Tell the story well, and build something worth telling it about.

## One platform, every phase
- 01 Land acquisition
- 02 Feasibility and viability
- 03 Design and master planning
- 04 Financial structuring
- 05 Construction management
- 06 Global brand negotiation
- 07 Pre-opening and operations
[image: Hotel Collection International]

### Hotel Collection International LLC
Managing Partner
A hospitality development and investment company: distinctive hotels, resorts and branded residences across the Dominican Republic, carried in house from the land to the day the hotel opens.
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### Grupo GDV SRL
Director, Board of Directors
The group's fully integrated real estate and hotel development platform, with a portfolio that runs from private equity to philanthropy in the Dominican Republic.
[image: The Agency]

### The Agency Dominican Republic
The Beverly Hills luxury brokerage founded by Mauricio Umansky. The alliance connects Dominican assets to capital networks across North America and Europe.
[image: Edward De Valle II with The Agency partners at a company event]

## A national plan for Dominican hospitality
To position the Dominican Republic as a leader in sustainable tourism and mid-scale hospitality.
[image: Map of the Dominican Republic marking the destinations in Manzanillo, Montecristi, Santo Domingo, Juan Dolio, La Romana, Bayahibe and Punta Cana]
7 destinations

### Partnership
Public and private partnerships that attract and protect international capital.

### Standards
Green building standards and renewable energy across every project.

### Identity
Global hotel brands built on local identity.
Every location within thirty minutes of a regional economic center.

### Integrity
Transparent, principled leadership in every project and partnership.

### Innovation
A constant search for new solutions in design, finance, and operations.

### Sustainability
Long-term environmental, social, and economic impact.

### Compassion
A human-centered approach in business and in philanthropy.

## CONNECT
Edward De Valle II · Managing Partner, Hotel Collection International LLC
Miami, Florida · Dominican Republic

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# Portfolio — https://edwarddevalle.com/portfolio

Five companies, eight properties, one ecosystem.
[image: Edward De Valle II, seated in a leather armchair in a black double-breasted dinner jacket]

## The companies
Edward De Valle II · Managing Partner, Hotel Collection International LLC
[image: Hotel Collection International]

### Hotel Collection International
Managing Partner. The condo-hotel house: vertically integrated, institutional-grade branded residences and hospitality-led investment projects.
[image: Grupo De Valle]

### Grupo De Valle
Director, Board of Directors. The group's platform: land acquisition, financial structuring, construction, and hotel operations across the Dominican Republic.
[image: The Agency Dominican Republic]

### The Agency Dominican Republic
Managing Partner. The brokerage: the global luxury network founded in Beverly Hills, 130+ offices across 13 countries.
[image: Simply Dominican]

### Simply Dominican
The villas. Luxury villa rental and concierge, run with the consistency of a boutique hotel.
[image: SEB Café Paris]

### SEB Café Paris
The indulgence. An Italian café on Rue Auber in the 9th arrondissement, steps from the Opéra.

## One island, corner to corner.
The northwest coast to the eastern tip: six places, eight properties.

## The projects
Eight destinations across the Dominican Republic: two in pre-sale, two coming soon, four open.

### NOMAD · MOD by Sonesta
Bayahibe, La Romana: approximately 150 condo-hotel rooms In pre-sale

### NOMAD Residences
Bayahibe: fifty-five curated NOMAD residences In pre-sale

### The DEKO Punta Cana
Punta Cana, 120 condo-hotel units Coming soon

### DEKO Bastion
Punta Cana: 120 units, rooms, suites and branded residences Coming soon

### Gran Hotel Europa
Santo Domingo, Zona Colonial Open

### Super 8 Manzanillo
Manzanillo Open

### El Morro
Montecristi Open

### Days Inn Juan Dolio
Juan Dolio, on the south coast Open
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## The projects, as a list
Bayahibe, La Romana: approximately 150 condo-hotel rooms · In pre-sale
Bayahibe: fifty-five curated NOMAD residences · In pre-sale
Punta Cana, 120 condo-hotel units · Coming soon
Punta Cana: 120 units, rooms, suites and branded residences · Coming soon
Santo Domingo, Zona Colonial · Open
Manzanillo · Open
Montecristi · Open
Juan Dolio, on the south coast · Open

## Vision 2030
Ten hotels, more than a thousand rooms, and a presence in ten destinations by 2030: public–private partnerships, green building standards, and international flags with local soul.
Approximately 600 additional rooms are scheduled for delivery by the end of 2029.

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# Philanthropy — https://edwarddevalle.com/philanthropy

Growth and compassion, hand in hand.

