The Dominican Republic will have by the end of 2019 beginning some 80,000 hotel rooms. This number still impacts me today for when I was studying hotel management back in 1987-1992, there were only 4,000 rooms in the country.

Knowing this and knowing such a growing pace is possible makes me know that my hotel photography business is going in the right direction. For the las 10 years approximately I have dedicated my photography to hotels and resorts here in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. I have done a few in Italy and Mexico, but mostly in the DR. Being the largest of the Caribbean islands, the Dominican Republic certainly offers clients many different types of accommodations.

I have photographed small 5 room boutique hotels in the Santo Domingo Colonial City to a 5 star luxury property like Amanera. All are part of the tourism offer that the Dominican Republic has. Punta Cana is probably mostly known outside the DR but places such as Samaná and Puerto Plata have many beautiful places as well including airports. Remember that the Punta Cana name (where high luxury accommodations started) was basically “stolen” to the nearby Bávaro zone where now most hotels have the name Punta Cana instead of Bávaro. To separate them from these hotels, the PuntaCana Group is now using the name PuntaCana (both words together) instead of Punta Cana (both words separately) which is what all of the Bávaro hotels are using as so to be associated with the famous brand Punta Cana. So when you see PuntaCana (both words together) it means the group PuntaCana, where hotels such as The Westin, Tortuga Bay and Four Points are. PuntaCana is of course very well know to guest the PGA Tour in the Corales Golf Club.

As a hotel photographer from the Dominican Republic I can definitely say that photo quality is the most important for a hotel’s visual marketing. It is of upmost importance since a bad and poor quality photo cannot be associated with any hotel.

Thiago da Cunha

Hotel Photographer