Tourism in Colombia continues its path of recovery. In the first five months of this year, about 2.25 million non-residents visited the country, a figure that is 36.7 percent higher than a year ago and 20 percent more when compared to the data from 2019, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.
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The figure for the first five months of the year includes 1,602,121 non-resident foreigners; 416,005 are Colombians residing abroad who visited the country and 231,285 cruise passengers.
Calculations by the Directorate of Sectoral Analysis and Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, based on figures from Migración Colombia, show that Only May the country had the arrival of 375,409 non-resident visitors, data that exceeds the results of the same month of 2022, 2021 and 2019.
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The figures for May confirm a growth of 10.4 percent compared to the same period in 2022, when 340,060 visitors were recorded, and reflects the growing popularity of Colombia as a global tourist destination, the ministry excludes.
The United States continues to be the country with the highest number of visitors to Colombia: In the period January to May, a total of 414,893 travelers from that country arrived, followed by Ecuador with 115,432 and Mexico with 112,769.
Arturo Bravo, Vice Minister of Tourism, assured that “the results leave us very optimistic and generate a strong commitment to continue working to offer exceptional and safe experiences to our visitors, in harmony with life.”
With respect to the results of May 2019, the reference year for the recovery of tourism, the growth is 15 percent, since in that month 326,344 visitors were recorded.
