Although the U.S. State Department still maintains its Level 2 warning for the island, over 2 million travelers visited the DR in the first quarter of 2023.

The Dominican Republic also received 206,704 cruise passengers in July of this year, 39 percent more than June, 95 percent above July 2022, and 148 percent over pre-pandemic July 2019, Callado said.

In July, 811,192 tourists arrived in the country by air, two percent more than in the same month in 2023, 10 percent more than in 2022, and 37 percent above 2019, said David Callado, the Dominican ...