SANTO DOMINGO. - Hotel occupancy in the first quarter of the year was 84.3%, 4.8% higher than for the same period last year.
The areas with the highest average growth were Boca Chica-Juan Dolio, with 20.9%, and La Romana-Bayahíbe, with 8.6%.
The arrival of passengers by air amounted to 2,334,562.3, of which 86.9% were non-resident foreigners and 12.1% were non-resident Dominicans.
Cruises decrease
In the first quarter of this year, there was an 8.8% decrease in cruise ship arrivals. Only 258 cruise ships docked, according to the Statistical Bulletin of the Macroeconomic and Sectoral Statistics Division of the National Statistics Office.
This drop in cruise ship arrivals, however, did not translate into a decrease in the number of cruise passengers. In the first quarter of 2023, 801,878 passengers arrived in the country, compared to 866,829 in 2024.
