{"id":145276,"date":"2020-08-12T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=145276"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:26:42","slug":"july-travel-numbers-well-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/july-travel-numbers-well-down\/","title":{"rendered":"July travel numbers well down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Llegada-pasajeros-aeropuertos-El-Dia-e1596718863988.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144991\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign arrivals were down 88.5% and Dominican non-resident arrivals 33% in July 2020 compared to July 2019. Dominican airports received 135,163 non-resident travelers in the first month of opening. In July 2020, the number of arrivals included 81,058 non-resident Dominicans and 54,105 non-resident foreigners. Of these 46,207 or 85.4% came from the United States in July 2019, 591,348 non-resident visitors had arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statistics are for the first month after airports reopened on 1 July following shutdown from 20 March through 30 June 2020 due to the Covid-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, given the interruption in travel, overall travel from January to July 2020 was 1,529,254 non-resident visitors. This is down 63.3% compared to the first seven months of 2019. Foreign arrivals were down 65% and Dominican non-resident arrivals were down 52.9% this year compared to January-July 2019. Dominican travelers for the period were 756,017. This is 62.7% less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank says that 60.2% of the non-resident travelers for the January-July period were from the United States and Canada, 25.4% from Europe, 11.1% from South America, 2.9% from Central America and the Caribbean and 0.4% from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakdown by airport was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punta Cana: 749,635<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las Americas \/ Santo Domingo: 219,517<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puerto Plata: 128,019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Romana: 58,955<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cibao \/ Santiago: 56,912<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Catey \/ Saman\u00e1: 25,448<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Isabela \/ Santo Domingo: 5,094<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/\">Central Bank<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 August 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign arrivals were down 88.5% and Dominican non-resident arrivals 33% in July 2020 compared to July 2019. Dominican airports received 135,163 non-resident travelers in the first month of opening. In July 2020, the number of arrivals included 81,058 non-resident Dominicans and 54,105 non-resident foreigners. Of these 46,207 or 85.4% came from the United States in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/july-travel-numbers-well-down\/\" 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":[272,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145276"}],"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=145276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145305,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145276\/revisions\/145305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}