PUERTO PLATA. The Minister of Tourism, David Collado, emphasized that the country is looking at an historic recovery of tourism, which has been confirmed by the WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council).
Issuing his statements during the inauguration of a modern cruise terminal in the city, Collado said that the World Tourism Organization has also set the Dominican Republic as a global example of tourism management in the midst of the pandemic.
“To date, 170,000 jobs have been recovered in international promotion, a great mystery for years, the Tourism Cabinet and the Ministry of Tourism have saved more than 3 billion pesos in a single year, we are being much more effective, and we are being much more efficient with public spending and that is the vision of the Government of Change,” Collado highlighted.
Collado reported that with the new Taíno Bay terminal in Puerto Plata, the first quarter of 2022 will have record figures in the arrival of cruise ships to the country and that in this last quarter nautical tourism has recovered, showing figures higher than in 2019.
“When we came into power, barely 90,000 and 100,000 tourists arrived in the months of August and September 2020, as of July more than 500,000 tourists arrived in the Dominican Republic,” said the tourism minister.
He also emphasized that at the start of President Luis Abinader´s mandate, there were 15 thousand hotel rooms with an occupancy of 15%, but that today there are 73 thousand rooms and an occupancy that exceeds 80%.
Source:
Puerto Plata Digital