## Fundación De Valle
Created to ensure the group's growth benefits the Dominican people directly, the foundation works in education, health, sustainability, and inclusion: delivering continuous care alongside the clinics, schools, and local organizations that know their communities best.
Its particular devotion belongs to families facing special needs and financial hardship, and to children living with HIV/AIDS.
[image: Edward De Valle guiding a child's paintbrush at a Fundación De Valle workshop]

## The 2026 Initiative
A better, greener, and more equitable Dominican Republic by 2026.
The foundation's cornerstone commitment: a national, multi-year effort with Hotel Collection International to turn business success into measurable social impact, project by project.
> “Para mí, el éxito implica una responsabilidad mayor: la de replicar un legado de excelencia.”
Edward De Valle II · January 2026
The foundation works beside the clinics, schools, and local organizations that know their communities best, and it keeps room at the table.
Edward@hcidr.com

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# Media — https://edwarddevalle.com/media

Television, and the interviews that made the case.
[image: Title card for Millionaire Holiday Home Swap over an aerial view of a hillside estate]

## Millionaire Holiday Home Swap
A six-episode series · 2024
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[image: Netflix]
Inside ThirdHome, the invitation-only club where multimillionaire owners trade their estates rather than rent them out: private islands, historic European castles, African safari lodges, beachfront villas in Ibiza and Thailand. Members earn keys by hosting other members, then spend those keys to stay.
[image: Edward De Valle II interviewed outdoors in Miami for EXTRA, a 3A Worldwide caption on screen]

## Meet the media mogul helping to transform Downtown Miami
EXTRA · Los Angeles, 2014
A feature introducing Edward as the owner of 3A Worldwide, and his part in the expansion of Downtown Miami through media, branding and real estate.
[image: Edward De Valle II being interviewed on the street on Wall Street, New York]

## What comes next for New York real estate
Latin Post · Wall Street, New York
Edward on what lies ahead for the city’s real estate market: the opportunities opening up, the conditions changing underneath them, and where investment and development go from here.
[image: Edward De Valle II interviewed on camera at the Super 8 Manzanillo opening]

## «Esto es mucho más que un hotel para viajeros de turismo»
ZOL FM · in Spanish
Recorded at the inauguration of Super 8 Manzanillo, on what a hotel is for in a province that had been waiting for one.
[image: Edward De Valle II filmed beside a hotel pool in the Dominican Republic]

## Edward De Valle II
Cool Media Group
A profile filmed on location in the Dominican Republic.

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# Newsroom — https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom

Ten years of the record, in the order it happened.
[image: Aerial render of NOMAD in Bayahibe: two buildings facing each other across the pool, the padel courts beyond]

## NOMAD Hotels & Resorts DR launches at FITUR 2026
A redefinition of the three-star segment, unveiled in Madrid for the Dominican market.
January 21, 2026

## 2026

### La visión global de un compromiso solidario que trasciende fronteras
A profile of the foundation work behind the hotels, and why it travels with every project.

### Tonino Lamborghini Towers, Grupo De Valle congratulates DUNA Development
A three-project agreement announced at FITUR Madrid, led by DUNA Development and operated by Archipelago.

### The DEKO launches at FITUR Madrid as a bleisure condo-hotel in Punta Cana
A lifestyle brand built for the traveller who no longer separates the trip from the work.

### NOMAD Hotels & Resorts DR launches at FITUR 2026

## 2025

### The fourth hotel in under 36 months, the country's first Days Inn
Four properties delivered inside three years, and the brand's Dominican debut.

### Edward De Valle II at SIMA Madrid 2025
The hybrid hotel-condo model, argued in front of the Spanish investment market.

### Banreservas backs Days Inn Juan Dolio with $6 million in financing
The national bank puts tourism financing behind a mid-scale hotel on the south coast.

## 2024

### Four Super 8 hotels with Proconstur: Río San Juan, Cabrera, Cotuí, La Vega
Four secondary cities, chosen before the market agreed they were markets.

### The regional Beyond conference comes to the Dominican Republic
The Caribbean development community convenes in Santo Domingo.

### Grupo De Valle's big bet: 4,500 rooms by 2030
The pipeline stated in public, with a date attached to it.

### A new La Quinta signed in Miches with Grupo 7Palms
The east coast's next tourism corridor gets a mid-scale anchor.

### ANATO Bogotá, the Colombian tourism showcase
Taking the Dominican mid-scale story to the Colombian trade.

### The first Registry Collection arrives in Jarabacoa
A mountain address for a brand that had never come to the country.

### Days Inn Juan Dolio and Super 8 Miches expand the network
Two more signings on two coasts, announced together.

### Blue Del Mare joins the luxury resort portfolio at Cap Cana
A resort signing in the country's most established luxury enclave.

## 2023

### Construction begins on La Quinta San Francisco de Macorís
With Premium Residences, ground breaks in the Cibao.

### A fourth La Quinta signed at Pedernales, Cabo Rojo
The far southwest, where the state tourism push was only beginning.

