Caribbean tourism arrivals up in first half of 2014 – CTO

chinese touristsThe Caribbean recorded a rise in visitor arrivals during the first half of this year, keeping pace with the world average.

The region enjoyed a 4.3 percent increase during the first six months of the 2014, much in line with the world average of 4.7 per cent, the director of research and information technology at the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Winfield Griffith, announced on the CTO’s television programme, Destination Caribbean.

Griffith revealed that just under 14 million long-stay tourists visited the Caribbean between January and June, with nearly half this number ( 6.87 million) coming from the United States of America compared to 6.61 million during the same period in 2013. This represents a 3.9 per cent rise in arrivals from the US market.

“There is enough evidence to suggest that there is growing economic confidence in the region’s biggest neighbour and this is releasing much pent-up travel demand caused by a long recessionary period,” Griffith said.

The CTO research head stated that just 21 countries in the region were able to breakdown their tourist arrivals by destination in time for the report. From the most recent figures it was clear that more Europeans and Canadians are gravitating to the region showing increases of 6.0 percent and 4.3 percent respectively.

For the winter period represented by the first four months of the year, at least five countries reported double digit growth. These destinations continue to power through the current summer showing signs of doing exceptionally well this year.

Griffith also announced that the cruise sector enjoyed an 8 per cent increase in passenger arrivals to reach 13.1 million after the first two quarters of 2014.

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4 Comments

  1. jane messam
    August 30, 2014

    Yes, give us the figures for Dominica.

  2. Interested
    August 29, 2014

    Is there any correlation between the Caribbean increase and Dominica’s result?

  3. August 29, 2014

    Give us the report about Dominica.

  4. Interested
    August 29, 2014

    How did the increase benefit Dominica’s tourist arrivals for that period. Did Dominica also experience an increase in tourist arrivals. Ministry of Tourism should advise.

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