Dominican Republic receives by 2020 four million less tourists from the pandemic

As far as the tourism sector is concerned, it will recover in July 2020 from the effects provoked by the coronavirus pandemic, the number of tourists in Alcanzo in addition to the growing tendency of the Venice industry to exhibit its chemical effects.

According to Central Bank statistics, for the year 2020 The number of visitors does not include residents in the country of 2,405,315 tourists, an interannual variation of -62.7%, of the 1,699,194 couples are foreigners and 706,121 Dominicans are non-residents.

Prohibition of probes, in the year 2019, the Dominican nation will have 6,446,036 passengers no residents, which in these entities represents 17% of all visitors to the Caribbean and Central America, positioning the country as leader in this region.

Debt to national frontiers by air, but will close between March and June 2020, as mediated to promote COVID-19 propaganda, the interannual flow of travelers in the second quarter of 2020 was zero (-100.0%).

Thanks to the return of the airports in July 2020, agreed with the Central Bank, tourism is recovering and a show of it is only in the period July-December will receive 1 011 224 tourists.

“In order to have an idea of ​​the magnitude of the most experimented at the moment, if we look at the figures for the months of December 2020, the number of visitors to residents (foreigners and Dominicans) includes 348,464 tourists, representing a 55.8% of the total number of visitors to residents arriving in the country in the month of December 2019, ”a Central Bank source said in a statement to the media on the arrival of these juveniles.

The financial entity adds that this constitutes a significant advance, that in July 2020 will reach 135,163 visitors, with a proportion of 22.9% respect for the month of 2019.

Recovery plan

This majority, in agreement with the Central Bank, is exhibited thanks to Tourism Recovery Plan that is the impetus of the Dominican Gobierno in conjunction with the private sector, the medium that mediates the promotion of the country as a safe holiday destination and to promote the Marca País.

The Gobierno pushes to implement the package of economic incentives for the sector that includes a RD $ 420 million diversion program, the temporary elimination of the early payment for six months and the payment of taxes on assets until June 2021, as well as the reduction of the Rate of Accurate Anticipated Rate to a 35% between September and November 2020.

The plan also exemplifies international security sanitation protocols to be followed by tourist companies and travelers entering the country, basic health insurance in the event of coronavirus being affected during its stage, among others.

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