NewsWhore
11-26-2009, 05:40 PM
Puerto Plata had long been a major tourism center for the DR, registering 20% yearly growth rates during the 1990s, but the last 8 years have seen sharp declines in the number of tourist arrivals. According to the Central Bank, the last time Puerto Plata saw a spike in the number of arrivals was in 2000 when 786,000 tourists visited. Every year since then has seen sharp annual declines, with a total of 540,000 arrivals in 2008. According to the Dominican Tourism Press Association (Adompretur) quoted in El Caribe, the US$194 million spent on renovating Puerto Plata in the last 8 years have not be enough.
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