El Salvador | Tourism Exponentially Increases with a Forecast to Receive 4 Million International Visitors in 2025

 

El Salvador, the smallest but also the most densely populated state in the Central American region located on the Pacific Ocean coast, highlighted in its territory by 242 volcanoes, 59 bodies of water, 360 rivers and other geographical features such as valleys, mountains, small bays with pleasant, calm beaches, well known to be the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as its legal tender,  alongside the US dollar in 2021 is expected to receive 4 million visitors in 2025 by implementing plans to achieve this goal and nowadays with its tourism showing an exponential increase.

With reference to all that the Minister of Tourism Morena Valdez expressed herself who predicted a foreign currency of $4.368 million. The projection of international visitors in 2024 is around 3.8 million, although calculation the country could exceed it, in 2025, 4 million, in 2026, 4.2 million and the ideal is to reach at least 5.0 million visitors in 2030.

The minister pointed out that the results that El Salvador is achieving in the tourism sector are the  coordinated work and plans both from institutions attached to the Ministry of Tourism, as well as other actions linked to the government and private entities.

The Minister then pointed out that observing with statistical data tourism growth of 15% to 20% each month starting in 2023, an exponential growth, all that after the implementation of the exceptional regime, UN Tourism which placed El Salvador at the top worldwide with the highest number of visitors in terms of growth.

As relevant data between january and october 2024, 3.2 million visitors were recorded, this figure represents an increase of 19% compared to the 2.7 million visitors received in the same period period last year and the months of january, march and July were the ones in which the most visits were recorded. 

Up to 40% of international visitors come from the United States of America followed by Guatemala and Honduras with 25% and 16% respectively.

The Minister explained to the commission that the Ministry's budget for next years is $49.897.214 that is, it is reduced by approximately $2 million compared to 2024, however there is an increase in own income.

Link - https://www.expreso.info/index.php/noticias/internacional/103554_el_salvador_recibira_en_2025_hasta_4_millones_de_visitas

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