More than a million cruise ship passengers
The Dominican Republic is participating in the 26th Annual Florida Caribbean Cruise Association Conference from 21-25 October at the San Juan, Puerto Rico convention center.
Orfila Salazar, in charge of the cruise ship department at the Ministry of Tourism (Mitur), said that the country received more than a million cruise ship tourists from January to September 2019. Mitur statistics indicate that from January to September 2019, cruise ship stops have numbered 347 at Dominican ports for 785,999 passengers and 267,925 crew member arrivals, for an overall 1,053,924 visitors through September 2019. 108,131 more passengers came compared to the cruise totals for January-September 2018. In all of 2018, cruise ship arrivals to the country were 1,357,969 visitors.
Puerto Plata is the leading cruise ship destination (Amber Cove port), with 700,216 arrivals. Next is Casa de Campo La Romana Port with 458,465.
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