The Dominican Republic’s record-breaking tourism tempo continued final month, with the Caribbean’s hottest tourism vacation spot topping 9 million guests to date this yr.
By the tip of October, the nation recorded 9.082 million guests, a ten p.c improve in comparison with the identical interval final yr — and a 47 p.c leap in comparison with the primary 10 months of 2019, earlier than the onset of the pandemic.
That included a powerful exhibiting within the cruise sector, which is now nearing 2.1 million passenger arrivals in 2024.
It’s been an “extraordinary” complete for the nation, in response to Dominican Republic Tourism Minister David Collado.
October noticed 554,169 stayover arrivals, itself a 4 p.c leap from the identical month final yr.
The nation is projecting a complete of 12 million guests by the tip of this yr, a objective that when appeared, nicely, formidable, however now appears very possible certainly.
