According to new data from hotel analytics firm STR, the Dominican Republic is continuing a full-fledged hotel development boom. The Caribbean’s most popular tourist destination has a total of 6,200 rooms in construction right now, or 8.7 percent of its existing hotel supply, reports Caribbean Journal.
That is the largest number of rooms under construction of any Caribbean destination, followed by Cuba, which has 600 rooms in construction, or 0.9 percent of its supply. That comes after the Dominican Republic saw a 6 percent growth in its hotel stock in 2018, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism.
Last year’s additions increased the Dominican Republic’s hotel supply by 4,365 rooms, meaning that there are now 80,257 hotel rooms, as reported in Caribbean Journal.
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3 April 2019