Punta Cana.- The main gateway for tourism in the country, the Punta Cana International Airport, is preparing to end the year with the largest contribution of visitors to the tourist entry figures to the Dominican Republic.
Alberto Smith, director of Landside Operations at the terminal, told .com that last year the terminal closed with about 8.2 million passengers (entry and exit) in traffic and this year 2023 has a projection of 8% more than in 2022.
He indicated that the majority of visitors supporting the projections come from the North American market. «The American with 44 and 48% of the total and the Canadian between 14 and 18%. Europeans in that same proportion. South America has been the most pleasant surprise we have had… Colombia is responding in a spectacular way.
In addition, he said that this has been possible due to the great connections that the terminal has with Avianca and its hub in Bogotá, with Copa in its hub in Panama and LAN with its hub in Peru, which are moving the entire Southern Cone and Central America towards Punta Cana.
«We have an interesting and intense projection for this year’s winter marked with good flights. We already have the numbers we had achieved last year in the book, which means that the increase is sustained in that same projection. The end of 2023 will be greatly impacted by significant growth,” he emphasized.
The manager also specified that practically all airlines have increased frequency to the Punta Cana airport on the same route they already operated. «We do not have new airlines, but the same ones that operated with an increase in operations from different destinations and cities that are of origin, such as Southwest, American, United, Delta and JetBlue, which are having an incredible response from Boston, New York. and Puerto Rico.
