The Hotel and Tourism Association (Asonahores), through the “July 2023 Statistical” report, explained that South America is about to be the second largest emitter in the Dominican Republic with 15.58%, almost equaling Europe with 16.20%.
In this sense, it is indicated that the main tourism issuing markets at the moment are: North America with a contribution of 55.50%; Central America and the Caribbean 9.07%; Asia contributed 2.82% and the rest of the world 0.83%.
The contribution according to issuing country is as follows: the United States 39.97%; Canada 14.15%; Colombians follow with 4.27%; Puerto Ricans contributed 3.36%; Argentina 3.30%; France with 2.57%; England 2.42%; Spain at the moment 2.26%; Chileans with a participation of 1.92%; finally the Germans with an incidence of 1.90%.
Likewise, in the period January-July of this year 2023, the arrivals of foreign visitors and non-resident Dominicans show a growth of 13.95%, going from 4,282,207 visitors in 2022 to a total of 4,879,696 in the current year 2023.
Foreigners increased by 17.63% compared to 2022, registering the number of 3,502,152 visitors in 2022 to 4,119,533 in January-July 2023. While non-resident nationals decreased by 2.55%.
The document details that 68.56% of foreign visitors arriving in the country in January-July 2023 entered through the Punta Cana International Airport; followed by Las Américas International Airport (AILA) with 18.47%; arrivals through Cibao airport represented 5.24%; Gregorio Luperón contributed 5.05%; La Romana registered 1.11%; for the Catey airport (Samaná) 1.03%; La Isabela (El Higüero) contributed 0.55%; Finally, the María Montéz airport in the Barahona province did not observe significant movement of travelers at the time.
With respect to occupancy, the average rate in January-July 2023 increased by 7.0%, going from 72.4% in 2022 to 77.4% in January-July of this year 2023, influenced by an increase in arrivals of foreign tourists.
In July 2023, the average hotel occupancy rate averaged 78.3%; while, in the same month of 2022 it was 77.4%, for an increase of 1.2%; while the average occupancy rate corresponding to July 2023 exceeded the month of June of the same year by 4.4%.