after a record year in attracting visitors in Dominican Republic and to maintain good occupancy in the different tourist centers of the country, the Holy Week 2024 is emerging as one of the best, although challenging.
this was indicated to .com the president of the Hotel and Tourism Association (Asonahores), David Llibrewho also said that during the holiday, hotel occupancy in general stands at 99%.
«we have a great challenge because it has been an extremely successful high season and Easter precisely falls early in the year, and as it falls in March and is combined with a high occupancy of foreigners, who are and inside the hotels, we have very few emerge and “we are already completely full,” he added.
the manager gave as an example that in the area of Juan Hurt occupancy has remained, from January to date, above 90%. Puerto Plata has shown figures as of February of 65% occupancy. “much better figure than had been experienced in previous years,” and so on throughout the territory. Punta Canawhich is the area with the highest flow of visitors, is also almost full.
due to the full occupancy for the main week, llibre recalled the great investment that is being made in new rooms and that are being developed in traditional and emerging tourist centers.
“for this year 2024 we hope to add 3,000 rooms and if we talk about the next three years it would be about 9,000 which is the projection based on the authorized projects and those that are under construction,” he added.
he recalled that there are also hotels under renovation and that their rooms will return to the operational list.
the president of Asonahores also indicated that the goal is to continue growing with the support of investors who have opted for Dominican tourism due to the combination of factors at the legalization level to establish their developments.