Santo Domingo.– Dominican Republic registered a number of 4,124,543 non-resident air arrivals for 2010, which represents 32,240
more non-resident arrivals than in 2009, for a 3.31% growth.
According to the Central Bank, it is the
first time that the four million-mark has been crossed. In 2009,
non-resident air arrivals totaled 3,992,303. Overall, in 2010, the statistics show 4,586,264 arrivals to airports nationwide,
up 171,508 travelers, or 3.88%.
Travel in December was up 0.75%, despite the cancellation of several flights due to snowstorms. The leading source markets for tourists to the Dominican Republic continue to be the
United States and Canada, with 54%.
Another strong market is South America. There were 67,436 more arrivals
from Argentina (26,052+), Brazil (17,583), Chile (11,234), and Central
America and the Caribbean with 14,801 more visitors compared to 2009.
There
was a decline of 62,066, due to fewer travelers from Spain, Italy,
France and the United Kingdom due to the effects of greater austerity suffered in Europe.
Written by: martin, 29 Jan 2011 11:04 AM
From: United States, boston to S.P.M 23
Shame on u basta jajajajjaja don't be a ass like gmiller and jim h. makin ur self stuped in dis page
Written by: Tu_Papa, 29 Jan 2011 11:34 AM
From: United States, Yonkers, New Yorker... Confident Talker!!!
Basta,
Do you have a link to support your statement of tourism being down 30%? Or was that statistic the population decline in Haiti since 2009? If so, by what I've seen in Santiago, the number is much greater than 30%.
Te Vi!!! LoL
Written by: matador, 29 Jan 2011 11:51 AM
From: United States, www.brugal-ron.com/home.php
Lets hope it will continue receiving visitor, Hope this collera shit won't affected to much as is looking right now, is allover world news.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I have been looking at many sites of newspapers around the world and there is very very little mention ..just one press release from Venezuela . mentioned once several days ago in the BBC. can find nothing in papers from Italy or France ..cannot read or speak Russian .
As long as there are no more aftershocks , for example from the staff who worked at the wedding and also ate lobster , I think this will blow over very soon
From: United States
there must be a monstruous boom in tourism in some parts of the country, to offset the horrific decline in the industry in the Puerto Plata area.
Written by: martin, 29 Jan 2011 12:54 PM
From: United States, boston to S.P.M 23
Hay basta nadie le importa tu mierda ya bete pa tu madre piti
Written by: juanb, 29 Jan 2011 1:04 PM
From: Dominican Republic
High season in Punta Cana/Bavaro is a disaster this year.
This gov't announcement, like so many others, is pure BS.
From: United States
juanb states
High season in Punta Cana/Bavaro is a disaster this year.
if that is the case, then i would like to know where the increase is coming from, because POP has imploded
Written by: martin, 29 Jan 2011 1:18 PM
From: United States, boston to S.P.M 23
No muchas thankz yo no me meto en esos bario del mundo bajo infectin with haitians cheeeee
Written by: danny00, 29 Jan 2011 2:14 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
some friends of mine that had worked in the hotels in punta cana have been out of work for some time now.forget puerto plata its history for now. unless the government steps in and does a make-over of the city, think its a lost cause.
maybe the numbers are true but lots of the tourists that do come and the gov't places add's for are low-rent tourist's.
PUERTO PLATA KILLED IT SELF, IN THE PLAYA DORA COMPLEX THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED THEIR USED TO TELL THE GUESTS "DONT LEAVE THE HOTEL GROUNDS THE CITY OF POP IS A PLACE WHERE THEY WILL YOU OR EVEN KILL YOU" VERY INTELLIGENT FOR THEM TO PLACE FEAR INTO THE TOURISTS, VERY INTELLIGENT. THE REASON THEY DID THIS WAS TO HAVE THE TOURISTS STAY ON THE HOTEL GROUNDS AND SPEND THEIR MONEY AT THE HOTELS.THESE PEOPLE ONLY THOUGHT ABOUT THEM SELFS NOT THE FUTURE AND THESE PEOPLE MIGHT RETURN ONE DAY. NOT VERY SMART WHERE THEY.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Dreadlocks ..I often catch the bus from Calle Duarte to la Romana to teach and I can tell you that there are so many young people going from Puerta Plata to Punta Cana and bavaro to start work there and on the bus back everyone tells me the place is booked solid and I know Bayahibe is doing well .the problem is finding rooms for the staff ....most now stay at Higuey
From: United States
I think that basta is getting a bit confused, basta, the only thing thats going down is the respect that people have for you just like Jimmy, if anyone has respect for you 2 anymore. I don't. I don't know why you 2 don't go to a Haitian website and put your stupid comments there. No appreciates your comments.
