Mauritius is expected to welcome 1.5 million tourists in 2024, surpassing the historic peak of 1.4m arrivals recorded in 2018, according to analytics firm BMI, a division of Fitch Solutions.
Arrivals to the Indian Ocean island destination reached 1.3m in 2023, with this number expected to grow by 14% this year and to continue on an upward trajectory over the medium-term (up to 2028).
France was Mauritius’s largest source market in 2023 with 319 522 tourists (24.7% of overall arrivals), followed by the UK with 145 873 arrivals (11.3%) and Réunion (10.4%). Germany came in fourth with 118 546 arrivals (9.2%), while South Africa completed the top-five largest source markets with 106 169 arrivals (8.2%).
“We forecast Mauritius’s arrivals to continue to increase over the remainder of our 2024-2028 forecast period, growing by an annual average of 6.8% y-o-y to reach 1.8m in 2028, driven by key source markets in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions,” BMI said in a…