Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Republic is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Caribbean. It is popular both as a cruise destination and for longer visits, and provides a variety of holiday packages designed to appeal to tourists from North America and Europe.
Along with the rest of the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic is set to experience below average tourist industry growth in 2008, as slowing global growth weighs on tourism potential.
However, the country is well-positioned to ride out this temporary slowdown, given its well-established tourist industry and a good balance between high-end tourists and local and backpacker visitors.
Although only 13 Caribbean countries have yet reported figures for Q108, these indicate that performance was mixed in the first quarter. Four countries reported declines in tourist arrivals, with the others displaying a range of growth rate.
Overall, the range was from a decline of 5.7% y-o-y in Montserrat to an impressive growth of 43.9% y-o-y in Curacao. Those countries that experienced declines were Belize, with 0.9%, Bermuda with 4.9%, and Martinique with 2.3%. Those that experienced tourist arrival growth were Antigua and Barbuda (16.8%), the Cayman Islands (9.0%), Cuba (15.7%), the Dominican Republic (5.6%), Jamaica (13.3%), Puerto Rico (0.9%), St Lucia (17.1%) and the US Virgin Islands (9.1%).
It is noticeable that most of those countries experiencing high growth rates were those reporting figures for January to March, rather than just for January to February. This indicates that the region received a significant arrivals boost over the Easter holiday period, which fell in March this year.
From: United States
The remittances may continue, and the Tourist Industry may surpass all previous highs; But, there's a quiet storm brewing; All's not well in Paradise, or in the rest of the world...
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14.
Written by: BASTA, 13 Sep 2008 6:23 AM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
temporary ?
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Dread will be very unhappy to read this positive news report
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 9:13 AM
From: United States
It is interesting how people talk about the inefficiencies of this government and its lack of transparency but are willing to believe these reports.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
those figures come from the airlines ,cruise ships and hotels ....not your transparent government...as they do throughout the Caribbean....they have no interest in inflating their numbers....I know I was in a tourism related business that was throughout the region ....look it up Caribbean Hotel Association.. This year a Dominican is president I believe ........But Arsenio could have a point about the future
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 9:53 AM
From: United States
Quote from the article above: "most of those countries experiencing high growth rates were those reporting figures"
Please point out where in the article it references figures being reported by "those figures come from the airlines ,cruise ships and hotels" as you state?
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 10:00 AM
From: United States
I really do not want to believe that your are so naive as to think this is true "they have no interest in inflating their numbers"
Given the recent history of corporate behavior like ENRON just to mention the most notorious, which by the way "the President you believe" in brought on to the Dominican scene to do such an efficient job with our electrical system.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
josean you get your info from this article..... The figures exist from CHA and the airlines and the cruise ships....Why idiot would they say they were doing better than they are ...so the governments can raise their taxes you dumb@ss....Go back to playing dominos with the Hippo
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
And the airports are still hemorrhaging money .....that means losing money....and you and Hippo want to tax the sale josean?
From: United States
Josean, why are you trying to confuse GC with facts and rational arguments? ride with him. he is here for a good laugh. forget accuracy in reporting, and all that peripheral stuff. GC does not care much about the realities. he lives by his imaginings.
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 10:17 AM
From: United States
Obfusication will get you no where.
That fact is the article states:
"It is noticeable that most of those countries experiencing high growth rates were those reporting figures for January to March, rather than just for January to February."
Nothing about airlines, hotels cruiselines or the tooth fair, I am sorry!
From: United States
yes, Josean, like i said: 'imaginings'? that is GC for you. he just says whatever slips out of his head. and then he offers "that is my story, and i am sticking to it. you can take your facts and stuff them".
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
do you think it is a contest moron to post high numbers like a baseball batting average.?....whats the motivation to lie ?.....National Pride.....think about it .....you just want to be a wet blanket like dread
From: United States
motivations to lie...hmmm...lets see. lets take guys who lie about the performance of a particular stock, in order to get people to buy into it....hmmm...what was the name of that company?...hmmm...ENRON? was that it?
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 10:29 AM
From: United States
I think most of these purple ones suffer from Hipoliphobia.
Whenever anything goes wrong its the bald one's fault. Or it you present a fact the try to discredit it with throwing up his name.
I must be sad to have a black or white only view of the world, but I guess George Bush thinks the same way "your either with us or against us."