Que estupido disque el turismo le esta iendo mal pero k baba Dios mio si lo k mas le esta iendo bien a ya es el turismo! Sera a Haiti k no le esta iendo bien la nacion nativa de basta y jimmy.
From: United States
4 million tourist each paying $10. to enter the DR. Where did the money go? Certanly not for education.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Veronica ..maybe you should drive from Santiago to Bayahibe and Punta Cana and to Bavaro just to see the huge impressive developments and all the tourists and all the action on the golf courses , and around the places outside also though with Ai hotels there is little need to move far .
I drove up north to play some golf recently and I agree that the very beautiful north and north west is like another country and not like the capital and the east .
In Zona Colonial in the capital where I live there has been a constant stream of tourists and Plaza Espana has been very busy at night . So even though you may not belive anything the government says, you can see things are going ok in the east and the capital as far as tourists are concerned
Written by: BASTA, 29 Jan 2011 6:38 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Chris1010,= Truth hurts does it not!
Written by: BASTA, 29 Jan 2011 6:40 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
martin = Oh well I did invite you but I see your just a Puffta
From: United States
I wish I were one of the 4 million :/
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
4 million visitors at $103.00 USD per visitors GET-OFF the FREGAN island fee, DAT gives da Dominican republic $412,000,000.00USD at 8yrs of Leo's watchfull brown eye leaving us $3,296,000,000,.00........... CAN WE HAVE SOMEONE LOOK INTO THIS !!!! I'd be impressed if all details of the disburstment and allocation of the fee's collected to get off this island, that SUMs upto 3.25 of a BILLION USD made public. Just to see how well behaved are government officials are.
Remeber everyone, NUMBERS DON'T LIE, PEOPLE DO!!
This is our cash cow, not yours!!!!!
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 12:36 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Tourism is growing rapidly!
It's a good sign!
Eventually DR will be able to do without cheapskate US tourists spendin ziltch in 2-3 days and depend on tourists from prosperous nations staying 3 weeks or more in paradise.
Brazil, Russia are opening up as maor markets!
The new airbus A380 will make a big difference in the next five years reducing fares and making flying a great experience again.
S.
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 12:43 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Stupid RJ fees pay for the superior airports and air traffic control etc.
Really the fees should be increased to pay for nice high speed trains so the tourists don't have to rent cars.
S.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
(Just in case you are serious ABC and you're not being sarcastic)
Superior Airports!!!!! where in DR, you must be smoking.. 400 million USD a year and we still get hand-me-downs from other countries that are constantly holding our hands across the street like children.
lol, high speed train, in your dreams, ABC.... eF the tourist. Wanna see more than 4million visitors a year, educate the island and we can provide better service and NEW ideas to keep them coming back.
The entire island needs a reassessment.
Written by: juanb, 30 Jan 2011 1:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Once again the little dick is cleverly agreeing with and disseminating more governement BS.
I don't listen to the "kids on the bus". I listen to the hotel management and they are all crying about how bad business is in Punta Cana/Bavaro
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
Routing protocol - A routing protocol is a protocol that specifies how routers communicate with each other, disseminating information that enables them to ...
Yup...
From: United States
let's see, 4,124,543 divided by 365 days in the year, equal, an average of 11,300 visitors per day arriving here, divided by a generous 250 visitors per plane load, means 45 flights arrive each day. I dont think so.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Corruptman ..you should look at the arrivals by ship which carry thousands of passengers , you should look at all the incoming flights at SDQ and at la Romana and at Punta Cana and at Puerta Plata and at the new airport near Nagua .
juanb I doubt if you have ever been to Punta Cana in your life and probably rarely outside Santiago ..but take a trip to Punta Cana one day and note the difference there to your own area..and don"t start that boring untruthful business about diseminating government information ..something original for a change plesae
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Robertjose ...I would rather depart and arrive in SDQ or la Romana or Punta Cana than at any airport in the USA ..in fact if you look at SKYTRAX you will see there are few airports worse than MIA or JFK or LAX ...SDQ is a joy to depart from and to arrive at and I agree with ABC that a train from SDQ to a metro staion along las Americas would be great as indeed woula a train be starting at Puerta Plata and going to Santiago , la Vega and Bonoa , the capital , SDQ , san Pedro , la Romana , Higey and Punta Cana ,,would save many lives on the roads just for a start
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 6:13 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Yes, railways are good. France has common ticketing with airlines.
