In the first eleven months of 2025, the Dominican state raised 15,357.2 million of pesos of only two charges linked to the tourism: he exit tax of passengers abroad – a retention applied in the country’s airports – and the tourism cards -a fee of 10 dollars paid by non-resident foreigners who enter without a visa for vacation purposes.
This represents an increase of 3.4% compared to the 14,851.7 million of pesos registered for both concepts until November 2024 and 99.1% compliance with the collection goal set in the reformulated State budget, which estimated 15,503.8 million pesos.
The data, published by the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII), reflect the impact that the treasury receives directly from the tourist activitywhich attracted 7,884,422 passengers airway to last Novemberso the final income will be higher when the impact of the 976,747 additional travelers who traveled through the Dominican air terminals in December is computed, which allowed the year to close with 8,861,169 passengers.
According to the collecting entity, 66.2% of the amounts collected during that period (10,162.3 million) came from the exit tax of passengers, while the remaining 33.8% (5,195 million pesos) came from the tourism cards.
only in last Novemberhe exit tax of passengers reached 809 million pesos, 12.1% more than the 721.5 million in the same period of 2024 (87.5 million more).
Meanwhile, the tourism cards went from 419.9 million to 476.5 million pesos, for a growth of 13.5% (56.7 million more).
This meant that, overall, both taxes will reach the 1,285.5 million in last November144.1 million more than what was registered until November 2024 (1,141.4 million), for an increase of 12.6%.
Foreign investment
At a macro level, the tourist activity It also contributes significantly to economic growth through the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) that the sector attracts.
Until the third quarter of 2025, they had entered the country cumulatively 923.8 million dollars in foreign investment only tourismaccording to the data that rests in the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
In this way, the tourism was the segment that contributed the most to attracting foreign capital only behind the energy sector (1,010.7 million), thus adding 22.6% of the foreign direct investment accumulated, which totaled 4,082.4 million dollars until last September.
The monetary entity projected that at the end of 2025 the foreign direct investment would exceed the 4.8 billion dollarswith the tourism maintaining a relevant participation within that flow.
Likewise, the BCRD estimated that during 2025 the sector tourism would contribute 11.2 billion dollars in foreign currency to the economy, an achievable performance given the sustained growth of the tourist flow, with the arrival of 11,676,901 visitors at the end of last year.