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Josean if you and Mr Data and Statistics can show me the REAL numbers please do ....but you are talking from the grassy knoll and Dread is a lefty weanie neocommie and a wonderful human being but that does not change the facts
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 10:45 AM
From: United States
"moron,dumb@ss"
I think people would be better served by posting comments and rebuttals without the use of sophomoric invectives like the ones listed above.
Especially since it says more about the one making the comment than about whom its directed to!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Josean when did you get religion? I repeat Josean if you and Mr Data and Statistics can show me the REAL numbers please do ....but you are talking from the grassy knoll and Dread is a lefty weanie neocommie and a wonderful human being but that does not change the facts
From: United States
Goulet, you are the one who asserts that the figures come from the hotel association, and not from the reporting countries. that having been said, ithink that any onus to provide substantiation resides with you.
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 11:15 AM
From: United States
Doubting business figures doesn't put one in the Grass Knoll contingent or was Eisenhower wrong to warn us about the Military Industrial Complex culture that was accelerating in the late 50's and is rampant today.
Under you view of the world we should accept blindly what government and corporate interest say especially if they (gov. & corp.) are of our preference. If that is the case, then we should shut down DT and all the other news outlets and just read the propaganda put by government and business via press releases.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
dread do you think that the country has some one who counts these things their source also is the airlines and cruise industry and the hotel associations ......Governments are crass and stupid but their figures would have to match .....what josean is trying to say and possibly yourself is that the government is lying ....WHY? would they......
http://www.onecaribbean.org/statistics/tourismstats/From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
again we win the most tourist race is not the point of keeping these stats.....it is not a contest of national pride
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
military indusrial complex ?.....you are way way out there on the knoll
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 11:36 AM
From: United States
So you know more than the Spreme Allied Commander of World War II and 34th President of the United States.
If that puts me in the Grassy Knoll so be it, but I think he knew a little be more about these things than the average person and history has proven him right.
Just ask Dick Cheney and Haliburton!
But don't do it while your hunting with him!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Yeah maybe dick cheney and Halliburton made up the numbers on tourism right
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 11:48 AM
From: United States
From: United States
Goulet has me completely baffled. what else is new?
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 12:15 PM
From: United States
"Yeah maybe dick cheney and Halliburton made up the numbers on tourism right"
No, just on the weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION and Uranium from Niger!
From: United States
Josean, let us not get into all the things those vermin made up. there is not enough broadband to spell it out. if you must, please write it down on paper. we would not want to see a global internet collapse, would we?
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 12:42 PM
From: United States
Dread,
PETA is going to go after you for denegarting VERMIN by comparing them to Dick Cheney and his homies!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
PETA....People for Eating and Tasting of Animals...will you guys stop jerking each other off
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 1:01 PM
From: United States
Dread,
You keep spanking him I got to go make some money off the Lehman Brothers deal!
From: United States
GC, i am shocked! jerking off ?this is a family show!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
missprint joking off
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 2:57 PM
From: United States
From: United States
they will tell you that it does not matter, because the poll is not taken in the USA. but, guess what? there have been news articles critical of the polling methodologies being used by pollsters, which are skewed to give statistacal advantages to mccain-palin. as i said, the media need something to keep the public riveted. i would not be surprised if the gap in the USA looks like it does in the poll you directed us to. if it does not, it simply means Dominicans are smarter than Americans!
Written by: josean, 13 Sep 2008 3:30 PM
From: United States
Well after all we are the oldest society in the Americas!
From: United States
i'll drink to that! and, with age comes wisdom.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
I told you guys to knock it off or go get a room
Written by: BASTA, 13 Sep 2008 4:36 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
i'll drink to that! and, with age comes wisdom. Dementia - arthritis
From: United States
and dont forget Goulet
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Are there still any know nothings that think tourism went down?....is it you wish for it to happen so much you start to believe it ? you guys in the WWW will never stop
From: United States
GC:
I'm being laughing all the way knowing 100% that you are right speaking with facts
but take a deep breath buddy and try to realize that you are debating with something
called the "Haitian envy".
Regardless what you say they don't like because is happening in the beautiful
Quisqueya.
From: United States
actually, Rubirosa, the haitian envy stretches beyond the DR. the Haitians who put out the arrival figures are envious of all the other destinations. they also showed a downturn in just about all the other areas except one or two. man, these Haitian statisticians are some serious haters; they just hate for the fun of it.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Dread cannot stand prosperity he is one of the founders of the WWW
From: United States
Dreadlocks:
Can you state some common sense in your comments, GC states very clear and in a professional way why his facts are 100% unbiased , these statistics come from the same institutions that do business in DR not from the goverment, so why in the heaven they need to inflate these numbers??