## 2022

### President Abinader inaugurates Super 8 Manzanillo
The first hotel opens in a port town that had never had one.

### «Esto es mucho más que un hotel para viajeros de turismo»
Edward on what a hotel is for, in a province that had been waiting for one.

### YOO brings its residential and hotel brand to the Dominican Republic
The design-led brand lands in Santo Domingo.

### Banreservas meets investors in France
A national bank delegation courts European capital for Dominican tourism.

### City Hub Trademark Collection to open in the Dominican Republic
An urban-hub format for Santo Domingo, with Inmobiliaris.

## 2021

### President Abinader breaks ground at Manzanillo and El Morro
The presidential visit that put two northwest hotels into construction on the same day.

## 2020

### LINKS Demand Marketing opens a bilingual on-demand practice
A pandemic-year pivot: marketing bought by the hour, in two languages.

### Finding our voice, and succeeding in the Dominican Republic
Written by Edward, in the month the borders closed.

### An early new year for Dominican travel, tourism and investment
The recovery case, made while the industry was still shut.

### Profusion Group en FITUR
Madrid, six weeks before the world stopped.

## 2019

### QUINT Collection tops off in Hollywood, Florida
The Florida chapter reaches its highest floor.

### La Quinta commits to the Dominican Republic with eight new hotels
The brand's Caribbean entry, eight properties at once.

### One year after the acquisition, La Quinta shows its momentum
The trade press takes stock of the first twelve months.

### Profusion Group to invest US$100 million in eight hotels
The number that started the Dominican hotel programme.

### Miriam Calzada presents «May 15»
An exhibition at ART., and the crowd it drew.

## 2018

### LINKS joins forces with Pangaea for global expansion
The agency goes international through a network alliance.

### Campamento Esperanza & Alegría
The camp that gives the foundation its calendar.

### VIVA Air and KAYAK pick LINKS WorldGroup as agency of record
Two travel accounts won in the same week.

### ART. Gallery presenta «Revelaciones»
The Santo Domingo gallery's own show.

### ACV and the Dominican tourism board kick off in Toronto
Canadian trade, courted in its own market.

### LINKS builds on its tourism-board record to expand its travel portfolio
Government tourism work becomes the agency's calling card.

### Forbes Latin America launches at W South Beach
The magazine's regional edition, launched in Miami Beach.

### «Fall in Love with Art», a benefit for children with HIV/AIDS
The gallery turned over to a cause for a night.

### Meet the media mogul helping to transform Downtown Miami
The Miami years, told by the people who watched the skyline change.

## 2017

### yoo Santo Domingo
The first design-brand residential tower proposed for the capital.

### Risk takers and diligent professionals both reap rewards in real estate
Written by Edward, on which temperament the business actually pays.

### Top trends in the content-marketing landscape
The media operator's read on where attention was going.

## 2016

### Inició su empresa de comunicaciones con apenas 108 dólares
The origin figure, on the record: one hundred and eight dollars.

## 2015

### Fractional ownership: facts and opportunities, at Island Gardens Miami
A panel on the ownership model that would later shape the condo-hotel.

## On stage

### SIMA Madrid

### FITUR Madrid

### ANATO Bogotá

## Press kit

## Connect
Your mail app is opening with the message ready to send. If nothing happened, write to Edward@hcidr.com.
Miami, Florida · Dominican Republic

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Effective 7 September 2026

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# Newsroom stories (46)

## La visión global de un compromiso solidario que trasciende fronteras
2026-01-29 · Philanthropy · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/la-vision-global-de-un-compromiso-solidario-que-trasciende

A profile of the foundation work behind the hotels, and why it travels with every project.
January 29, 2026 · Philanthropy
An interview, published in Spanish, with the businessman and philanthropist who found a purpose in the Dominican Republic: honouring Cuban-Spanish roots while helping to reshape the country's property landscape.
Asked what he is building toward, he frames achievement as an inherited obligation rather than an accumulation: a legacy to be replicated, not spent.
> Para mí el éxito implica una responsabilidad mayor: la de replicar un legado de excelencia. Edward De Valle II
Fundación De Valle →

## Tonino Lamborghini Towers, Grupo De Valle congratulates DUNA Development
2026-01-22 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/tonino-lamborghini-towers-grupo-de-valle-congratulates-duna-development

A three-project agreement announced at FITUR Madrid, led by DUNA Development and operated by Archipelago.
January 22, 2026 · Press
At FITUR Madrid, Lamborghini announced an exclusive three-project development agreement bringing Tonino Lamborghini Towers to the Dominican Republic, the lifestyle brand's entry into the Caribbean ultra-luxury market.
The agreement is with DUNA Development, led by co-chief executives José González and Josué Virgen, and every tower will be operated by Archipelago. Grupo De Valle's part in the day was to congratulate the developers; the projects are theirs.
Reported by Announced at FITUR Madrid.
The story →

