{"id":165147,"date":"2021-09-21T08:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165147"},"modified":"2021-09-21T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:56:34","slug":"august-2021-tourist-arrival-stats-almost-at-level-of-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/august-2021-tourist-arrival-stats-almost-at-level-of-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2021 tourist arrival stats almost at level of August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Banco-Central-de-la-Republica-Dominicana-El-Dinero-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135017\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank reports the arrival of 2,938,205 tourists for the January-August 2021 period. This is up 79.2% compared to last year. Of the total, 70.4% are non-resident foreigners and 29.6% are non-resident Dominicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2021, 476,575 tourists arrived, of which 75.1% are non-resident foreigners. The arrivals in August 2021 compare to 497 thousand that arrived in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, reflecting the strong recovery of the Dominican tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank reports on the gradual recovery of visitor arrivals. In January 2021, the stats for the month were but 34.3% of January 2019 stats. By May 2021, stats were 74.1% and for August are 95.8% of the 2019 monthly total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>70% of Dominican tourists come from North America, primarily the United States. 55.4% of all tourists arrived via the Punta Cana International Airport in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/bancentral.gov.do\/Publicaciones\/Consulta?CategoryId=88\">Central Bank <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank reports the arrival of 2,938,205 tourists for the January-August 2021 period. This is up 79.2% compared to last year. Of the total, 70.4% are non-resident foreigners and 29.6% are non-resident Dominicans. In August 2021, 476,575 tourists arrived, of which 75.1% are non-resident foreigners. The arrivals in August 2021 compare to 497 thousand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/august-2021-tourist-arrival-stats-almost-at-level-of-august-2019\/\" 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\/165147"}],"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=165147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165171,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165147\/revisions\/165171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}