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"We surprised the industry when we reopened for business less than a year after," said Dos Palmas Arreceffi Island Resorts, Inc. president and general manager Ivan Lim.  "We decided to reopen because we wanted to prove that we could make it."


One of the first decisions made by the company upon reopening was to increase room rates by between 20% and 30%. 


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DOS PALMAS ARRECEFFI ISLAND RESORTS

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The turnaround of Dos Palmas

By Margaret Jao-Grey  | July 26, 2004 - 12:00am

Nobody expected much from Dos Palmas after a band of Abu Sayyaf took resort guests, many of them foreigners, as hostages in May 2001. As expected, it shut down. "We surprised the industry when we reopened...

Business As Usual