holy sunday RD. .- About a million canadian tourists came to Dominican Republic in 2022, a figure that is expected to increase in 2024.

The information was provided by the Consul General of Canada in the country, collin holditchwhich specifies that these tourists regularly make tourism in the tourist areas of the North and the East, more precisely Punta Cana.

“There pandemic obviously had an effect, but every year the number of Canadians visiting the country increases, and now that we’ve come out of the pandemic, We see this increase continuing, so we expect that over the next three years it will exceed one million Canadian tourists per year,” the consul said.

He added that there are hotels with Canadian investments and there are a lot of small businesses, especially in the North.

In the January tourism statistics, presented by the Ministry of Tourismdetails that of the 7,165,387 tourists who arrived in Dominican Republic by air in 2022, 15.87% came from Canada; only surpassed by the United States, which accounted for 32.39%.

In addition, at the beginning of February of this year, the Dominican government signed a new air transport agreement with Canada, a die “Open skywhich will allow the expansion of existing operations between the two states, with the aim of increasing tourism, trade and connectivity.

collin holditchraised the issue after attending a press conference for the world commonwealth dayand in which they pointed out that commercial exchanges between Dominican Republic and the 54 Commonwealth countries in 2022, it is $2,515 million, an increase from 2021 of $239 million, an increase of 10%