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- The land they bought was known as Punta Borrachón (“Drunken Point”) and the investors quickly realized they needed to change that name to something that sounded better and so Dominican entrepreneur and Frank Rainieri decided to use the name of the first hotel in the area called The Punta Cana Club.
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May 2, 2019 · Punta Borrachon to Punta Cana. Punta Borrachon (drunken point) was the original name of Punta Cana. Not very appealing when you are planning to build a resort town. That is why Frank R. Rainieri changed it to Punta Cana. Cana is the name of a type of palm tree that grows in Punta Cana.
land originally called Punta Borrachón (Drunkard’s Point). Today, Punta Cana has become a generic name, a country brand - the most recognized Dominican brand in the world. As a result, our brand name is now PUNTACANA. Here is Punta Cana’s history in a nutshell: Back in 1969 a group of American investors,
History of the Puntacana Group. Upon their arrival in the region in 1969, then called Yauya or Punta Borrachón, a group of North Americans led by the New Yorker lawyer Theodore W. Kheel and young Dominican businessman Frank Rainieri, had the dream and vision of developing a tourism community that respects nature and promotes social ...
Old image of Punta Cana Club Wisely changing the name of the land from Punta Borrachon ('Drunken Point'), the investors called the land Punta Cana, after the Punta Cana Club, a local hotel. Punta Cana soon began to attract attention from the rest of the world.
Visitors may be interested to learn that Punta Cana specifically started out as our company’s name, a brand created in the early 1970’s by Frank Rainieri, for a piece of land originally called Punta Borrachón (Drunkard’s Point). Today, Punta Cana is the most recognized Dominican brand in the world. As a result, our brand name is now ...
Although at the time the area was known as Punta Borrachón, Rainieri wisely decided to change the name to Punta Cana because of the palm leaf – in the particular shape of a fan – that grows freely in the region. That is when in 1971 the Grupo Puntacana SA formally opened the doors of the first hotel in the region: the Punta Cana Club.
In 1970, Rainieri changed the original name of the place, Yauya or Punta Borrachos, for Punta Cana. In 1978, the Paris Mediterranean Club joined the Grupo Punta Cana SA project, building a 350-room hotel within the project.
