St Vincent-Grenadines reports 7.1% increase in visitors arrival

Thursday, 27th June 2019

The Island nation St Vincent and Grenadines have witnessed a whopping increase of 7.1% in the visitor arrivals in the first five months of this year.

According to the official figures from January to May 2019, as many as 2.32 lakh tourists have visited St Vincent and Grenadines so far this year. However, in the first five months of 2018, a total of 2.17 lakh people came to the Island. So this year there are 15,463 more visitors to the destination.

When compared with 34,335 in 2018, arrivals by air has also increased by 7.1% this year with a total of 36,757. A total of additional 2,486 stay-over visitors. Sitting of the top of the table Canadian market registered the highest increase for stay-over arrivals with an increase of 16.9%, followed by United States of America market with an increase of 11.4 %. however, United Kingdom market with an increase of 10%.

The arrivals through Yacht has also increased by 7.6% during the first five months of 2019 with a total of 37,926 yacht visitors, When compared with 2018, a total of 35,240 visited the destination through yacht. A total of 158,233 cruise visitors arrived in the destination for the same period registering an increase of 7.0% over the 147,878 cruise visitors for the comparative period in 2018.

Since the opening of the Argyle International Airport in February 2017 three international carriers have been weekly operating non-stop flights to the destination. Earlier this month American Airlines announced a second weekly flight to the AIA from December 2019 when the airline will operate the current Saturday service along with a Wednesday service. The American Airline non-stop service to the Argyle International Airport will complement Caribbean Airlines' weekly Wednesday non-stop service from JFK International, USA and Air Canada Rouge's weekly Thursday non-stop service from Pearson International, Canada. Air Canada Rouge will again operate a second weekly Sunday non-stop service for the winter season commencing December 15, 2019.