{"id":181708,"date":"2022-07-05T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=181708"},"modified":"2022-07-05T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:56:49","slug":"dr-breaks-record-with-644861-foreign-arrivals-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/05\/dr-breaks-record-with-644861-foreign-arrivals-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"DR breaks record with 644,861 foreign arrivals in June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/David-Collado-record-llegadas-Presidencia-e1657025797703.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181778\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) reported on 4 July 2022 a new record in tourist arrivals for the month of June. Tourism Minister David Collado announced that 644,861 foreigners arrived in June 2022. This is 9.9% more than in June 2018 and 9.8% higher than in June 2019, the two pre-pandemic years. He attributed the increase to the total recovery of the industry due to the efforts of the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collado announced that 3,547,142 tourists have visited the country in the first half of the year. He said average hotel occupancy is at 71% with an average stay of 10 days. Punta Cana and Las Americas (Santo Domingo) airports have received the most visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collado said that there has been a sustained increase in visitors by sea.  He revealed that 72,689 cruise passengers visited in June, which represents 25% more than those arriving in the same period of 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collado forecast the year will close with more than seven million visitors, &#8220;a historic figure in tourist arrivals to the Dominican Republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/rd-rompe-records-con-llegada-de-644861-extranjeros-para-lograr-el-mejor-mes-de-junio-de-la  5 July 2022\">Presidency<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) reported on 4 July 2022 a new record in tourist arrivals for the month of June. Tourism Minister David Collado announced that 644,861 foreigners arrived in June 2022. This is 9.9% more than in June 2018 and 9.8% higher than in June 2019, the two pre-pandemic years. He attributed the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/05\/dr-breaks-record-with-644861-foreign-arrivals-in-june\/\" 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":[294,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181708"}],"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=181708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181780,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181708\/revisions\/181780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}