(CNN) The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Tourism is rolling out new safety measures in an effort to calm the fears of Americans traveling to the Caribbean island, according to the ministry's chief of staff Pablo Espinal.

The measures include inspecting hotels more often, requiring hotels to post emergency contact information in every guest room, adding more monitoring measures to medical facilities located inside hotels and opening an emergency tourist center.

"Given the amount of coverage that we have gotten over the last couple of months we do recognize that there may be some concern among some of the tourists," Espinal told CNN by phone.

Dominican Republic authorities maintain that their own investigations revealed that the Americans died from natural causes

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