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According to German Ambassador Karl A. Kohler, German tourism to the DR has fallen from about 500,000 visitors a year in 2000 to only 230,000 visitors now, a situation he attributes to the country's lacks order, cleanliness and security...
The change is indeed noticeable. Few years ago some AI resorts were completely dominated by German tourists, nowadays it is more mixed. Perhaps a new wave of Italian, American and others simply took the place of the reduced German tourists.
Has the DR changed that much in 7 years? Have people suddenly decided to become rude and throw garbage out the window in the last 7 years?
Cocaine/crack was big in the 80/90s. Is the correlation perhaps that the Dominicans from New York are getting out of prison and in the last 7 years they have been deported and are the cause???? I'm not seeing it.
I'm not seeing how a country has become ruder in 7 years. Maybe over 30 years but not 7.
There has to be other reasons why Germans aren't coming. Maybe the economy is not doing that well in Germany and they aren't travelling as much???? I don't know that much about Germany.
Maybe the putas aren't as cheap and "naive" as they used to be???
7 years ago prices were a lot different and resort had a lot more specials to attract more Euro tourist, now days we are becoming a high end destination and attracting more North American tourist.
There has to be other reasons why Germans aren't coming. Maybe the economy is not doing that well in Germany and they aren't travelling as much???? I don't know that much about Germany.
Left feet
The German economy is doing quite well, in fact their currency (Euro) is at historic highs against the USD and they are traveling in great numbers to the USA
I think the Peso is pretty much "dollar based" so I would think the Euro would receive a very favorable exchange and make it cheap for German tourists to visit the DR?
It may be that there have been an increase of higher spending short time visitors that makes the DR less attractive for the longer stay budget minded traveler. A few years ago, many of my coworkers didn't anything about the country now several have visited multiple times. If this has led to resorts catering to these kind of tourist then that may have led to longer stay more budget minded tourist to go elsewhere or to go to destinations closer but equally priced.
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Originally Posted by 2LeftFeet
Has the DR changed that much in 7 years? Have people suddenly decided to become rude and throw garbage out the window in the last 7 years? ....
....There has to be other reasons why Germans aren't coming. Maybe the economy is not doing that well in Germany and they aren't travelling as much???? I don't know that much about Germany.
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German tourism has fallen more than 50%
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