DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The executive vice president of the National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores), Andres Marranzini forecasts good times for the tourism industry are coming. When interviewed for D’Agenda on Telesistema, Channel 11, Marranzini forecast around 4 million arrivals for this year. He expects the number of air arrivals to be more than what has originally been forecast by the Central Bank for 2022.

Marranzini says there will not be a low season in the next 18 months as people resume traveling with a vengeance after months of lockdown. He forecast 2022 will be one single high season year as people resume traveling.

“The governor of the Central Bank spoke of close to four and a half or four million visitors this year, which was the estimate that institution had made,” he remarked. He added: “It is not unreasonable to think of a number like that seeing that, in...