Dominican Republic Tourism Keeps Surging, Topping 9 Million Total Visitors
The Dominican Republic’s record-breaking tourism pace continued last month, with the Caribbean’s most popular tourism destination topping 9 million visitors so far this year.
Through the end of October, the country recorded 9.082 million visitors, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year — and a 47 percent jump compared to the first 10 months of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic.
That included a strong showing in the cruise sector, which is now nearing 2.1 million passenger arrivals in 2024.
It’s been an “extraordinary” total for the country, according to Dominican Republic Tourism Minister David Collado.
October saw 554,169 stayover arrivals, itself a 4 percent jump from the same month last year.
The country is projecting a total of 12 million visitors by the end of this year, a goal that once seemed, well, ambitious, but now seems very feasible indeed.
Caitlin Sullivan began her career with Caribbean Journal as Arts and Culture editor before shifting to travel full time. She writes frequently on the Caribbean cruise industry, flight networks and broader travel news. Her most frequent Caribbean destination? Nassau.
