This was the entry of tourists to Ecuador during the 2024

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We review the statistics of what was the income of tourists al Ecuador during the 2024, a year with fewer airlines and connectivity to the country.

The 2024 It was a particularly complex year for Ecuador, not only because of the safety factor and power outages, but also due to a notable drop in the supply of airlines operating to and from our airports.

With fewer routes and airlines that closed their operations in the country such as Aeromexico, Wingo, Viva Aerobus and Conviasa, and others that closed routes such as JetBlue O JetSMART, presents a complex landscape for travelers' options, Therefore, reviewing the behavior of tourist arrivals is important..

Arrival of tourists to Ecuador during 2024

The statistics have finally been published today 9 of January of 2025 on the portal of the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador and the data is not positive, yes there is a drop in year-on-year growth, that compared to other countries in the region, solo Ecuador fell.

Let us remember that these data do not discriminate if they are Ecuadorians who enter with dual nationality or residence from another country..

During the 2024 A total of 1.262.664 tourists, this taking income by land, fluvial, sea ​​and air, which represents a drop in the 12.1% Compared to him 2023 where they arrived 1.426.514 visitors, a difference of 163,850 any less travelers occupying hotels, taxis, restaurants and different tourist services.

Monthly income behaved as follows:

From these annual data, Income according to travel method is divided as follows:

• Airway: 1.051.233
• Fluvial: 915
• Maritime: 15.553
• Land: 194.963

If we concentrate on air, of these tourists 338 They entered through Esmeraldas, 11.576 They entered through Manta, 611.739 through Quito and 427.414 by Guayaquil.

Year-on-year behavior

To have a better context, Let's now review the annual income data to the country:

As we can see, the figures of the 2024 They even take us to data lower than 2022 that it was a year of transition between the pandemic and the expected return to normality, so the challenge of recovering the tourist movement, first of 2023 and second of the period 2018-2019, they are huge.

The countries that visited Ecuador the most in 2024

Regarding income by country, USA continues to maintain its position as the main source of visitors to Ecuador with 482.602 visitors during the 2024, followed by Colombia, Spain, Peru and Canada.

If we compare with the 2023, a total of 28.178 fewer tourists since USA They visited the country, 34.275 fewer Colombians and 5.192 fewer Spaniards and so on, The vast majority of the main issuing countries showed a decrease in visitors at the same time. Ecuador.

Let's hope for better performance and arrival of tourists this 2025, to prevent more airlines from leaving the country and the panorama of the tourism industry from continuing to complicate within a difficult country context.

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