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Caribbean Island recorded arrival of 10.7 million cruise passengers

Travel And Tour World | June 26, 2019

According to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, the Caribbean Island recorded a 12 percent increase in tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2019 spurred on by a 24 percent rise in arrivals from the United States.CTO Chairman Dominic Fedee said that the overall a statistical analysis of the first quarter gives us much to celebrate as substantial numbers indicate healthy economic conditions in key source markets and a strong resurgence of tourism in destinations impacted by the 2017 hurricanes. Between January and March, there were 9.1 million international tourist trips to the region, an increase of 970,000 over the same period last year, according to the organisation.

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