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Antigua's municipal plans (PDTM 2025-2029, POT) and tourist flow

Dossier
Tourism, hospitality and residency24-turismo-residencia.md
Domain
Building in Antigua: the heritage rulespatrimonio
Room
Land/tierra
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The Municipal Tourism Development Plan 2025-2029 (Municipality + INGUAT + CityLab) creates a Destination Management Organization and a tourism information system, diversifies towards the outlying villages and sets the 2032 vision of the 'best city to live in, visit and invest in' (mayor Juan Manuel Asturias). The municipal land-use plan (POT) classifies land as urban, expansion, rural or protected; Plaza Pública criticises it for attracting new residents without covering local needs; its approval date and the approving agreement are still to be verified. Antigua's Sustainable Tourism Observatory (INGUAT) recorded 971,930 non-resident visitors and US$277.4 M of estimated foreign-exchange earnings in 2024. Holy Week pressure: 641,704 arrivals in 2025 (19% of the national total of 3,423,890; 149,978 of them foreign), against 1,209,622 (37%) in 2024. The municipality's population was not found in a citable source.

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Figures

Visitantes no residentes AntiguaObservatorio Turismo Sostenible Antigua (INGUAT)
971,930 · US$277.4 M divisas2024
Llegadas Semana Santa AntiguaLa Hora
641,704 (19% nacional; 149,978 extranjeras)Semana Santa 2025
Llegadas Semana Santa AntiguaLa Hora
1,209,622 (37%)Semana Santa 2024

Caveat

the POT's date and approving agreement are still to be verified; Plaza Pública returned 403

Sources

Organizations named in the answer

  • CityLabTechnical partner on Antigua's Municipal Tourism Development Plan 2025-2029 (with the municipality and INGUAT).Other
  • Plaza PúblicaInstitutional critique of OCRET and the State's territorial reserves (opinion column)Other

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