SANTO DOMINGO.- February is the month of 2023 that has registered the highest hotel occupancy in the country, in the January-June period, marking 80.4%, according to statistics registered by SITUR, the Tourism Intelligence System, a platform that offers information on the trends, structure and perspectives of the tourism sector and its value chain in the Dominican Republic.
March follows as the second month in which Dominican hotels received the majority of visitors, with 76.7%, in January the arrival of guests reached 76.6%, while in April an occupancy of 76.1% was achieved.
SITUR, a tool of the Ministry of Tourism (MITUR), reports that May was the month in which visitors to hotel establishments registered the lowest occupancy, during the first half of the current year, reaching 68.4%; in June the average was around 71.3%.
June figures
Last June, the average occupancy rate in Dominican hotel rooms reached 71.3%, according to the SITUR platform report, which indicated that Bayahibe-Romana was the tourist destination that received the most visitors with an 85.1% occupancy rate.
Punta Cana, the most popular and international tourist destination, was the second most popular, accounting for 79% of visitors.
In Greater Santo Domingo, 62.6% of the people who visited the country and used hotels as accommodation stayed; Santiago de los Caballeros received 59%, Samaná 57.6%, Boca Chica-Juan Dolio 48%, the Bride of the Atlantic (Puerto Plata) 46% and Sosúa-Cabarete 38.6%.
According to SITUR statistics, 86.6% of occupancies corresponded to foreign visitors.
