Puerto Plata — The Ámber Cove and Taíno Bay terminals, which operate in the tourist destination of Puerto Plata, received 82.6% of the 2 million, 656,305 cruise passengers who arrived in the country last year.
According to statistics provided by the Ministry of Tourism (Mitur), 994,609 passengers arrived at the Taino Bay port in 2024, 34.8% more than in the previous year, when 203 operations were registered at that terminal.
Meanwhile, at the Amber Cove terminal, owned by Carnival Corporation and located in the district of Maimon, one million 201 thousand 255 passengers arrived, 45.2% more than those recorded in 2023, when 285 operations were recorded.
The report offered by the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, establishes that the set of national terminals receiving cruise arrivals received a total of two million 656 thousand 305 passengers in 2024, 141% more than that registered the previous year when one million 552 thousand 407 cruise passengers arrived.
Other ports favored in this aspect were La Romana, San Souci (Santo Domingo), Isla Catalina, Samaná, and Cabo Rojo-Pedernales.
The Romana terminal registered the arrival of 336,703 cruise passengers, for 12.7%; San Souci, with 24,426, equivalent to 0.9%; Isla Catalina, with 43,760, for 1%.
According to El Hoy, Samaná had 43,926 passengers or 2.4%, and Pedernales had 11,626 cruise passengers or 0.4%.