The entry of tourists to Ecuador grew in 2025

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We analyze the statistics of tourist entry a Ecuador during 2025, a period marked by significant challenges in air connectivity and a slight recovery of airlines operating in the country.

The 2025 It was seen as a year of stability in terms of aeronautical matters for the country. In addition to security challenges, The tourism sector saw a recovery in the supply of flights to and from our airports, allowing something to recover the numbers, but still far from what have been the best years for aviation and tourism in Ecuador.

Although no new routes were opened as such, Airlines operating in the market increased supply to and from Panama, Miami, New York, Houston, Atlanta and Madrid, plus the return of Spirit and JetBlue, they gave a truce to the market that 2024 presented a huge loss of capacity, airlines and routes never seen before.

Tourist entry 2025

With this various positive news the 2025 showed stability in the air market and even presented a slight increase in tourist arrivals last year, although still below 2023 as the best post-pandemic year and even further from 2019 where they visited us more than 2 millions of foreigners.

Official statistics, published on the portal of the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador, reflect a panorama of low optimism. It should be remembered that these data include Ecuadorian citizens with dual nationality or residence abroad who enter the country.

During the 2025, A total of 1.372.751 tourists (considering income by land, fluvial, sea ​​and air). This represents a growth of +8,72% compared to the 2024, year in which they were registered 1.262.664 visitors. This difference of 110.087 more travelers directly impacted the tourism value chain, hotel occupancy and restaurant dynamism, transportation and other services.

Next, the behavior of monthly income is detailed (rotate the screen if you visit from a cell phone):

Within the annual consolidated 2025, The flow of visitors was distributed as follows according to the method of arrival, highlighting the predominance of the air route as the main entry channel to the country:

• Airway: 1.140.983 income
• land route: 209.289 income
• Sea: 21.558 income
• waterway: 921 income

When looking specifically at air revenue, a marked concentration is observed at the main airports, although activity is recorded in secondary terminals:

• Quito (Mariscal Sucre Airport): 676.463 income (main port of entry)
• Guayaquil (Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport): 450.363 income
• Manta: 14.054 income
• Esmeraldas: 60 income

Year-on-year behavior

With the aim of measuring the impact of the figures recorded in 2025 and understand the trend of the tourism sector over time, It is essential to review the historical evolution of income to the country during recent years:

As we can see, there is a recovery versus the 2024, but we are still far from the numbers 2019 for a little less than 1 million annual visitors.

The countries that visited Ecuador the most in 2025

Regarding the origin of visitors, USA once again consolidates itself as the main issuing market for Ecuador, recording a total of 515.565 tourists during 2025 versus the 482.602 from 2024. Almost 4 decade 10 Tourists who come to the country come from USA, which makes it the most critical market for the stability of the sector.

Colombia and Peru continue to be fundamental strategic partners in the region, occupying second and fourth place respectively. Spain leads arrivals from the European continent, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.

It should be noted that the vast majority of the main markets grew in 2025.

We will see how it evolves 2026, with the airlines that returned and the reinforcement of connectivity that the airlines already operating have carried out in the country.

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