DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

A recent study carried out by Analytica, a leading local research company, reveals that more than six million Dominicans engaged in domestic tourism from 2016 to 2022. Local tourists contributed US$1.55 billion in value added to the tourism sector. Deputy Minister Jacqueline Mora presented the results of the study, “Results of Dominican Tourism.”

Mora said domestic tourism was key to the recovery of the local tourism sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. Locals migrated to live in tourism destinations in pandemic months and then were the first to travel locally, especially as vacationing abroad was off limits or difficult to do during Covid-19 months.

Key indicators analyzed from 2016 to 2022 reveal that the hotel industry generated an added value of US$22.19 billion in 2022, with a multiplier effect of 2.88 in the rest of the economy, in terms of GDP.

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