Russia is building a 554 km rail link from Sirt to Benghazi in Libya.
Railways save much oil.
Russian Railways project to build modern high-speed rail line in Libya from Sirt to Benghazi
On 17 April 2008, an agreement was signed by Libyan Railways and Russian Railways on the construction of a line linking Sirt and Benghazi, after Russian Railways won a tender held by Libya’s national committee for organizing, managing and implementing railway projects, having offered the best project proposal in terms of price-quality ratio.
Under the project, a modern high-speed (up to 250 km/h) railway line with track gauge of 1435 mm will be built between Sirt and Benghazi, running along the Mediterranean coast and linking the main cities of Libya, and in the future becoming part of the international transport corridor of North Africa. In the first stage of the project, the train speed on the line will be up to 160 km/h.
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 6:27 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Russian railways go from strength.
S.
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 6:27 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Russian railways go from strength.
S.
Written by: xwill7, 30 Jan 2011 6:34 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
More flights to POP are needed!
Written by: xwill7, 30 Jan 2011 6:34 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
abc, cheap US tourists??? Last time I was in Bavaro there was more Euro than American!
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 6:48 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Written by: xwill7, 30 Jan 2011 7:05 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Americans are the biggest spenders bro
Written by: abc200, 30 Jan 2011 7:15 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Most don't get enough holidays to spend much!
S.
Written by: curios1, 30 Jan 2011 7:53 PM
From: United States, right where im standin
all in time . travel today is better and safer.compared to 25,or 50, years ago i can fly non stop bos to sdq 3:50 minutes. santo domingo to santiago 3hrs on caribe tour how long was that trip 25 or 50 years ago. ill bet that was an overnight trip at one time. roads railways and runways unfortanatly are built as needed and generaly lag behind the need. i dont think it would be wise to build highspeed transportation and hope there is a need . remember the concord breakfast ny city lunch and shopping in london ny city and home that eavening its nice, duable, but not enough people need it. transportation is not like a ball feild you cant just build it and they will come.
From: United States, Washington, DC
abc200 is a rockhead........... el rey de jibbershit........ What is the pipe saying to u know?.
From: Haiti
Just a question: Could the earthquake that occurred in Haiti have contributed to the rise in "tourism" numbers for the year 2010. Remember, the earthquake occurred in Jan. of 2010 and for months, Haiti's main airport was either inoperable or extremely congested. Many rich Haitians ran to the dr to catch flights to Miami and other US destinations. Many news reporters, Donors, medical groups, etc were forced to use the dr airports as a connecting point.
I pulled this off of Wikipedia Haiti's Earthquake -"Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers and support personnel. Communication systems, air, land, and sea transport facilities, hospitals, and electrical networks had been damaged by the earthquake, which hampered rescue and aid efforts; confusion over who was in charge, air traffic congestion, and problems with prioritisation of flights further complicated early relief work."
Maybe I'm wrong
Written by: curios1, 30 Jan 2011 11:25 PM
From: United States, right where im standin
its possible that could have been some of it
From: United States
As corruptman states....."I don't think so". You need to do the math. 45 full planes every day for 365 days a year?! The numbers have to be inflated. How many seats / passengers of those flights include nationals returning home? That would really affect the numbers - not everyone landing in the D.R. is a tourist. RE: Punta Cana area; Cap Cana is upside down - it is a financial disaster. While the village of Punta Cana is booming, the tourism numbers are questionable - the growh spurt there is by virtue of the Punta Cana owners and new residents. The Punta Cana hotel is not flourishing. Hotels in Bavaro area are all suffering. A wise man once said, "Do not believe your own advertising". Re: building a high-speed train system: You have to be kidding me! Who in their right mind would ride a high-speed train in the D.R. that was driven and maintained by Dominicans? Are you crazy?! That would be suicide. Have you ever tried to drive through Higuey?
