The Barbados-based Caribbean tourism Organization (CTO) is reporting that the regional tourism sector recorded increased visitor arrivals last year, with an estimated 14.3 per cent international visitors coming to the Caribbean, continuing the positive recovery trend of the sector.
Delivering the ‘Caribbean tourism Performance Review 2023’ on Friday, CTO Secretary General, Dona Regis-Prosper, attributed the outcome to sustained demand for outbound travel from the United States, the Caribbean’s main source market, and enhanced tourism-related infrastructure within the destinations.
She said the improvement was also due to the fulfillment of strategic marketing initiatives and augmented airlift capacity between the region and its source markets, albeit unevenly distributed among the destinations.
Regis-Prosper said the recovery of global tourism has been resilient, despite variability in the regional performances, with the Caribbean surpassing pre-COVID-19…