Monday, 10 April 2023 20:07

El Salvador received more than 399 thousand visitors during Easter Week vacations

Written by Evelyn Alas

According to the Instituto Salvadoreño de Turismo (ISTU), thousands of national and foreign tourists crowded the recreational parks, the historic center of San Salvador and the different beaches of the country.

Data shared by the Cabinet of Tourism, since the beginning of the vacation period until the first hours of Saturday of Glory, the different recreational parks of the ISTU received more than 399 thousand visits.

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Likewise, it was confirmed that, during the same period, the most visited site was the recovered historic center of San Salvador, which reached the amount of 280 thousand visitors between foreign and national tourists.

In third place, the different beaches attracted the presence of more than 231 thousand vacationers, including nationals and visitors from Guatemala, the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and Canada, as well as from other countries around the world.

Instituto Salvadoreño de Turismo

Cultural sites and spaces, such as archeological vestiges, occupied the fourth position in number of visitors, with a total of 37 thousand; while protected natural areas reached the number of 5,000.

These are definitely the sites that, as of this Easter Week, form the Top 3 with the highest number of visits from both nationals and foreigners, which shows the boom that tourism is having, through the Plan Control Territorial and the exception regime.

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The institution affirms that now El Salvador has become the safest country in Latin America, after being among the most violent in the world, after which tourism surpassed the figures of the pre-pandemic year, and continues to position itself as a world class tourist destination.

 

Translated by: A.M