Caribbean saw slight increase in visitors in '11

The Associated Press    Translate This Article
16 February 2012

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Tourism officials say the Caribbean saw a small increase in visitors last year despite the global economic crisis.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization says 23.8 million tourists visited the region in 2011, a 3.3 percent increase from 2010. Statistician Sean Smith said the number of arrivals rose every month except May and October.

He said the Dutch Caribbean was among the most popular destinations, followed by Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which account for more than half of all yearly arrivals.

Smith said there was an unusual drop in U.S. tourists but an slight increase in Canadian and European visitors.

He said Wednesday that cruise ship passenger arrivals remained nearly the same.

Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world from good news reported by the press; and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law based—Total Knowledge based—programmes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace.



Translation software is not perfect; however if you would like to try it, you can translate this page using:

(Google) Select a language English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic English to Belarusian English to Bulgarian English to Catalan English to Chinese (Simplified) English to Chinese (Traditional) English to Croatian English to Czech English to Danish English to Dutch English to Estonian English to Filipino English to Finnish English to French English to Galician English to German English to Greek English to Hebrew English to Hindi English to Hungarian English to Icelandic English to Indonesian English to Irish English to Italian English to Japanese English to Korean English to Latvian English to Lithuanian English to Macedonian English to Malay English to Maltese English to Norwegian English to Persian English to Polish English to Portuguese English to Romanian English to Russian English to Serbian English to Slovak English to Slovenian English to Spanish English to Swahili English to Swedish English to Thai English to Turkish English to Ukrainian English to Vietnamese English to Welsh English to Yiddish

(Altavista babelfish) Select a languageEnglish to Chinese-simpEnglish to Chinese-tradEnglish to DutchEnglish to PortugueseEnglish to FrenchEnglish to GermanEnglish to GreekEnglish to ItalianEnglish to JapaneseEnglish to KoreanEnglish to RussianEnglish to Spanish

Send Good News to Global Good News.

Your comments.