as for the video, that's a advertising of a immigations lawyer office.
it's nice done, it show's the mostly english speaking future expats that they find here in DR perfectly english speaking lawyer assistance for such things.
as for the comparison of real settled-in Expats/legal Residents to a tourist,well, such epat bring's the DR for sure at least the $$ as minimum 100 Tourists could.
but the expat is bringing that $$ steadily, always.
I spend for monthly expenses here with my small family for the basics like school, maintaining a car, rent, grocery shopping, clothes etc etc around $30KUS per year.
that's me, one Expat, the only one in the family who make's money, as my wife is the house wife and kids are in school.
a tourist comes for a week or two, very most northamerican tourists visiting PC come for only 4-6 nights per Year, summing 6 millions of such tourists per year for the DR.
such tourist spend's to the DR(NOT to their touroperator or hotel managing/owning corporation abroad etc) what, $300-maximum $500.-US per guest reaching the DR due taxes, excursions, drinking and eating outside the AI Resort etc etc?
so we need 100 tourists to bring the DR the same money as the fishing expat does, but I do so guaranteed all year long, constantly.
I bet if some smart guy does a real professional in dept reserach on the impact of such Epxat dollars, that I do also assure the DR the same number of Employment than those 100 tourists do.
we have 60.000 legal residentsin DR, each contribute's to the DR Economy the same amount as i do per family, valid the contribution of 100 tourists,
means the 60.000 residents equal the contribution of 6.000.0000 Tourists.
this is just a vague comparison, not every expat spend's with his small family 30K$ per year for a living, some spend well less but others also sped waaaay more, i know some who spend solely for their rental more than I spend every year for everything, so i would guess i am not that far away from an average resident level.
what i did not sum in my resident/expat yearly expenses is the every year done extras to spend, like every few years buying an new(less old used) vehicle, a new fridge, TV, all that extra stuff not counted in the normal monthly expenses, while the tourist speds just those few hundreds per head and ya, thats it.
and i did not take into count that i run a business and have employees, but solely due the constant spending money all year long a 60.000 residents will asure a similar amount of employment in the DR as Tourim does with 6.000.000 tourists visiting.
I personally think that the Resident community is indeed a significant power within the huge DR economy, Including during hard times like this Pandemic, hence the moneys send into the DR are rising numbers, a booming sector during low economy times.
abolutely without any doubt from my side,
the DR has to push back up Tourim as quick as possible, doen't matter how much moneys have to be invested from the government's side, all the employment and production of so many sectors like agriculture, construction, service sectors etc etc etc are urgently needed to be back and running, as that large number of actually unemployed citizens then will be an other additional Significant force to spend money on daily bases on the DR economy.