Puerto Rico sees a recovery in tourism after hurricane damages

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Tourism activity in Puerto Rico area is slowly coming back to life after being damaged severely by Hurricane Maria.

 
Of the 146 hotels certified by Puerto Rico Tourism Co., the government-owned corporation in charge of the country’s tourism, 130 were open and operating as of April 30.

 
Recovery is gradually under way: More than 200,000 cruise-ship homeport passengers have embarked from San Juan since October 2017, and more than 100 flights go in and out of the city’s airport each day, as per latest data. However, many hotels are still undergoing the recovery process.

 
For at least the past two decades, tourism has not been a large part of the island’s economy, but now, all efforts are underway to boost tourism.

 
Puerto Rico benefits from being a part of the United States, and its location is advantageous for air travelers to the Caribbean. It has good hotels and facilities. The island also boasts of a wide variety of environments that visitors can experience, ranging from typical tourist beaches to a tropical rainforest, rolling mountainous regions and world-renowned surfing capitals, such as Rincón on the western coast.

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