The Dominican Republic leads the list of the most visited global destinations in 2022. This was announced by the travel data collection firm ForwardKeys, in its annual report entitled “The most visited destinations of 2022”.
According to the document, issued in mid-November by the firm, the global destinations with the best performance this year, due to the large number of tourist arrivals, were located in Central America and the Caribbean, remaining eThe country in the first position of the 2022 recovery graph.
ForwardKeys stated thatThe Dominican Republic experienced a 5% growth in the arrival of tourists, helped by a 13% increase in seating capacity, compared to 2019.
The brochure details that between January 1 and October 18, the latest data available on air ticket issuance, the country received 5% more visitors than in 2019, followed by Turkey, Costa Rica and Mexico, which received the same number of visitors.
They explain that driven by pent-up demand from US travelers, sun and beach destinations were the preferred option and achieved the highest level of recovery, with a drop of only 15% in the second half of the year compared to the same period. of 2019.
In line with this trend, The countries with the best performance were those with a world-class sun and sand offer, namely, Caribbean and Central American countries such as the Dominican Republic (+5%), Aruba (+3%), Costa Rica (0%) and Mexico (0%)”, they point out.
In this sense, the city of Punta Cana (+12%) was among the main destination cities with the best performance, “testimony of the success of open door policies and the demand for sun and sand,” the report underlines.
ForwardKeys analysts stated that the strong representation of the destinations in Central America and the Caribbean at the top of the list reflect the relative strength of the US source market and the approach taken by many highly tourism-dependent countries in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, which, during the pandemic, imposed Covid-19 travel restrictions. less severe than elsewhere.
They highlighted that by doing so they maintained their visitor savings and as the year has progressed, they have consolidated their leadership position and have begun to exceed pre-pandemic volumes.
“The sustained success of these regions is largely due to the open door travel policy that many of their destinies adopted at the beginning of the last century”, they emphasized.