Written by: xwill7, 31 Jan 2011 10:46 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
abc200 is living in lala land
Written by: Atabey, 31 Jan 2011 11:30 AM
From: United States, NYC
"Re: building a high-speed train system: You have to be kidding me! Who in their right mind would ride a high-speed train in the D.R. that was driven and maintained by Dominicans? Are you crazy?! That would be suicide. Have you ever tried to drive through Higuey?"
Not sure about the investment portfolio involved, but the south eastern landscape does have a reasonable topography suitable for a high speed rail-system. The Chinese have "stolen" many of the component know-hows from the French and Siemens and will shortly be exporting "their" rail-systems to third world nations. and BTW, modern rail-systems use computers to guide them so human input is kept at a minimum these days. With time, it's not crazy to think a high-speed rail system will play an important part of the national transportation system. Of course, before this takes place, a rail-system connecting Santo Dominigo with Santiago would better serve the nation.
Written by: lovingit, 31 Jan 2011 4:51 PM
From: United States, Delaware
I have been going to Punta Cana for 11 years straight, and this past year, it was more packed that I have ever seen, so I def agree with the numbers.
Experienced similar greater numbers in Ciudad Colonial as well.
CorruptMan gave his numbers on 45 incoming flights a day as something impossible in the country. So you are saying that Santo Domingo, Punta Cana, La Romana, Santiago and Puerto Plata, (not including other airports like in Samana) are not able to at least handle 9 incoming flights alone? You have to be kidding me.
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
Online travel agency sunshine.co.uk asked nearly 3,000 British holidaymakers where they feel most and least safe, based on holidays over the last three years and the Dominican Republic achieved a position as the 10th LEAST safe country following Cuba, Tunisia, Thailand, Egypt, Dubai, Jamaica, Bulgaria, South Africa, and Mexico!
From: United States
when they feel safer in Jamaica , you know that you have a problem.
Written by: lovingit, 9 Feb 2011 4:49 PM
From: United States, Delaware
Adrian29630,
Personally, I think this survey you are talking about is just a lot of BS.
I could see DR scoring less than some of those countries there, but behind Jamaica and Mexico? Unless these Britts have been living under a rock and and simply selecting the country they less know I don't know who in their right mind who score DR behind those Mexico and Jamaica in safety.
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
Perhaps a need to clarify here. The least safe was Mexico followed by the rest of the list with D.R tenth in the ranking. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
From: United States
actually, lovingit, i will agree that Jamaica is a dangerous outback, and the news releases add to the perception. however, FAR more foreigners have met their demise in the DR in the last two years than in Jamaica. that is a fact
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Basta,
Do you have a link to support your statement of tourism being down 30%? Or was that statistic the population decline in Haiti since 2009? If so, by what I've seen in Santiago, the number is much greater than 30%.
Te Vi!!! LoL
As long as there are no more aftershocks , for example from the staff who worked at the wedding and also ate lobster , I think this will blow over very soon
High season in Punta Cana/Bavaro is a disaster this year.
This gov't announcement, like so many others, is pure BS.
High season in Punta Cana/Bavaro is a disaster this year.
if that is the case, then i would like to know where the increase is coming from, because POP has imploded
maybe the numbers are true but lots of the tourists that do come and the gov't places add's for are low-rent tourist's.
PUERTO PLATA KILLED IT SELF, IN THE PLAYA DORA COMPLEX THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED THEIR USED TO TELL THE GUESTS "DONT LEAVE THE HOTEL GROUNDS THE CITY OF POP IS A PLACE WHERE THEY WILL YOU OR EVEN KILL YOU" VERY INTELLIGENT FOR THEM TO PLACE FEAR INTO THE TOURISTS, VERY INTELLIGENT. THE REASON THEY DID THIS WAS TO HAVE THE TOURISTS STAY ON THE HOTEL GROUNDS AND SPEND THEIR MONEY AT THE HOTELS.THESE PEOPLE ONLY THOUGHT ABOUT THEM SELFS NOT THE FUTURE AND THESE PEOPLE MIGHT RETURN ONE DAY. NOT VERY SMART WHERE THEY.
Que estupido disque el turismo le esta iendo mal pero k baba Dios mio si lo k mas le esta iendo bien a ya es el turismo! Sera a Haiti k no le esta iendo bien la nacion nativa de basta y jimmy.
