Santo Domingo.- Most nonresident tourists who visited the country from January to August are women, and 2.9 million arrived during the first fourth months, a 2.3% climb compared with the 2.8 million in the same 2009 period.
Of the total nonresident tourists who came to the country from January to August this year 54.5% are women, mostly young.
According to the profile of nonresident foreign visitors, 64% are young, from 21 to 49, and 91.5 percent cited recreation as their main reason to visit, of which 87.3% booked hotels.
According to Central Bank figures of the nonresident foreigners who arrived in the first 8 months, 54,710 are Americas; 51,639 from South America and 16,858 from Central America and the Caribbean, which offset the 66,993 fewer visitors from Europe.
The United States led the countries with the sharpest increase with 60,706, Argentina with 18,314, Puerto Rico with 14,246, Brazil with 9,939, Chile with 9,014, Peru with 6,515 and Venezuela with 4,175.
According to statistics by the Central Bank and the National Hotels and Tourism Association (Asonahores), the tourism industry created 196,199 direct (56,000) and indirect (140,142) jobs to December 31.
SOURCE: diariolibre.com
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
They here to study the Big Bang?
Written by: Atabey, 22 Sep 2010 9:48 AM
From: United States, NYC
Must be all that sun and mangú on the menu?
Written by: tejada, 22 Sep 2010 10:32 AM
From: United States
They like the Dominican "salchichón" with their "tostón".
Written by: xwill7, 22 Sep 2010 11:21 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Dominican platano is good for them
Written by: JCjua, 22 Sep 2010 11:33 AM
From: United States, New York
I'm sorry, whoever wrote this, can you please clarify what are you trying to say with the statistics?
"The United States led the countries with the sharpest increase with 60,706"
60k what? millions? maybe women? the increase over what?
Can we add a rating scale to the article? I'll give you an "F" and that is for "fail" to communicate.
Written by: Lopez31, 22 Sep 2010 11:52 AM
From: United States
Hay cono! que banquete se tan dando esos sankys.
Written by: DRmaker, 22 Sep 2010 11:58 AM
From: Canada
The chanchos have been let out of the pen, LOL.
Written by: xwill7, 22 Sep 2010 12:09 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
sanky will take good care of them
Written by: telemeco, 22 Sep 2010 12:39 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Monte Plata
www.sankypanky.com...me love you long time
Written by: Belly, 22 Sep 2010 2:37 PM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
JCjua
Can we add a rating scale to the article? I'll give you an "F" and that is for "fail" to communicate.
Can we also add a rating scale for users understanding of statistics so we could give you a "F" and that for failure to understand.
Written by: Belly, 22 Sep 2010 2:39 PM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
They should run more ads in women shows/channels. If they can attract the girls then guys will follow. Maybe that's a good strategy to follow during spring breaks and cold weathers in other areas.
Written by: danny00, 22 Sep 2010 4:14 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
before u get so carried away u ought to go to playa dora and see the what u call women most cant find a guy in their own country and come here pay a few pesos to find some guy thats down on this luck to make love to them...
shit this happens every day of the week.
most of them would not touch with a 10 foot pole.
Written by: Atabey, 22 Sep 2010 5:22 PM
From: United States, NYC
But Danny00,
They are paying for services rendered. Call it an Escort fee, from la playa to the motel. Better the guys do this than get into holdups and theft.
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
@ Danny
I guess the Rent -A-dread crowd that made the 7miles beach in Negril Jamaica so famous have found a new destination of choice.
From: Dominican Republic
WTF????
2.9 miliion women in the first 4 months?
Yet add the totals for the first 8 months for everyone and you come up with 123,207.
"According to Central Bank figures of the nonresident foreigners who arrived in the first 8 months, 54,710 are Americas"
and then...
"The United States led the countries with the sharpest increase with 60,706"
So what is it???
Wholy Einstien Batman...what a flustercluck!
When ever I read anything in this publication to do with numbers it is so blatantly obvious that the education system is a complete failure and those in charge of providing these numbers are no better than the girl using a calculator on a 50 peso purchase...trying to figure out how much change to give me from 100 pesos.