## The DEKO launches at FITUR Madrid as a bleisure condo-hotel in Punta Cana
2026-01-21 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/the-deko-launches-at-fitur-madrid-as-a-bleisure

A lifestyle brand built for the traveller who no longer separates the trip from the work.
January 21, 2026 · Development
The DEKO launched at FITUR Madrid 2026: a bleisure condo-hotel in Punta Cana, developed by Haute Concepts in alliance with Grupo De Valle.
The structure is the point. Individual ownership sits on top of professional hotel operation through a centralised rental pool, so an owner takes hospitality income without running anything day to day.
> The Deko is designed to function as both a lifestyle destination and a disciplined hospitality asset. From the launch announcement
The projects →

## NOMAD Hotels & Resorts DR launches at FITUR 2026
2026-01-21 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/nomad-hotels-and-resorts-dr-launches-at-fitur-2026

A redefinition of the three-star segment, unveiled in Madrid for the Dominican market.
January 21, 2026 · Development
NOMAD Hotels & Resorts DR launched at FITUR 2026 as a design-forward alternative inside the three-star and mid-scale category, a segment that had not been argued with in years.
The claim is a pricing one: stylish rooms at the same nightly rate as the legacy mid-scale brands. The design is not a surcharge.
> NOMAD was created to challenge the idea that affordability must come at the expense of design and experience. From the launch announcement
The projects →

## The fourth hotel in under 36 months, the country's first Days Inn
2025-11-23 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/the-fourth-hotel-in-under-36-months-the-countrys

Four properties delivered inside three years, and the brand's Dominican debut.
November 23, 2025 · Development
Grupo De Valle marked its fourth hotel delivered in under thirty-six months: the country's first Days Inn, at Juan Dolio, scheduled to open on 8 December.
The franchise agreement was signed by Edward with the franchisor's chief executive, Geoffrey A. Ballotti. Four properties inside three years is the number the group keeps returning to, because in Dominican hotel development it is an unusual one.
The projects →

## Edward De Valle II at SIMA Madrid 2025
2025-05-26 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/edward-de-valle-ii-at-sima-madrid-2025

The hybrid hotel-condo model, argued in front of the Spanish investment market.
May 26, 2025 · Press
Edward returned to SIMA Madrid as a keynote speaker, representing the Dominican Republic at Europe's most important real-estate fair.
His subject was the hybrid development: projects that merge hotel and condominium ownership, giving an investor both personal use and a return. It is the model he has been building at scale with international flags.
> Staying competitive isn't about designing stark, modern buildings just to catch attention, it's about creating products that resonate globally. Edward De Valle II
The story →

## Banreservas backs Days Inn Juan Dolio with $6 million in financing
2025-01-21 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/banreservas-backs-days-inn-juan-dolio-with-6-million

The national bank puts tourism financing behind a mid-scale hotel on the south coast.
January 21, 2025 · Development
At FITUR 2025, Banreservas and Grupo De Valle formalised the financing for the Days Inn at Juan Dolio, putting the national bank behind a mid-scale hotel on the south coast.
Six million dollars approved against a total investment of $12.6 million. The structure had already reached sixty-five per cent completion when the agreement was signed.
The projects →

## Four Super 8 hotels with Proconstur: Río San Juan, Cabrera, Cotuí, La Vega
2024-11-17 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/four-super-8-hotels-with-proconstur-rio-san-juan

Four secondary cities, chosen before the market agreed they were markets.
November 17, 2024 · Development
With Proconstur, four Super 8 hotels for Río San Juan, Cabrera, Cotuí and La Vega, the first time an international hotel brand has been placed in any of those four towns.
Twenty-five million dollars, more than three hundred and fifty rooms, and over two hundred local jobs. The rooms are specified for families, groups and couples alike, with two-bedroom suites, soundproofing and charging stations for electric vehicles.
The projects →

## The regional Beyond conference comes to the Dominican Republic
2024-11-13 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/the-regional-beyond-conference-comes-to-the-dominican-republic

The Caribbean development community convenes in Santo Domingo.
November 13, 2024 · Press
The regional Beyond conference was held in the Dominican Republic, bringing more than two hundred hospitality leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean to Santo Domingo to preview what the sector planned for the following year.
Hosting it in the country was itself the signal: the Dominican Republic as the room where the region's hotel business meets, rather than a destination it discusses.
The story →

## Grupo De Valle's big bet: 4,500 rooms by 2030
2024-06-06 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/grupo-de-valles-big-bet-4-500-rooms-by

