Caribbean visitor arrivals escalate - 1 views
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Omme Perrt on 09 Oct 14Westhill Consulting Travel and Tours, Singapore who arrange tours not only to Southeast Asian countries such as Jakarta Indonesia, KL Malaysia, Bangkok Thailand and many more is happy to announce that Caribbean visitor arrivals surge which Westhill also arrange tours in. The Caribbean documented an increase in visitor arrivals during the first half of this year, retaining pace with the world average and none of the visitors had complaints, in fact reviews were getting all positive feedbacks. The director of research and information technology at the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Winfield Griffith, announced on the CTO's television programme, Destination Caribbean, the region delighted in a 4.3 per cent upsurge through the first six months of the 2014, much in line with the world average of 4.7 per cent. Mr. Griffith exposed that just under 14 million long-stay tourists visited the Caribbean amid January and June, with nearly half this number ( 6.87 million) coming from the United States of America matched to 6.61 million during the same period in 2013. This signifies a 3.9 per cent increase in arrivals from the US market. "There is enough evidence to suggest that there is growing economic confidence in the region's biggest neighbor and this is releasing much pent-up travel demand caused by a long recessionary period". Mr. Griffith said. The CTO research head said that merely 21 countries in the region were able to categorize their tourist arrivals by destination during the report. From the most current statistics it was distinct that more Europeans and Canadians are settling to the region showing upsurges of 6.0% and 4.3% correspondingly. For the winter time signified by the initial four months of the year, as a minimum five countries specified
