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I’m not sure where the original 1,8 M visitors comes from. I’ve seem various media articles pointing to
Bitcoin Archive (as depicted in the image), but I haven’t managed to see where they base their data on.
The government’s Tourism Corporation (tied to El Salvador’s Government) published some statistics on the matter in relation to the first Semester of 2022, in their transparency portal (see the first downloadable document called "
Informe estadístico de turismo primer semestre 2022":
https://www.transparencia.gob.sv/institutions/corsatur/documents/estadisticasThe above image, taken from within the said statistic, depicts the number of visits to the country in 2022 regaining the level reached during the first semester of 2019. In other words, prepandemic figures are more or less back, but one can hardly put a finger down on if and how much bitcoin helped, bearing in mind that the figure on the chart (substantially lower than the 1,8M, though july through to September may be high season) is no big deal in relation to 2019.
Of course, one comparison is current as compared with pre-pandemic tourist levels, but isn't another comparison of similar situated countries to see if the curves look different in El Salvador as compared with other similarly situated countries? Your not mentioning that cross country comparison angle, seem to be implying that the cross country comparison has similar kinds of curves as the El Salvador numbers, so in that regard, you seem to be suggesting that El Salvador does not stand out relative to similarly situated countries.
they are coming for bitcoin tourism and not crypto tourism.
Exactamente!!!
Although, we know that shitcoiners will go down there to try to pump their shit on the coattails of bitcoin.
We also know that bitcoin naysayers will confuse and muddy their assessment of what's going on by talking about "crypto" and who the fuck knows what they mean - especially when they sometimes won't even use the word "bitcoin," so frequently any of us might wonder if we are talking about the same topic or not.
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I’m not sure where the original 1,8 M visitors comes from. I’ve seem various media articles pointing to
Bitcoin Archive (as depicted in the image), but I haven’t managed to see where they base their data on.
The government’s Tourism Corporation (tied to El Salvador’s Government) published some statistics on the matter in relation to the first Semester of 2022, in their transparency portal (see the first downloadable document called "
Informe estadístico de turismo primer semestre 2022":
https://www.transparencia.gob.sv/institutions/corsatur/documents/estadisticasThe above image, taken from within the said statistic, depicts the number of visits to the country in 2022 regaining the level reached during the first semester of 2019. In other words, prepandemic figures are more or less back, but one can hardly put a finger down on if and how much bitcoin helped, bearing in mind that the figure on the chart (substantially lower than the 1,8M, though july through to September may be high season) is no big deal in relation to 2019.
Came across this data from the internet searching for the details about the number of tourists visited El Salvador in the previous years. During the pandemic the number of tourists into the country have decreased. Now with the adoption of bitcoin and various other measures taken to improve the tourism and attract more tourists might've boosted the visitors number reach 1.8million(no data available, but prepandemic close number of tourists have visited El Salvador).
I am not sure about the relevance of your data here KennyR because it seems to largely say the same as DdmrDdmr's data, except that DdmrDdmr's data goes two years further (up to present)... which largely is showing that overall tourism numbers in El Salvador had been on an upward trajectory and then the 2-3 years of the pandemic effect brought them way back down, and so now the overall tourist numbers are at the same place they were around the time that they started to dip.
There might be some truth that overall BTC tourism cannot be measured, even though we are hearing about all the bitcoiners who are supposedly traveling to El Salvador and who would not have otherwise have gone to El Salvador if it had not been for El Salvador's pro-bitcoin laws.
We know that bitcoiners are going there and we know that they are attending bitcoin conferences and events in El Salvador, too.. but we might not be able to know for sure about how much of a blip (or measurement) there is on the data in terms of how many more tourists are ending up in El Salvador that can be attributed to the Bitcoin law and even the fact that there could be some contagion too.. so that the more people who go, then the more it could become a destination that people go to or consider going to when they would not have previously considered it or even would not have gone there.