Bogotá received 1,913,648 international visitors in 2025 — up 2.6%, and 38.5% of all foreign arrivals to Colombia — as the country logged a record 10.2 million international movements and tourism receipts that now out-earn coffee and coal combined.
Every Colombian tourism statistic passes through Bogotá first: the capital takes nearly two in five of the country's foreign arrivals, most clearing immigration at El Dorado — and increasingly staying. Where the classic itinerary used to be a connection to Cartagena or the coffee triangle, Bogotá now holds visitors for the Gold Museum, Monserrate, La Candelaria and a restaurant scene crowned by Leo in The World's 50 Best.
The market mix is continental: the United States supplies one visitor in four, Venezuela 13% on family and business ties, Mexico 8%, Ecuador and Peru the Andean layer, Spain the leading European market. Colombia crossed 10.2 million international movements in 2025 — up 6%, third in Latin America — with leisure at 73% of bookings and a digital-nomad visa adding long stays.
The honest footnote: 2026 has been softer on arrivals — foreign entries ran about 4% below the prior year in the first seven months — even as tourism receipts kept climbing, a pattern the industry attributes to a peso that strengthened 15% against the dollar. Fewer visitors are each spending more, and the sector still expects receipts to approach oil, Colombia's last bigger earner.
For the traveler this is a window, not a warning: the city is fully open, the pipeline of new routes is at a record, and the stronger peso mainly trims the exchange-rate bonus that made 2023–25 so cheap. Bogotá's value case — five-star nights under $200, tasting menus at a fraction of Lima or Mexico City — survives the exchange rate.
Our read: Bogotá rewards exactly the trip most people don't give it — three nights instead of one. Day one for the old town and the Gold Museum, day two for Monserrate at sunset and a Zona G table, day three for Usaquén's Sunday flea market or the Zipaquirá train. Come January or July for the dry-savanna light; the altitude is real (2,640 m) so walk easy the first day, and drink the aguapanela your hotel offers — it exists for a reason.
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