{"id":124186,"date":"2019-03-19T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124186"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:52:52","slug":"tourist-numbers-continue-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/19\/tourist-numbers-continue-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist numbers continue to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tourists-in-DR-El-Dinero.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tourists-in-DR-El-Dinero.jpg 990w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tourists-in-DR-El-Dinero-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tourists-in-DR-El-Dinero-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: El Dinero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank, the number of tourists arriving in the country last month showed an 8% increase over February last year. There were 604,977 passengers arriving by air, both foreign and non-resident Dominicans or 44,998 more than during the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at January and February 2019, there have been 1,203,175 non-resident arrivals, or 6.8% more visitors than during the first two months of last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data, 64.9% of the arrivals in February came from North America, 21.8% from Europe and 2.6% from South America. This was followed by 2.6% from Central America and 0.3% from Asia and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the arrivals, some 66% flew to Punta Cana airport and 14.5% to Santo Domingo. This was followed by 10% that landed in Puerto Plata and the remaining 9.6% arrived at La Romana, Cibao, La Isabela and El Catey airports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/\">Bancentral<\/a> and then Publicaciones Recientes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Central Bank, the number of tourists arriving in the country last month showed an 8% increase over February last year. There were 604,977 passengers arriving by air, both foreign and non-resident Dominicans or 44,998 more than during the same period last year. Looking at January and February 2019, there have been 1,203,175 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/19\/tourist-numbers-continue-to-increase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124186"}],"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=124186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124246,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124186\/revisions\/124246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}