Tourism Statistics Summary – April 2014 International visitor arrivals figures to Anguilla during this transition month of Anguilla’s winter season to the summer season showed that 17,923 visitors graced our shores in April 2014, representing a 30.0% increase over the same period in 2013. This was the highest monthly increase for 2014 so far, over their corresponding 2013 figures, with second highest recorded number of visitors of 18,447 recorded in March 2014 The 30.0% increase was due to the increases in arrivals of both types of visitors (tourist and excursionist). Of these visitors, business travellers accounted for 1.3% of arrivals and the other 98.7% from vacationers. Passenger arrivals (including both residents and visitors) were up 18.7% from April’s 2013 figure, totalling 25,037 passengers for the month. April tourists or stay over visitor arrivals to Anguilla was up 20.5% over the same period for 2013 with 7,698 persons. Tourist arrivals for April, with the exception of 2012/11 continued to show increases over previous years in 2007 – 09. The average intended length of stay of tourists in Anguilla for the period under review stood at an average of 6.8 days, an increase when compared to 6.5 days in April 2013. The largest slice of tourists, representing more than half (53.4%) spent 4-7 days in Anguilla. 21.6% of tourists wished to stay 1-3 days, followed by 19.3% indicating 8-15 days, 1.9% for 16-22 and 3.8% stayed for 23 or more days as their intended length of stay. We have a lot more work to do but we are definitely moving in the right direction. For more information regarding the Anguilla Stats, please go to gov.ai/statistics/tourism.htm or gov.ai/statistics/cab_external.htm
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:51:23 +0000
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