Tourism in Puerto Rico

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan.

The San Sebastian Gate, home to an annual festival in Old San Juan.

Tourism has been an important money revenue industry for Puerto Rico for a very long time. Because Puerto Rico is host to diverse natural wonders, cultural and historical buildings, concerts and sporting events, the island attracts a wide variety of tourists.

The fact that visitors from the United States do not need a passport to enter Puerto Rico attracts a large number of tourists from the mainland United States each year. Other groups of tourists that visit Puerto Rico in large numbers include Mexicans, Dominicans, Venezuelan, Spaniards, French and Asian tourists.

[edit] Destinations

• Aguadilla: site of old Ramey AFB, now a local airport
• Arecibo: site of the famous Arecibo radar observatory
• Bayamón:, site of Parque de Las Ciencias
• Cabo Rojo: site of beautiful beaches
• Cataño: home of the world's largest rum distillery
• Culebra: an island in itself is home to beautiful solitary beaches
• Fajardo:, home of the Fajardo Lighthouse and its luminicent bay, Las Croabas fishing village, the Paso Fino horse national competition ring and the beautiful seven seas beach
• Humacao: site of the largest and most beautiful resort in the Caribbean - Palmas del Mar Beach Resort ( virtual tour into a luxury vacation villa)
• Mayagüez: home of the animal zoo at the engineering and agriculture University of Puerto Rico satellite campus and the local beer brewer
• Ponce: home of the Ponce Art Museum (Map - a must see oil paintings collection), Castillo de Serralles (a must see), Hacienda Juanita coffee plantation museum and the beautiful originally preserved firehouse in its central plaza
• San Juan: home of Old San Juan, the Puerto Rican Museum of Art, El Morro Castle (a must see) and many more points of great interest
• Trujillo Alto: home of Lake Caraizo Dam
• Rio Grande: home of El Yunque National Rain Forest
• Vieques: an island in itself is home to beautiful beaches, Spanish Castles and beautiful mountains

Flamenco Beach located at the Island of Culebra, one of the highest rated beaches in the world.

[edit] Airports

• Culebra Airport
• Eugenio María de Hostos Airport, Mayagüez
• Humacao Airport
• Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan
• Mercedita Airport Ponce
• Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla
• Vieques Airport

[edit] See also

• Tourism in the United States
• Public holidays in Puerto Rico

This Puerto Rico-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.