The pipeline stated in public, with a date attached to it.
June 6, 2024 · Development
Edward set out Vision 2030 in public: more than twenty hotels and 4,500 rooms across the country by the end of the decade.
The ambition has a geography attached, a hotel within thirty minutes of every Dominican city. Days Inn Juan Dolio, Super 8 in Cotuí, Cabrera and Nagua, and La Quinta San Francisco de Macorís were offered as the working proof.
Reported by arecoa.com.
The projects →

## A new La Quinta signed in Miches with Grupo 7Palms
2024-03-06 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/a-new-la-quinta-signed-in-miches-with-grupo

The east coast's next tourism corridor gets a mid-scale anchor.
March 6, 2024 · Development
A third Dominican La Quinta was signed for Miches with Grupo 7Palms, alongside the country's ambassador Francisco A. Caraballo, the first mid-scale American brand to enter that destination.
Seventy-nine rooms, with open floors for co-working, breakfast and small events, a wellness centre and a pool. The network is planned to reach six Dominican hotels by 2030.
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## ANATO Bogotá, the Colombian tourism showcase
2024-02-28 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/anato-bogota-the-colombian-tourism-showcase

Taking the Dominican mid-scale story to the Colombian trade.
February 28, 2024 · Press
At the ANATO showcase in Bogotá, the group announced La Quinta Puerto Plata for 2024, presented alongside Puerto Plata's own tourism leadership.
Colombia is a feeder market the Dominican mid-scale segment had not seriously courted.
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## The first Registry Collection arrives in Jarabacoa
2024-01-24 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/the-first-registry-collection-arrives-in-jarabacoa

A mountain address for a brand that had never come to the country.
January 24, 2024 · Development
At FITUR, Alterra Village and Grupo De Valle announced the first Registry Collection hotel and residences: for Jarabacoa, in the mountains.
The sales programme opens with 120 rooms; residences of two and three bedrooms start in the mid-three-hundreds of thousands of dollars. Operadora Hotelera Dominicana will run it, with a wellness and corporate-retreat brief attached.
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## Days Inn Juan Dolio and Super 8 Miches expand the network
2024-01-24 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/days-inn-juan-dolio-and-super-8-miches-expand

Two more signings on two coasts, announced together.
January 24, 2024 · Development
Also at FITUR 2024: Days Inn Juan Dolio Beach and Super 8 Miches, announced together as the next step of the expansion plan.
Both are aimed at budget-conscious Dominican, American and Canadian travellers at an estimated eighty dollars a night: the mid-scale end of a plan that runs to 4,500 rooms and thirty-two properties.
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## Blue Del Mare joins the luxury resort portfolio at Cap Cana
2024-01-24 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/blue-del-mare-joins-the-luxury-resort-portfolio-at

A resort signing in the country's most established luxury enclave.
January 24, 2024 · Development
Blue Del Mare S.R.L. and Grupo De Valle announced a resort at Cap Cana: 292 two-bedroom residences with the amenities of a five-star hotel.
It was announced at FITUR in the year the country celebrated passing ten million visitors, and in the enclave where Dominican luxury is already established rather than argued for.
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## Construction begins on La Quinta San Francisco de Macorís
2023-12-19 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/construction-begins-on-la-quinta-san-francisco-de-macoris

With Premium Residences, ground breaks in the Cibao.
December 19, 2023 · Development
Premium Residences and Grupo De Valle broke ground on a 126-room La Quinta in San Francisco de Macorís, an investment of more than twelve million dollars.
The Cibao is not a resort province. A modern hotel of that size there is a bet on business travel and on a city that generates its own demand.
> The construction of La Quinta San Francisco de Macorís is a significant achievement for our city, its people and Premium Residences. From the groundbreaking
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## A fourth La Quinta signed at Pedernales, Cabo Rojo
2023-04-04 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/a-fourth-la-quinta-signed-at-pedernales-cabo-rojo

The far southwest, where the state tourism push was only beginning.
April 4, 2023 · Development
The ocean-front La Quinta at Pedernales–Cabo Rojo was signed and approved, with construction from the autumn of 2023 and an opening set for the summer of 2025.
Cabo Rojo is planned for twelve thousand resort rooms over ten years. The signing came through Fairmont S.R.L., represented by Guillermo Estrella of Estrella & Tupete.
> It adds value to the government's development plans, bringing the necessary hotel product that is usually forgotten in resort areas. Guillermo Estrella
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## President Abinader inaugurates Super 8 Manzanillo
2022-12-03 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/president-abinader-inaugurates-super-8-manzanillo

The first hotel opens in a port town that had never had one.
December 3, 2022 · 2 clippings · Development
President Luis Abinader attended the opening of Super 8 Manzanillo, in the municipality of Pepillo Salcedo, Montecristi.
Fifty-four rooms over four levels, with parking, a pool, a restaurant and a gym, and twenty-four direct jobs, in a port town that had never had a hotel of any kind.
Covered by 2 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## «Esto es mucho más que un hotel para viajeros de turismo»
2022-12-03 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/esto-es-mucho-mas-que-un-hotel-para-viajeros

