Tourism

Dominican Republic expects 4.8m tourists

September 13, 2021 by IC Insider.com

Growth in tourism expected in 2021

The Dominican Republic will receive 4,840,376 tourists by the end of this year, just 75 percent of the 6,446,036 non-resident foreigners who arrived on the island in 2019, the country’s Minister of Tourism stated.
On Wednesday, September 8th, the Minister of Tourism David Collado said that between January and August 2021, 2.94 million tourists arrived in the country and the projected that, from October to December, “if everything continues normally within the pandemic,” a further 1.55 million visitors will arrive in the Dominican Republic.
“We are going to end the year at 4,840,376 non-resident arrivals, which is a number that we could never imagine we would be able to have in 2021. We are giving clear signals that tourism is recovering in a sustainable way in the Dominican Republic.” Tourism Analytics reported the information.

Filed Under: Economy, General News Tagged With: Caribbean Tourism, Dominican Republic, Tourism

Promising tourist season went south

June 10, 2020 by IC Insider.com

Jamaica was enjoying a promising 2020 tourism season and then suddenly things went awfully, bad with the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus that led to the closure of the country’s airports in March and disrupting visitor arrivals.
Stopover visitor arrivals rose strongly by 6 percent first two months of the year ahead of the similar period last year. January enjoyed a 4.9 percent bounce according to data put out by the JTB with February rising by 7.1 percent.
The critically, important USA market that accounts for about two thirds of visitors and much more in dollar intake, outperformed the overall industry bringing 9.7 percent more stopover visitors to the island in the two-month period. Arrivals from Canada were up just 1.6 percent. The UK market the third best market for Jamaica was down 2.1 percent, Europe fell 20.3 percent, but the Latin American market jumped stunning 58 percent to 10,566 persons. The Caribbean region saw 6.4 percent more arrivals coming in than in 2019. Asia fell a sharp 22.4 percent. Africa declined 13 percent and other countries 9.3 percent with just 747 arrivals. The U.S.A market accounted for 64.5 percent of stopover arrivals for the period, up from 62.4 percent in 2019. American tourists spend more on their vacations than the vast majority of visitors.
Cruise ship visitor arrivals continued the decline experienced since last year with a 15.2 percent fall having declined in both months of the year.
Figures for March, are not yet available, but will likely show a sharp fall with the closure of airports in March.

Filed Under: Economy, Feature Stories Tagged With: Jamaica tourism, Tourism, Tourism arrivals 2020

Growth in 2019 tourist arrivals slowing

August 12, 2019 by IC Insider.com

Jamaica had strong growth in tourism for winter 2019

Stopover arrivals growth to Jamaica slowed to 5.8 percent in May and June this year, compared to the hectic pace earlier in the year and 8 percent in May and June in 2018.
Growth of stopover arrivals was a robust 13.4 percent for the first four months of this year over the similar period, in 2018.
The country welcomed 238,888 stopover arrivals in June this year, an increase of 4.2 percent or 9,627 additional arrivals over the 229,261 recorded in June 2018. For the summer months of May and June, arrivals increased to 449,552 stopovers compared to 424,752 last year.
For the year to June, arrivals increased 11 percent, with 1,390,683 stopovers, 136,195 more than the 1,254,488 in 2018. Total stopover arrivals in 2018, grew 5.1 percent, over 2017 with to 2,472,727 compared to 2,352,915.
The United States remains Jamaica’s most important market, accounting for 68 percent of stopover arrivals in 2019, followed by Canada with 16 percent and the United Kingdom 8 percent. For the January to June period, the US market region has grown by 15.6 percent, with 945,761 visitors, 127,863 more compared to the 815,898 visiting during the same period in 2018.