Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic is on monitor to welcome a file 11.7 million guests in 2025, reaffirming its place as one of many main vacationer locations within the Caribbean. Tourism Minister David Collado highlighted that the nation continues to attain historic progress regardless of latest storms and air journey disruptions in the USA.

By October, the nation had already acquired greater than 9 million guests, together with 2.1 million cruise passengers, surpassing final 12 months’s whole of 11.19 million vacationers. Collado emphasised that these figures have been reached with out arrivals from Russia and Ukraine, which beforehand accounted for about 500,000 vacationers yearly.

President Luis Abinader introduced that he’ll signify the nation on the Madrid Tourism Truthful (FITUR) in January 2026, the place the Dominican Republic will promote Pedernales as the following main tourism hub—envisioned as a “second Punta Cana.” Abinader additionally famous that 99.1% of holiday makers respect nationwide legal guidelines, whereas the federal government continues its efforts to remove unlawful actions, together with little one exploitation, significantly in areas like Sosúa, guaranteeing tourism stays secure and sustainable.