{"id":10951,"date":"2024-12-02T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:54:47","slug":"tourism-generates-more-than-20-of-the-total-foreign-currency-that-enters-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/tourism-generates-more-than-20-of-the-total-foreign-currency-that-enters-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism generates more than 20% of the total foreign currency that enters the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The development of the tourism sector in the Dominican Republic is associated with the dynamics of the productive apparatus. In 13 years, this industry generated foreign exchange income worth US$ 85,469 million and in 2023 alone, there was an increase of 17% compared to 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the “Provincial Productive Profiles” analysis issued by the Export and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic (ProDominicana), tourism has managed to transform from a traditional economy to one where services “play an increasingly greater specific role.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tourism sector contributes 8.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the income generated accounts for more than 20% of the total foreign currency that enters the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six destinations with the biggest accommodation supply<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 90.08% of the hotel rooms available in the country are concentrated in six destinations. Currently, the Dominican Republic has 981 lodging establishments, and 87,723 hotel rooms distributed throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The B\u00e1varo-Punta Cana tourist area (La Altagracia province) has 60.26% of the total rooms. Puerto Plata has 12.72%, Distrito Nacional 8.14%, Saman\u00e1 5.96% and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds 3.0%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The country’s goal is to end 2024 with 11.5 million visitors, to break the “record” of 10.3 million who arrived in 2023, 21.5% more than in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main airport is Punta Cana, in La Altagracia province, according to the number of visitors, a destination that receives more than 50% of the foreigners who arrive in the country. According to Prodominicana’s analysis, this is associated with the number of rooms in the province, exceeding 60% of the country’s total units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is followed by the Jos\u00e9 Francisco Pe\u00f1a G\u00f3mez airport (Las Am\u00e9ricas), which on average receives about 30% of visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The development of the tourism sector in the Dominican Republic is associated with the dynamics of the productive apparatus. In 13 years, this industry generated foreign exchange income worth US$ 85,469 million and in 2023 alone, there was an increase…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment-in-dr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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