In June 2013 a plan was launched for a reorganization of the beach of Sosúa.
This after a visit to Francisco Javier García the Minister of Tourism in Santo Domingo.
Present were among others Mayor Ilana Neumann of Sosúa, mr. Pastoriza (chairman ADSS) and the then director of Tourism, Lorenzo Sancasani.
In this meeting the minister was presented with the reorganization plan of the beach of Sosúa.
Playa Sosúa
In this plan, at least 300 sellers on the beach would be removed.
At both ends of the beach (El Batey and Charamicos) there were shopping centers with parking facilities to be constructed.
There should be created a total of 250 shops.
There was also a plan for a sports center.
The minister thought that widening the thoroughfare from Puerto Plata along Sosúa and Cabarete would increase the number of tourists to Sosúa beach.
The minister believed that the construction of the cruise ship terminal in Maimón would also bring more tourists to Sosúa.
In any case, the beach would no longer be accessible to the itinerant trade.
The minister promised to speed up the implementation of the plan and he thought that work on redesigning the beach could begin at the end of September 2013.
After this announcement, a lot of resistance and unrest arose among the trinkets sellers on the beach.
We are now in September 2019, so 6 years later, and so far none of these plans have been implemented.
