{"id":117856,"date":"2018-10-23T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=117856"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:00:35","slug":"tourist-numbers-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/tourist-numbers-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist numbers continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117832\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117832\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Tourist-arriving-Diario-Libre-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The most recent report about the flow of tourists issued by the Central Bank shows that 57.6% of the foreigners who visited the country during the period January to September 2018 were aged between 21 and 49 years. According to the report there were 5,009.417 non-resident visitors who arrived in the period that is 297,931 more than in the same time period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to say that in September 2018 there were 365,368 nonresident passengers arriving who were foreigners and 64,452 nonresident Dominicans. This represents an increase of 16.4% of foreigners and 22.1% of nonresident Dominicans over the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that the increase reflects the fact that a year ago the country was impacted by the Hurricanes Irma and Maria that caused flight cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, visitors from Europe continue to decline with a 4% decrease over the first nine months of last year, mainly due to decreases from Germany (-39,966), Russia (-20,237), Spain(-11,211), Switzerland (-4,690) and Holland (-3,675).<br \/>\nThe Punta Cana International Airport continues to be the busiest, with nearly 70% of all passenger arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/economia\/2018\/10\/22\/538468\/el-57-6-de-turistas-tiene-edad-entre-21-a-49-anos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gdc.bancentral.gov.do\/Common\/public\/publicaciones-economicas\/informe-del-flujo-turistico\/\/documents\/\/informe_turistico2018-09.pdf\">Banco Central<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent report about the flow of tourists issued by the Central Bank shows that 57.6% of the foreigners who visited the country during the period January to September 2018 were aged between 21 and 49 years. According to the report there were 5,009.417 non-resident visitors who arrived in the period that is 297,931 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/tourist-numbers-continue-to-rise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}