The Legend of Foreign Tourists to the Dominican Republic graduated 72.56% in January with respect to the same month of the past year, which exacerbates the first negative date through three consecutive months of recovery in the back of the closed frontier decreed by the pandemic.
El Banco Sentraal informs that 130,093 foreign tourists travel to the country in the first half of this year, with a total of 55,837 less than in December, which is the best since the beginning of the pandemic.
Debt to the Pandemic the Tourist Board of the Dominican Republic retransmitted figures to 1996 as a consequence of the fact that the country will close its fronts between March and June and it will have to recover passengers at a very slow pace.
By the year 2021, it will also reduce by 9.5% the number of Dominican residents living abroad, up from 75,218, according to Central Bank information on the tourism sector, the most important in the Caribbean economy.
In the document, the Central Bank states that the preventive measures adopted by the tourist emissary countries to avoid the propagation of the covid-19 has negatively impacted the tourist flow of the country.
Since January 26, the United States, the main tourist destination in the Dominican Republic, has been demanding a coronavirus negative test to enter this country.
Additionally, Canada, the second largest tourist destination in the Dominican Republic, has canceled all flights in the Caribbean until April 30 this year.
In order to attract tourist tourists, the Dominican Governor has announced that it will cost the covid-19 trials that require the authorities of these countries.
In parallel, there has also been a plan to incentivize local tourism, which involves discounts and funding facilities.