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Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Tourism in the Dominican Republic accounts for 16% of the country’s gross domestic product. A total of 45.2 million visitors entered the country in the five year period between 2012 and 2019. Some of the most popular touristic destinations in the Dominican Republic include the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as the beaches of Punta Cana and Samana. Tilman Freitag has argued that while the tourism industry generates significant contributions to the country’s economy, it also lead to the marginalization of impoverished Dominicans living in touristic destinations who have been displaced in order to accommodate the development of beach resorts.