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11-03-2008, 03:00 PM
According to data from the Central Bank, more than 3.1 million tourists visited the Dominican Republic between January and September this year. Over half (52.1%) of the tourists came from North America, and 37.5% came from Europe. These two markets have become the traditional suppliers of the Dominican tourism industry. According to El Nuevo Diario, the Central Bank emphasized the "significant" increase in tourists coming from countries like Russia, France, Belgium, Scotland and Switzerland, in spite of a "slight" decline in absolute terms in the number of tourists coming from Europe. At the same time, the bank highlighted the fact that this increase in tourist activity was taking place in the middle of the current world economic crisis. Tourism is the main source of hard currency for the DR, followed by remittances and the industrial free zones.
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