{"id":11974,"date":"2025-12-11T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=11974"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:47:21","slug":"the-arrival-of-visitors-to-the-country-exceeds-10-2-million-as-of-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/the-arrival-of-visitors-to-the-country-exceeds-10-2-million-as-of-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The arrival of visitors to the country exceeds 10.2 million as of November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As of November 2025<\/strong>, the Dominican Republic<\/strong> attracted 10,284,251 non-resident foreign visitors<\/strong> by air and sea, reflecting a 3.1% increase<\/strong> compared to January\u2013November 2024 and 1.2 million more<\/strong> than in 2023\u2014the first year the tourism industry surpassed 10 million visitors\u2014according to the Ministry of Tourism this Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Air arrivals reached 7,884,241 tourists<\/strong>, while 2,399,830 cruise passengers<\/strong> entered through Dominican ports, both marking 3% growth<\/strong> compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November alone<\/strong>, visitor arrivals exceeded one million<\/strong>\u2014with 715,916 air passengers<\/strong> and 284,568 cruise passengers<\/strong>\u2014representing 119,350 more visitors<\/strong> than in November of last year, when total arrivals reached 881,134. This reflects a 13.5% increase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More mexican an U.S. travelers arriving by air<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe numbers speak for themselves,\u201d said Tourism Minister David Collado<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He recalled that the Dominican tourism industry has surpassed pre-2019 levels even without the more than 600,000 Russian and Ukrainian tourists<\/strong> who visited the country annually before the war between those nations\u2014a decline reflected at La Romana International Airport<\/strong>, which received only 7,635 tourists<\/strong>, 62% fewer<\/strong> than during the pre-pandemic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the growing interest of Latin American tourists<\/strong> in visiting the Dominican Republic\u201446% more Mexicans, 23% more Argentinians, and 14% more Colombians visiting the country in November alone<\/strong>\u2014has compensated for the drop in Eastern European visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is further supported by the United States<\/strong>, the country\u2019s main source market, which is sending more travelers, helping recover demand that lagged for much of 2025 due to trade tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November<\/strong>, 39% of tourists<\/strong> originated from the United States<\/strong>, marking a 10% year-over-year increase<\/strong>, with 22,402 more visitors<\/strong> than during the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accordingly, Punta Cana International Airport<\/strong>\u2014the terminal receiving the most passengers from North America\u2014recorded 9% growth<\/strong> compared to 2024 and handled 62% of all tourists<\/strong> (442,566 passengers in total).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was followed by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These arrivals resulted in a 73% hotel occupancy rate<\/strong>\u2014including new hotel rooms that entered operations this year\u2014and an 86% room availability rate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruise arrivals up 32.9% in November alone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruise visitor arrivals reached 284,568<\/strong>, a 32.4% increase<\/strong> compared to the 214,089 cruise passengers<\/strong> who arrived in November of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n With these results, Collado estimates that total visitor arrivals at the close of 2025<\/strong> will range between 11.5 and 11.6 million<\/strong> by air and sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of November 2025, the Dominican Republic attracted 10,284,251 non-resident foreign visitors by air and sea, reflecting a 3.1% increase compared to January\u2013November 2024 and 1.2 million more than in 2023\u2014the first year the tourism industry surpassed 10 million visitors\u2014according…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11972,"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-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment-in-dr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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