Edward on what a hotel is for, in a province that had been waiting for one.
December 3, 2022 · Press
Speaking at the Manzanillo opening, Edward pushed back on the obvious reading of it. The hotel was not built for tourists passing through; it was built for the province that had been waiting for one.
> Esto es mucho más que un hotel para viajeros de turismo. Edward De Valle II
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## YOO brings its residential and hotel brand to the Dominican Republic
2022-10-19 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/yoo-brings-its-residential-and-hotel-brand-to-the

The design-led brand lands in Santo Domingo.
October 19, 2022 · Development
YOO arrived in the Dominican Republic with YOO Residencias & Hotel Santo Domingo: 132 hotel residences in the centre of the capital, positioned as a boost to both tourism and the wider economy.
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## Banreservas meets investors in France
2022-09-28 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/banreservas-meets-investors-in-france

A national bank delegation courts European capital for Dominican tourism.
September 28, 2022 · Press
A Banreservas delegation led by its administrator Samuel Pereyra met investors in France interested in Bergantín, Jarabacoa, Puerto Plata, Palenque beach and the eastern zone.
De Valle was among the hotel groups represented in the meetings, alongside Recaindu, Paramount Hotels & Resorts, Piñeiro, Inverotel, Sky Cana, MGM Muthu and Posadas.
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## City Hub Trademark Collection to open in the Dominican Republic
2022-01-25 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/city-hub-trademark-collection-to-open-in-the-dominican

An urban-hub format for Santo Domingo, with Inmobiliaris.
January 25, 2022 · Development
City Hub Trademark Collection was announced for the Dominican Republic in partnership with Inmobiliaris and Grupo De Valle.
A tower of eighty-two condo-hotel units over eight floors, with two levels of social space, an entire floor given to co-working, restaurants, a pool, event rooms and 105 parking spaces, an urban format rather than a resort one.
Reported by EIN Presswire.
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## President Abinader breaks ground at Manzanillo and El Morro
2021-12-14 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/president-abinader-breaks-ground-at-manzanillo-and-el-morro

The presidential visit that put two northwest hotels into construction on the same day.
December 14, 2021 · 17 clippings · Development
President Luis Abinader announced the construction of the Super 8 hotels at Manzanillo and El Morro, and the northwest's first hotel programme began on the same day.
The president framed it as employment and regional economy; for the province it was the arrival of an industry. Seventeen newspapers covered the visit, the most-reported day in this archive.
Covered by 17 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## LINKS Demand Marketing opens a bilingual on-demand practice
2020-08-13 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/links-demand-marketing-opens-a-bilingual-on-demand-practice

A pandemic-year pivot: marketing bought by the hour, in two languages.
August 13, 2020 · Press
LINKS Demand Marketing launched in Miami: marketing and public relations bought on demand, by project, without the long-term retainer.
It was built for a volatile year. The pitch was versatility at a moment when very few clients could commit to twelve months of anything.
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## Finding our voice, and succeeding in the Dominican Republic
2020-04-26 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/finding-our-voice-and-succeeding-in-the-dominican-republic

Written by Edward, in the month the borders closed.
April 26, 2020 · Press
Written by Edward six weeks into the pandemic: an argument that the Dominican government had performed well with limited resources, and a defence of making decisions before the data is complete.
The piece is as close as the archive gets to a statement of method.
> Allow data to inform me, but not influence me. Edward De Valle II
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## An early new year for Dominican travel, tourism and investment
2020-04-05 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/an-early-new-year-for-dominican-travel-tourism-and

The recovery case, made while the industry was still shut.
April 5, 2020 · Press
A case for rebuilding travel and tourism: the third-largest contributor to Dominican GDP: written in the first week of the shutdown, from the vantage of someone running a travel marketing firm.
Its opening move is to refuse the recap: everyone knew what was happening, so he wrote about what to do next instead.
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## Profusion Group en FITUR
2020-01-26 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/profusion-group-en-fitur

Madrid, six weeks before the world stopped.
January 26, 2020 · Press
Profusion Group on the floor of the fortieth FITUR in Madrid, one of fifty-six Dominican companies presenting the country's tourism at the fair.
Six weeks later the industry it was selling to would close.
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## QUINT Collection tops off in Hollywood, Florida
2019-09-23 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/quint-collection-tops-off-in-hollywood-florida

