The air arrivals of tourists from South America to the Dominican Republic show a growth of 17.8% between January and November this year, thus placing it as the second region of origin of travelers who spend the night in the country, above Europe.
The data, published by the Ministry of EconomyPlanning and Development (Mepyd) point to an expansion of 2.4 percentage points above Europe, whose air arrivals They represented 15.4% of the 10,005,800 visitors who were in the country in the last 11 months.
In this way, the air arrivals of tourists from the Old Continent –a market that traditionally sends tourists to the Dominican Republic–was in third place, due to the international trend of fewer trips after a prolonged economic crisis due to the effects of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
He continued to lead first place North Americawith a participation of 54.4% in the air arrivals.
In fact, 39% of tourists that entered through the main airports of the country did so from the United States, 13% did so from Canada and 3% from the island of Puerto Rico.
These were followed by two South American countries: Colombia (contributing 5%) and Argentina (with 4%). Thus, these five destinations contributed 65.1% of the passengers foreigners that the country received during the aforementioned period, highlights the Mepyd in its most recent “Macroeconomic Situation Report.”
arrival of visitors grows 9.0% between January and November
In general, the arrival of visitors It represented an increase of 9.0% in the last 11 months, compared to the same period in 2023.
For Novemberthe number of visitors was 881,499 only in Novemberfor a growth year-on-year of 1.1%.
Of this accumulated total, 7.7 million passengers They arrived in the country by air, for an increase of 6.4% until Novemberof which 84.2% were foreigners and 15.8% were non-resident Dominicans.
Regarding arrivals by sea, the total of cruise passengers that arrived in the country was 214,454 in Novemberfor a cumulative 2.3 million since January, for an increase of 18.6% compared to January-November 2023, after the arrival of 693 ships.
