Saturday, 08 April 2023 16:13

El Salvador received 35 thousand visitors during the first three days of Easter Week

Written by Evelyn Alas

There has been a great affluence of tourists, especially foreigners, according to figures from the Tourism Cabinet.

The Minister of Tourism, Morena Valdez, explained that as a Government they are surprised by the amount of foreign tourists that are visiting the country and its different tourist attractions.

"We have not started the vacation in full, but only on april 3, because we were closing international visitors, we had 35,000", said Valdez. The projection for this Easter vacation is 78,000 international visitors, he clarified.

According to the minister, the main nationalities of the tourists that have arrived to the country during this vacation are: Guatemala 13,000 visitors, United States 10,000 and Honduras 6,000.

This is how the tourism sector reports a full house for this Easter vacation, the same amount that could continue for the following week as the diaspora has booked quotas and stays in hotels and restaurants in the chain nationwide.

"As for our visitors to all our tourist, cultural and natural sites, we are also accelerating, until yesterday we had closed with 317,168 in national parks and beaches", Valdez said.

Of these 317,168 visitors, according to the minister, 168,000 have been in public tourist sites, 126,000 people in public beaches, 21,000 in public cultural sites and 2,000 natural protected areas.

The top five most visited is the Tourist Complex of the port of La Libertad, Sunset Park, El Cuco beach, Balboa and El Espino beach; as well as, the Historic Center of San Salvador is also among the main tourist attractions.

The call to tourists, both national and foreign, is to know, in detail, the different activities available for this Easter Week in the tourist sites, cultural and natural protected areas in elsalvador.travel.

 

Translated by: A.M