I drove up north to play some golf recently and I agree that the very beautiful north and north west is like another country and not like the capital and the east .
In Zona Colonial in the capital where I live there has been a constant stream of tourists and Plaza Espana has been very busy at night . So even though you may not belive anything the government says, you can see things are going ok in the east and the capital as far as tourists are concerned
Remeber everyone, NUMBERS DON'T LIE, PEOPLE DO!!
This is our cash cow, not yours!!!!!
It's a good sign!
Eventually DR will be able to do without cheapskate US tourists spendin ziltch in 2-3 days and depend on tourists from prosperous nations staying 3 weeks or more in paradise.
Brazil, Russia are opening up as maor markets!
The new airbus A380 will make a big difference in the next five years reducing fares and making flying a great experience again.
S.
Really the fees should be increased to pay for nice high speed trains so the tourists don't have to rent cars.
S.
Superior Airports!!!!! where in DR, you must be smoking.. 400 million USD a year and we still get hand-me-downs from other countries that are constantly holding our hands across the street like children.
lol, high speed train, in your dreams, ABC.... eF the tourist. Wanna see more than 4million visitors a year, educate the island and we can provide better service and NEW ideas to keep them coming back.
The entire island needs a reassessment.
Once again the little dick is cleverly agreeing with and disseminating more governement BS.
I don't listen to the "kids on the bus". I listen to the hotel management and they are all crying about how bad business is in Punta Cana/Bavaro
Yup...
juanb I doubt if you have ever been to Punta Cana in your life and probably rarely outside Santiago ..but take a trip to Punta Cana one day and note the difference there to your own area..and don"t start that boring untruthful business about diseminating government information ..something original for a change plesae
Russia is building a 554 km rail link from Sirt to Benghazi in Libya.
Railways save much oil.
Russian Railways project to build modern high-speed rail line in Libya from Sirt to Benghazi
On 17 April 2008, an agreement was signed by Libyan Railways and Russian Railways on the construction of a line linking Sirt and Benghazi, after Russian Railways won a tender held by Libya’s national committee for organizing, managing and implementing railway projects, having offered the best project proposal in terms of price-quality ratio.
Under the project, a modern high-speed (up to 250 km/h) railway line with track gauge of 1435 mm will be built between Sirt and Benghazi, running along the Mediterranean coast and linking the main cities of Libya, and in the future becoming part of the international transport corridor of North Africa. In the first stage of the project, the train speed on the line will be up to 160 km/h.
S.
S.
They even have their own book!
http://ultimatecheapskate.com/index.cgi
Its called 'The cheapskate next door'
Learn cheapskate secrets!
S.
S.
I pulled this off of Wikipedia Haiti's Earthquake -"Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers and support personnel. Communication systems, air, land, and sea transport facilities, hospitals, and electrical networks had been damaged by the earthquake, which hampered rescue and aid efforts; confusion over who was in charge, air traffic congestion, and problems with prioritisation of flights further complicated early relief work."
Maybe I'm wrong
Not sure about the investment portfolio involved, but the south eastern landscape does have a reasonable topography suitable for a high speed rail-system. The Chinese have "stolen" many of the component know-hows from the French and Siemens and will shortly be exporting "their" rail-systems to third world nations. and BTW, modern rail-systems use computers to guide them so human input is kept at a minimum these days. With time, it's not crazy to think a high-speed rail system will play an important part of the national transportation system. Of course, before this takes place, a rail-system connecting Santo Dominigo with Santiago would better serve the nation.
I have been going to Punta Cana for 11 years straight, and this past year, it was more packed that I have ever seen, so I def agree with the numbers.
Experienced similar greater numbers in Ciudad Colonial as well.
CorruptMan gave his numbers on 45 incoming flights a day as something impossible in the country. So you are saying that Santo Domingo, Punta Cana, La Romana, Santiago and Puerto Plata, (not including other airports like in Samana) are not able to at least handle 9 incoming flights alone? You have to be kidding me.
Personally, I think this survey you are talking about is just a lot of BS.
I could see DR scoring less than some of those countries there, but behind Jamaica and Mexico? Unless these Britts have been living under a rock and and simply selecting the country they less know I don't know who in their right mind who score DR behind those Mexico and Jamaica in safety.