The Florida chapter reaches its highest floor.
September 23, 2019 · Development
QUINT Collection Hollywood topped off: five storeys of waterfront residences with a private marina, the first of their kind in Hollywood, Florida.
The Florida chapter, reaching its highest floor while the Dominican chapter had not yet started.
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## La Quinta commits to the Dominican Republic with eight new hotels
2019-07-18 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/la-quinta-commits-to-the-dominican-republic-with-eight

The brand's Caribbean entry, eight properties at once.
July 18, 2019 · Development
La Quinta reached the Caribbean for the first time, through the Dominican developer Profusion Group: eight new hotels committed at once.
Profusion was then a private-equity firm working in development, investment and asset management across the Caribbean and northern Latin America, limited-service through luxury.
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## One year after the acquisition, La Quinta shows its momentum
2019-06-17 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/one-year-after-the-acquisition-la-quinta-shows-its

The trade press takes stock of the first twelve months.
June 17, 2019 · 5 clippings · Press
One year after the acquisition, the trade press took stock of the brand's momentum: nine new hotels opened in the United States that quarter on the Del Sol prototype, and a deal to introduce the flag to the Caribbean with eight Dominican hotels.
The Dominican line in that release is the one that mattered here, it was the first time this archive appeared in the American hotel trade.
Covered by 5 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## Profusion Group to invest US$100 million in eight hotels
2019-06-11 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/profusion-group-to-invest-us-100-million-in-eight

The number that started the Dominican hotel programme.
June 11, 2019 · Development
Profusion Group announced one hundred million dollars over five years: eight hotels of 120 rooms each, 960 rooms in total.
Two stages, with the first four in Punta Cana, La Romana and near Las Américas airport, expected between 2020 and 2022. This is the number that started the Dominican hotel programme.
> The country is stable and growing economically, and this tells us that the Dominican public and the middle class are also growing. Edward De Valle II
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## Miriam Calzada presents «May 15»
2019-05-29 · Art · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/miriam-calzada-presents-may-15

An exhibition at ART., and the crowd it drew.
May 29, 2019 · 6 clippings · Art
The «15 de Mayo» cocktail for the Dominican artist Miriam Calzada at ART., hosted by Edward with the artist and sponsored by QUINT Collection Hollywood and JQ Group.
Her work, a photographer's argument with the screen, had not been shown in this form in the country before.
> Sumérgete en la realidad más allá de tu pantalla. Miriam Calzada
Covered by 6 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## LINKS joins forces with Pangaea for global expansion
2018-11-21 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/links-joins-forces-with-pangaea-for-global-expansion

The agency goes international through a network alliance.
November 21, 2018 · Press
LINKS joined forces with the Pangaea network for global expansion, taking its travel-trade practice international.
The client list at the time ran to the tourism ministries of Israel and New Zealand, Viva Airlines, and Vistas del Pedregal, a Greg Norman signature course in the Dominican Republic.
> In a connected yet segmented world it has become even more difficult for clients to gain a share of voice in the market. From the announcement
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## Campamento Esperanza & Alegría
2018-08-31 · Philanthropy · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/campamento-esperanza-and-alegria

The camp that gives the foundation its calendar.
August 31, 2018 · Philanthropy
Campamento Esperanza y Alegría, the summer camp that Clínica de Familia La Romana has run for fourteen years for vulnerable children and adolescents in the east of the country.
Volunteers, called tíos, run a week of painting, sport and music. It is the fixed point in the foundation's calendar, and the reason the philanthropy has a season rather than a campaign.
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## VIVA Air and KAYAK pick LINKS WorldGroup as agency of record
2018-08-08 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/viva-air-and-kayak-pick-links-worldgroup-as-agency

Two travel accounts won in the same week.
August 8, 2018 · Press
LINKS was appointed agency of record for the Colombian low-cost airline VIVA Air as it expanded into new markets, and continued with KAYAK for a second year, running the booking site's communications in Mexico.
Two travel accounts, won in the same week, on the strength of the tourism-board work.
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## ART. Gallery presenta «Revelaciones»
2018-07-20 · Art · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/art-gallery-presenta-revelaciones

The Santo Domingo gallery's own show.
July 20, 2018 · Art
Miriam Calzada's photography exhibition «Revelaciones» opened at ART. Gallery, curated by the artist Leopoldo Maler, her work after twenty-one solo shows in the country.
The gallery was Edward's own, and this was the kind of show it existed to make possible.
> El arte es un reflejo de los deseos más íntimos y del entorno de cada ser. Edward De Valle II
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## ACV and the Dominican tourism board kick off in Toronto
2018-07-09 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/acv-and-the-dominican-tourism-board-kick-off-in

Canadian trade, courted in its own market.
July 9, 2018 · Press
Air Canada Vacations and the Dominican tourism board took a three-day cultural festival to Toronto, courting Canadian trade in its own market.
Eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand Canadians had visited the island the previous year, part of 6.2 million visitors the consulate called crucial to the economy.
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## LINKS builds on its tourism-board record to expand its travel portfolio
2018-07-04 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/links-builds-on-its-tourism-board-record-to-expand