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
From: United States
actually Rubirosa, if there is a libreria near you , you might want to purchase a dictionary sometime soon. there is no discuorse here regarding inflated numbers. the gravamen of the topic is that the numbers are DECLINING. so, it would be a question of deflating the numbers, not inflating them. even GC has stopped from trying to defend his "position" and reverted to witticisms. you are on your own , Rubi. tread carefully. a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
did you like angry kid dread?.......also dread the numbers are not declining yet ....and if they do this tourist season it will be because of a lack of lift not people who have the resources to buy those seats ...not yet
From: United States
the only way i can agree with, or disagree with you, is to SEE the numbers. remember me? Mr FACTS AND DATA? i like to see something like "last year 2 million, this year 3 million". then i can analyse things. i do not listen to arguments which say "i think that things are improving, or i think they are getting worse". speculation is a fool's errand.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
NEW: 2008 Latest Tourism Statistics (posted July 25, 2008).........
http://www.onecaribbean.org/statistics/tourismstats/... Dread what more do you want these figures come from the airlines and cruise industry and hotel associations ....why are you looking for a conspiracy with your little buddy josean.....did you like angry kid ? on you tube
Written by: josean, 14 Sep 2008 4:16 PM
From: United States
These are statistics from a "well known kook organization from the lunatic fringe!"
Written by: josean, 14 Sep 2008 4:20 PM
From: United States
Written by: josean, 14 Sep 2008 4:37 PM
From: United States
From: United States
careful, Josean. i like Goulet. i would not like to know that you give him an overdose of facts, then we hear he is in intensive care. so, go eay on the information, please. he is allergic.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Written by: josean, 14 Sep 2008 5:22 PM
From: United States
Your right Dread, I forgot that he never met a fact that he didn't despise!
From: United States
the brother just is not in love with logic and reason.
From: United States Virgin Islands
Hurricane no hurricane, Hispaniola is on my top 5 destinations. Nos vemos muy pronto!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
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They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14.
Please point out where in the article it references figures being reported by "those figures come from the airlines ,cruise ships and hotels" as you state?
Given the recent history of corporate behavior like ENRON just to mention the most notorious, which by the way "the President you believe" in brought on to the Dominican scene to do such an efficient job with our electrical system.
That fact is the article states:
"It is noticeable that most of those countries experiencing high growth rates were those reporting figures for January to March, rather than just for January to February."
Nothing about airlines, hotels cruiselines or the tooth fair, I am sorry!
Whenever anything goes wrong its the bald one's fault. Or it you present a fact the try to discredit it with throwing up his name.
I must be sad to have a black or white only view of the world, but I guess George Bush thinks the same way "your either with us or against us."
I think people would be better served by posting comments and rebuttals without the use of sophomoric invectives like the ones listed above.
Especially since it says more about the one making the comment than about whom its directed to!
Under you view of the world we should accept blindly what government and corporate interest say especially if they (gov. & corp.) are of our preference. If that is the case, then we should shut down DT and all the other news outlets and just read the propaganda put by government and business via press releases.
If that puts me in the Grassy Knoll so be it, but I think he knew a little be more about these things than the average person and history has proven him right.
Just ask Dick Cheney and Haliburton!
But don't do it while your hunting with him!!!!!!!!!!!
http://books.google.com/books?id=....t&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA5,M1
No, just on the weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION and Uranium from Niger!
PETA is going to go after you for denegarting VERMIN by comparing them to Dick Cheney and his homies!
You keep spanking him I got to go make some money off the Lehman Brothers deal!
Looks like the new vermin need help!
http://www3.diariolibre.com/encuestas_result.php?id=907
I'm being laughing all the way knowing 100% that you are right speaking with facts
but take a deep breath buddy and try to realize that you are debating with something
called the "Haitian envy".
Regardless what you say they don't like because is happening in the beautiful
Quisqueya.
Can you state some common sense in your comments, GC states very clear and in a professional way why his facts are 100% unbiased , these statistics come from the same institutions that do business in DR not from the goverment, so why in the heaven they need to inflate these numbers??
"US in 'once-in-a-century' financial crisis"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.....81841.fsmkqu8s&show_article=1
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080914/D936LORG0.html