He tourism sector contributes 9 billion dollars a year to economy Dominican through natural capitalwhich is the set of natural resources and ecosystem services of a country, which implies a 22 % contribution of the gross domestic product (GDP), said the doctor in economy Víctor Gómez Valenzuela During a conference organized by the University Intec.
The expert, when dictating the Magistral Conference “Natural Capital of RD and Sustainability”, of the Permanent Seminar Project of Dominican Reality (Semper) in its fourth edition, indicated that these results are the fruit of a study that headed, sponsored by the World Bank.
He stressed that Dominican Republic It has been placed as the Sixth economy high performance in Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean and is largely due to the rise of tourism and the growth of other sectors.
RD leader in economy
Said it is a economy which is approximately one 30 % higher that the Costa Rican, three times the economy Honduran, four times the Nicaraguan and about six times the economy of Haiti, which makes the country a power in the regional context.
“It’s one economy predominantly of services, it is a economy With an average component in terms of industry and manufacturing And where less and less agricultural sector It has a participation, that trend is normal, to the extent that economies are technical, the primary sectors are distributing their contribution with respect to the gross domestic product. “
- He explained that natural capital Basically provide two large sectors of values: use values And the non -use values and in the first line is the use of water, the wind to produce energy and the sun.
Gómez Valenzuela said that 20 % of the tourism production function depends fundamentally on beauty, because tourists come to the country looking for beautiful, clean beaches, scenic beauty, which are priceless.
“That 20% is provided by marine coastal ecosystems of the Dominican Republic,” he said.