Government tourism work becomes the agency's calling card.
July 4, 2018 · 8 clippings · Press
LINKS expanded its travel portfolio on the strength of its government tourism work, adding clients on the back of mandates for Israel and the Cayman Islands.
The pitch was structural: on-the-ground consultants in the feeder markets rather than a single office selling at a distance.
> LINKS is built to serve clients who want a global understanding of the tourism travel markets and industry as a whole. From the announcement
Covered by 8 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## Forbes Latin America launches at W South Beach
2018-05-15 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/forbes-latin-america-launches-at-w-south-beach

The magazine's regional edition, launched in Miami Beach.
May 15, 2018 · Press
The launch of Forbes Latin America's regional edition, held at the W South Beach in Miami, the magazine Edward would come to own.
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## «Fall in Love with Art», a benefit for children with HIV/AIDS
2018-03-24 · Philanthropy · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/fall-in-love-with-art-a-benefit-for-children

The gallery turned over to a cause for a night.
March 24, 2018 · 4 clippings · Philanthropy
ART. Gallery and the De Valle Foundation held an evening of art, food and music with the artist Daniel Sanseviero, whose work draws on two-dimensional geometry.
Admission was a toy. The evening's proceeds and the toys went to the children of Casa Rosada, the first of the benefits the gallery would host.
Covered by 4 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## Meet the media mogul helping to transform Downtown Miami
2018-03-09 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/meet-the-media-mogul-helping-to-transform-downtown-miami

The Miami years, told by the people who watched the skyline change.
March 9, 2018 · Press
Extra's real-estate correspondent Michael Corbett met Edward in Miami: then the owner of 3A Worldwide, a media group in the middle of the city's growth, to talk about why Miami was worth investing in.
The conversation turned on Brickell City Centre, the billion-dollar development then rising downtown.
Reported by Extra.
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## yoo Santo Domingo
2017-09-18 · Development · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/yoo-santo-domingo

The first design-brand residential tower proposed for the capital.
September 18, 2017 · Development
yoo Santo Domingo: the design brand's residential tower proposed for the capital, and the first time that kind of branded residence had been put to the Dominican market.
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## Risk takers and diligent professionals both reap rewards in real estate
2017-09-18 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/risk-takers-and-diligent-professionals-both-reap-rewards-in

Written by Edward, on which temperament the business actually pays.
September 18, 2017 · Press
Written by Edward: property development is risky and demands real grounding, but real-estate entrepreneurship rewards two temperaments rather than one: the risk-taker who buys land and finances deals, and the diligent professional who does the work behind them.
The argument is that a career in the business needs both, and that most people misjudge which one they are.
> Real estate entrepreneurship attracts the risk takers because if they are successful, the rewards to be reaped at the end are huge. Edward De Valle II
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## Top trends in the content-marketing landscape
2017-09-02 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/top-trends-in-the-content-marketing-landscape

The media operator's read on where attention was going.
September 2, 2017 · 4 clippings · Press
Edward's read on the year ahead in content marketing, written when the market was heading past thirty billion dollars: automation and artificial intelligence at the top of the list.
It is the clearest surviving record of how the media operator thought about attention before he started building hotels.
> No business today can do without some form of content marketing. Edward De Valle II
Covered by 4 outlets on the day; this is the account of record.
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## Inició su empresa de comunicaciones con apenas 108 dólares
2016-05-15 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/inicio-su-empresa-de-comunicaciones-con-apenas-108-dolares

The origin figure, on the record: one hundred and eight dollars.
May 15, 2016 · Press
The origin figure, on the record. Edward started his communications company from home in Miami with a hundred and eight dollars in the bank; twelve years later it was among the leading firms in its sector in South Florida.
A laptop, a fifty-five-dollar desk, a small apartment, and mornings spent looking for clients on the internet: convinced, as he put it, that he had something particular to offer them.
> Tenía en ese momento 108 dólares en mi cuenta bancaria, compré un escritorio de 55 dólares y poseía una laptop. Edward De Valle II
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## Fractional ownership: facts and opportunities, at Island Gardens Miami
2015-01-17 · Press · https://edwarddevalle.com/newsroom/fractional-ownership-facts-and-opportunities-at-island-gardens-miami

A panel on the ownership model that would later shape the condo-hotel.
January 17, 2015 · Press
The Palm Beach Master Brokers Forum: an organisation of South Florida's leading residential agents: held a dinner and panel at Island Gardens, Miami, on the rise of fractional residence ownership.
Fractional buying was then an entry point into the high-end luxury market. A decade later the same logic, applied to hotels, is what a condo-hotel sells.
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