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According to industry specialist firm Forward Keys, El Salvador was the most visited destination in Latin America during the first quarter of 2022.  This is measured by flights: both bookings and those that have already been made.

The Ministerio de Turismo (MITUR), affirms that thanks to the Surf City El Salvador ISA World Junior Surfing Championship 2022 event along with the next WSL Championship Tour event to be held (June 12-20), and the reception of tourists in the country, they project to obtain US$8 million in income.

El Ministerio de Turismo  (MITUR), informed that it expects more than US$6 million will be mobilized in the tourism sector in the department of La Libertad from may 27 to thursday, june 5, dates in which La Bocana and El Zunzal will become the scenarios of the Surf City El Salvador ISA World Junior Surfing Championship 2022.

The minister of Tourism, Morena Valdez, said in a morning interview that they expect US$161 million in foreign currency to enter the country during the Holy Week vacation period.

The Tourism Cabinet integrated by the Ministerio de Turismo (MITUR) and the Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma (CEPA), announced the opening of the Holy Week vacation season projecting that more than 35 thousand people will enter the country through Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador "San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez".

The Ministerio de Turismo (MITUR) estimates an arrival of 1.7 million international visitors, which represents US$1.7 billion in foreign exchange earnings. As for domestic tourism, 9.1 million domestic visitors are expected, generating more than US$300 million in income.

The minister of Tourism informed that, according to projected statistics, 1.3 million visitors will be received by the end of 2021, which exceeds the goal of 1.2 million estimated at the beginning of the year. "This is thanks to the good management of the pandemic and the country's positioning due to the international surfing tournaments we have had", the official said.

The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR), indicated that compared to 2019, this 2021 the percentage of tourists traveling to El Salvador from the U.S. for the Thanksgiving holiday, is 51% more, data that was provided by ForwardKeys, a company that provides information to tourism organizations interested in knowing who travels where, when and for how long.

The minister of Tourism, Morena Valdez, indicated that the projection to december 2021 was US$800 million in foreign exchange; however, as of september 2021, US$1,126.1 million had already been achieved; meanwhile, visitors, between january and september, reached 888,742.

Surf City, one of the projects in El Salvador to promote domestic tourism and attract foreign tourists, has been positioned due to the recent business meeting held with salvadoran and costa rican businessmen in Costa Rica.