{"id":204554,"date":"2023-10-03T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=204554"},"modified":"2023-10-03T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:29:03","slug":"seven-million-tourists-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/seven-million-tourists-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven million tourists in eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Visitas-Turistas-8-meses-Presidencia-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204576\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Visitas-Turistas-8-meses-Presidencia-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Visitas-Turistas-8-meses-Presidencia-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Visitas-Turistas-8-meses-Presidencia-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Visitas-Turistas-8-meses-Presidencia.png 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With 784,284 visitors arriving by air and sea in August 2023, the Dominican Republic has received more than seven million tourists so far this 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Overcoming the barrier of seven million visitors in just eight months is a true record. In the Dominican Republic. We should feel proud, because we did it again,&#8221; said Minister Collado, when offering statistics on the behavior of the tourism sector in August, in an event held in a hotel in the capital early in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reported that of the 784,284 visitors last month, 665,082 came by air and 119,202 by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first eight months of this year, 5,544,778 tourists arrived by air and 1,535,213 on cruise ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are talking about that in eight months, we received 7,079,991 visitors, 31% more than in 2019, 136% more than in 2021 and 25% above last year,&#8221; reported Collado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister highlighted the sustained increase in the arrival of cruise passengers, pointing out that in the January-August period, 1,535,213 visited the country, while last month 119,202 arrived by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Collado expects the goal of 10 million visitors to be reached by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/rd-supera-ya-los-7-millones-de-visitantes-en-solo-8-meses-en-agosto-llegaron-784284\">Presidency <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 784,284 visitors arriving by air and sea in August 2023, the Dominican Republic has received more than seven million tourists so far this 2023. &#8220;Overcoming the barrier of seven million visitors in just eight months is a true record. In the Dominican Republic. We should feel proud, because we did it again,&#8221; said Minister &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/seven-million-tourists-in-eight-months\/\" 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":[318,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204554"}],"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=204554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204577,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204554\/revisions\/204577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}