New York, November 8 New York City expects to receive 56.7 million tourists in 2022, which will represent 85% of those who arrived in 2019, the year before the covid-19 pandemic. , it was a historical record.
NYC & Company president Fred Dixon explained Tuesday that in the crucial winter season alone – Thanksgiving and Christmas – a visit of 6.5 million is expected, which will help to place that figure of over 50 million. .
Despite the already winter temperatures, the fourth quarter is traditionally the most powerful for tourism and usually records 30% of total traveler arrivals to the Big Apple.
Dixon advanced his predictions in an act in which he presented the traditional New York Christmas offering: ice skating rinks, Christmas lights in some neighborhoods, the giant fir tree at Rockefeller Center or the ball drop in Times Square that marks the end of the year.
Last Christmas the city already eliminated most of the restrictions related to covid-19, but this meant a spike in infections that was parallel to the days of greatest tourist influx.
This year the last institutes that still required the mask or the vaccination card – theaters in the first place – have stopped doing it and the climate is practically normal throughout the city, with the subway cars – a good thermometer on urban activity – always more crowded.
