By: Staff Writer
November 19, 2021
A leading international travel data firm said that El Salvador is the top destination for US travellers this Thanksgiving.
Forward Keys said a whopping 51 percent more US travellers are set to travel to El Salvador this Thanksgiving, making the Central America destination the top best performing global destination for US arrivals during Thanksgiving, followed by the US Virgin Islands, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. The lure of the azure sea, peace, and tranquillity is too hard to pass up.
“The image of El Salvador as a tourist destination has improved since President Nayib Bukele took the leadership, and the good management of the pandemic through correct measures and accelerated vaccination. In addition, with the implementation of the Surf City strategy, we highlight our world-class waves and we have become the first country to use bitcoin as a legal currency,” says Morena Valdez, Minister of Tourism of El Salvador.
Valdez added, “We will continue working with all key players to continue positioning El Salvador as an attractive and safe destination to visit, invest in and live in.”
Most of the travel from the United States to El Salvador is leisure (85 percent), with a slight increase in group travel (from 4.8 percent to 6 percent). The average length of stay is 15 days, and the average number of passengers per booking is 3 passengers – could this be small families?
International travel out of the US is just down by 20 percent this Thanksgiving and the fact that Portugal made the top 10 most resilient list, demonstrates that US travellers are starting to feel more confident about long-haul travel again. Something that will be music to the ears of many destinations reliant on the US travel market for its economy.