From: United States, NJ
DT :
Where do you put Canada ? do you paired them up with USA or just forgot them.I thought the Canadians were a good customer?
TAR
Written by: Grosero, 23 Sep 2010 8:47 AM
From: United States
they pay for sex just like the gringo
Written by: lovingit, 23 Sep 2010 1:01 PM
From: United States, Delaware
I agree with PuntaCanaMike.. the numbers don't add up, or they are not explained in the order they should
Written by: DRmaker, 23 Sep 2010 1:18 PM
From: Canada
"they pay for sex just like the gringo"
A lot of people on this post are getting their laughs from this topic.
But seriously, these so-called sankies (and the working girls too) are bringing in lots of money from off-shore through selling their services to foreigners. All this money is earned in the Dominican Republic underground economy and is not taxed. This helps these "service providers" supplement their income (or non-income) - especially for the working girls, of whom many have children and have been left to support them on their own.
Probably, hundreds of millions of off-shore dollars are earned in this manner every year in the D.R, and it all goes straight into the hands of the people who earned it (and not into some politicians greasy palms).
Who can blame them for earning money in this way.
From: United States
Those figures don't mean crap. It is just a matter of interpretation. It needs to be studied and analyzed and then and only then can be come up with a actual verifiable conclusion.
Written by: DRmaker, 23 Sep 2010 9:42 PM
From: Canada
Danny00
"see the what u call women"
"most of them would not touch with a 10 foot pole"
Are you saying that the sanks like to go for the skanks?
From: United States
Some of you raise hell when they say that Haitians are entering the country illegally to harvest fruits and vegetables and to cut sugar canes,you also raise hell when they say that foreign women tourists are visiting the country.
You throw tantrums for the bad news and you throw tantrums for the good news.
Make up your damn minds. Do you love the country or not ?
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"The United States led the countries with the sharpest increase with 60,706"
60k what? millions? maybe women? the increase over what?
Can we add a rating scale to the article? I'll give you an "F" and that is for "fail" to communicate.
Can we add a rating scale to the article? I'll give you an "F" and that is for "fail" to communicate.
Can we also add a rating scale for users understanding of statistics so we could give you a "F" and that for failure to understand.
shit this happens every day of the week.
most of them would not touch with a 10 foot pole.
They are paying for services rendered. Call it an Escort fee, from la playa to the motel. Better the guys do this than get into holdups and theft.
I guess the Rent -A-dread crowd that made the 7miles beach in Negril Jamaica so famous have found a new destination of choice.
2.9 miliion women in the first 4 months?
Yet add the totals for the first 8 months for everyone and you come up with 123,207.
"According to Central Bank figures of the nonresident foreigners who arrived in the first 8 months, 54,710 are Americas"
and then...
"The United States led the countries with the sharpest increase with 60,706"
So what is it???
Wholy Einstien Batman...what a flustercluck!
When ever I read anything in this publication to do with numbers it is so blatantly obvious that the education system is a complete failure and those in charge of providing these numbers are no better than the girl using a calculator on a 50 peso purchase...trying to figure out how much change to give me from 100 pesos.
Where do you put Canada ? do you paired them up with USA or just forgot them.I thought the Canadians were a good customer?
TAR
A lot of people on this post are getting their laughs from this topic.
But seriously, these so-called sankies (and the working girls too) are bringing in lots of money from off-shore through selling their services to foreigners. All this money is earned in the Dominican Republic underground economy and is not taxed. This helps these "service providers" supplement their income (or non-income) - especially for the working girls, of whom many have children and have been left to support them on their own.
Probably, hundreds of millions of off-shore dollars are earned in this manner every year in the D.R, and it all goes straight into the hands of the people who earned it (and not into some politicians greasy palms).
Who can blame them for earning money in this way.
"see the what u call women"
"most of them would not touch with a 10 foot pole"
Are you saying that the sanks like to go for the skanks?
You throw tantrums for the bad news and you throw tantrums for the good news.
Make up your damn minds. Do you love the country or not ?