{"id":242432,"date":"2025-10-07T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=242432"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:00:31","slug":"record-breaking-growth-in-first-nine-months-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/record-breaking-growth-in-first-nine-months-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking growth in first nine months 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-1024x639.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242503\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-1536x958.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/David-Collado-Diario-Libre-2048x1278.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic has received 8,592,694 visitors in the first nine months of the year (January-September 2025), a clear sign of the tourism sector&#8217;s consistent growth and economic impact, according to a Ministry of Tourism press release. Air traffic in September is up 4.6% compared to September 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in the capital, Minister David Collado detailed the industry&#8217;s performance, indicating there has been a 49% increase when compared to pre-pandemic year of 2019 and a 2.6% increase year-over-year compared to 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of visitors includes tourists arriving by air and cruise passengers:<br>\u2022 Air tourists: 6,575,483 arrivals were recorded, which is a 32% growth from 2019, a 9% growth from 2023, and a 2.3% increase over 2024.<br>\u2022 Cruise passengers: 2,017,221 cruise passengers were received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These two numbers mark another record: the arrival of 8,592,694 million visitors in nine months. We did it again,&#8221; Minister Collado stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focusing on September alone, Minister Collado highlighted significant growth indicating the country received 490,431 tourists by air, a 4.6% growth in air tourism compared to the previous year. Additionally, 97,700 cruise passengers arrived during the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Collado also provided a breakdown of the source markets and receiving airports for the period. The top source countries are: the United States (38%), followed by Colombia (10%), Canada (8%), Argentina (7%), and then Mexico, Puerto Rico, and England each contributing 1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top arrival airports are Punta Cana with 59%, followed by Las Am\u00e9ricas (25%), Cibao (12%), Puerto Plata (3%), and La Romana and others (1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Collado concluded that despite global challenges, Dominican tourism continues its sustained growth, emphasizing, &#8220;It has been a feat to achieve these numbers with the current international situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticias.mitur.gob.do\/ministro-noticias\/republica-dominicana-crece-4-6-en-turismo-aereo-en-septiembre\/\">Ministry of Tourism <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/turismo\/2025\/10\/06\/llegada-de-visitantes-aumenta-26--con-85-millones-a-septiembre\/3268759\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 October 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic has received 8,592,694 visitors in the first nine months of the year (January-September 2025), a clear sign of the tourism sector&#8217;s consistent growth and economic impact, according to a Ministry of Tourism press release. Air traffic in September is up 4.6% compared to September 2024. Speaking at a press conference in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/record-breaking-growth-in-first-nine-months-2025\/\" 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":[339,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242432"}],"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=242432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242505,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242432\/revisions\/242505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}