Tourism continues to register sustained and extraordinary growth in the Dominican Republic by reaching a record 6,968,623 visitors in the first seven months of this year, which brings the historic figure of 31,947,565 visits from August 2020 to July 2024.
This was shown this Wednesday by the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, when he presented the figures of the behavior of tourism during an activity carried out in a hotel in the Dominican capital.
He reported that in July alone 811,192 tourists arrived in the country by air, 2% more than the same month last year, 10% more than in 2022 and 37% more than in 2019.
He also said that last month the country received 206,704 cruise passengers, which is 39 % more than the same month last year, 95 % above 2022 and 148 % higher than 2019.
“We are talking that last month alone the country received 1,017,896 visitors, 8 % above last year, 21 % more than in 2022 and 51 % higher than in 2019,” said the Minister of Tourism in his now traditional monthly report on the behavior of the sector.
He indicated that this growth was sustained throughout the January-July period, when the country recorded the arrival, by air, of 5,286,174 non-residents, which exceeds the first 7 months of last year by 8 %, with 23 % in 2022 and 27 % in 2019.
By sea, Collado pointed out, it was much higher, registering the arrival of 1,682,449 cruise passengers, which represents an increase of 19 % more than in the January-July period last year, 155 % higher than 2022 and 156 % above 2019.
“And so we get the big number: 6,968,623 visitors in the first 7 months of the year. We do it again,” the official proclaimed.
He stated that this represents a growth of 11% more than in the same period of 2023, 41% above 2022, 44% of 2019 and 48% 2018.
Minister Collado highlighted that from August 16 through July the country received 31,947, 565, a figure that far exceeds any past four-year period.
“All this indicates the growth, forcefully, of tourism in our management,” Minister Collado sentenced.
Source:presidencia.gob.do
