With a refreshed image and concept, as well as a venue that offers participants and attendees a more suitable hotel and dining experience for an event of its nature and scale, the Dominican Cigar Expo ushers in a new chapter of the former festival. In its first two editions, the event attracted over 24,000 attendees. Now, this celebration of Dominican tobacco and Cigar Culture will take place from April 25 to 27 at the Parque Central in Santiago de los Caballeros.
With an extensive background in the tobacco industry, during which he successfully established himself as an industrialist, Don Osvaldo Radhamés Rodríguez, president of Tabacalera El Artista, envisioned creating an organization to help small and medium-sized producers grow and secure their place in the sector.
This goal, set 25 years ago, came to fruition in 2020 with the founding of the Asociación Dominicana de Cigarros y Tabaco (Adocitab), which he chairs: “I remember that only eight people attended our first meeting, but we worked hard, with determination and persistence, and today we have 66 member companies representing over 85% of the country’s cigar producers. That speaks volumes.”
