{"id":2955,"date":"2019-07-05T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.forwardkeys.com\/dominican-republic-bookings-begin-to-bounce-back\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T11:30:39","slug":"dominican-republic-bookings-begin-to-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forwardkeys.com\/es\/dominican-republic-bookings-begin-to-bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic bookings begin to bounce back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-34 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:90px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:3.5%;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#f9f9f9;border-style:solid;\" >\n<div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\">\n<div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-66 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:74%; margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 10% 0px 0px;\">\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-34\">\n<p>A report by ForwardKeys, which analyses over 17 million flight bookings a day, shows that the slump in bookings and jump in cancellations of flights to the Dominican Republic, which coincided with a number of tourist deaths there, at the end of May and early June, appears to be reversing.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0June to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0July, bookings for July and August from the USA to the Dominican Republic fell by 84.4% compared to the equivalent period in 2018. However, daily data reveals that bookings bottomed on June 19<sup>th<\/sup>, two days after the death of Vittorio Caruso and they exceeded cancellations again on June 26<sup>th<\/sup>. In the two months prior to the deaths on 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May of Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day, bookings had been up 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/forwardkeys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190625-USA-tourists-deaths-update-04-07-19-1.2-1024x525-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The decline in bookings to the Dominican Republic was offset by a surge in bookings for other Caribbean destinations, most notably Jamaica, Bahamas and Aruba. However, with the recovery in bookings for Dominican Republic, the surge of interest in those islands has slowed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10015 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/forwardkeys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190625-USA-tourists-deaths-update-04-07-19-2.2-1024x307-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olivier Ponti, VP Insights, ForwardKeys, said: \u201cThe deaths of US citizens which occurred around the end of May and early June triggered an avalanche of media interest and speculation. That kind of attention was bound to put some holidaymakers off and indeed that is what we saw. I am greatly relieved for the Dominican Republic that the crisis in confidence appears to be abating and I am hopeful that it will be relatively short lived, particularly if there are no more deaths and if the current FBI investigation establishes a clear cause of death in each case and none of the causes was sinister.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:60px;width:100%;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\">\n<style>.fusion-button.button-34 .fusion-button-text,.fusion-button.button-34 i{color:#ffffff;}.fusion-button.button-34{border-color:#e96729;border-radius:8px 8px 8px 8px;background:#e96729;}.fusion-button.button-34:hover .fusion-button-text,.fusion-button.button-34:hover i,.fusion-button.button-34:focus .fusion-button-text,.fusion-button.button-34:focus i,.fusion-button.button-34:active 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