Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia says that tourism continues to achieve record numbers, after registering a 14% growth rate in October with the arrival of 39,726 additional visitors. The Minister of Tourism also reported that the accumulated growth during the period between January and October is 9.7%, much higher than the level registered by the World Tourism Organization for the Caribbean region, which averaged 5.9%.
The minister announced that from January to October, the country received 4,214,764 non-resident visitors through the airports, which represents an increase of an additional 374,003 compared to the same period in 2013. Of this total, 3,690,978 travelers were listed as foreigners.