The growing tourist demand is one of the reasons that has led Uber to expand its presence in Dominican territory.
There are currently 28,000 driving partners in the Dominican Republic who use the Uber application and 550,000 people have used the app in the last three months.
It is also a tool that mobilizes tourists because it is the same app and system for all countries, as users from 81 countries have used the app in the DR, mainly from the United States, Colombia, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
In that sense, Gabriel Gutiérrez, general manager of Uber for Panama and the Caribbean, said: “that Latin America is the largest region in the use of Uber in relation to the number of trips in the world and with greater growth into the future.”
He explained that the application is nowadays in 19 Latin countries and in more than 200 cities and it has had great growth because in 2015 Uber was in five countries and in 11 cities.
He indicated that in the country the transport application performs services in Santo Domingo, Santiago, San Francisco, San Pedro de Macoris and La Romana.
He stressed that Uber has an important economic and social impact in the countries where it is located, according to statistics of the company of the conductive partners, 20% have Uber as their main source of income, but it is not the only one; 26% is its main and only source of income and 54% is a complement to its main source of income. (https://dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2019/12/07/tourist-demand-powers-expansion-of-uber-in-dominican-republic/)
