{"id":132022,"date":"2019-10-16T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132022"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:19:46","slug":"tourism-industry-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/tourism-industry-suffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism industry suffers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/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\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The negative press reports earlier this year on American tourists dying in the country has had a detriment effect on the tourism industry. According to Economist Henri Hebrard in an interview with the Listin Diario newspaper, the country has had losses of around US$200 million from June to September this year, due to the decrease in American tourist arrivals. Hebrard explained that the average amount spent by these tourists is around US$1,200 per trip and multiplying this by the reduction in numbers leads him to that figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hebrard said this situation is one of the reasons the peso is depreciating to the US dollar. He pointed out that around 20% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) depends on tourism. In addition to the negative press, the collapse of the Thomas Cook Group is leading to further problems over the winter season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest figures from the Central Bank, at the end of September, the number of non-residents coming from North America was down by 1.7%, representing 49,941 fewer air arrivals. This was 33,148 fewer travelers from the United States and 18,538 fewer travelers from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the air arrivals of tourists from Europe, these were also down, with 46,689 fewer air arrivals for a decrease of 4.7%. The main reason for the decline is that visitors are down from the United Kingdom (-24,122), Germany (-18,040), Russia (-7,752), Sweden (-4,512), and France (-4,328), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/economia\/2019\/10\/15\/586902\/pais-ha-dejado-de-percibir-cerca-de-us-200-mm-por-baja-turistas-ee-uu-\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The negative press reports earlier this year on American tourists dying in the country has had a detriment effect on the tourism industry. According to Economist Henri Hebrard in an interview with the Listin Diario newspaper, the country has had losses of around US$200 million from June to September this year, due to the decrease &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/tourism-industry-suffers\/\" 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":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132022"}],"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=132022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132053,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132022\/revisions\/132053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}