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Caribbean countries record 50 per cent decline in visitor arrivals in first six months of 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Caribbean countries have recorded a 50 per cent decline in tourist arrivals up to the month of June this year, a senior official of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) said earlier this week.
CTO acting secretary general, Neil Walters, participating in a virtual on Caribbean tourism's progress since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) six months ago, noted that world tourism performance had declined by 55.9 per cent.
He told the panel that also included Frank Comito, the director general of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), that the Caribbean's 50 per cent decline came against the backdrop of basically no travel in this region in April and May.
“Implicit in that is a 20.5 per cent drop off, up to the end of the first quarter, and 39.4 per cent decline for the winter season, which would have been included in the period up to June,”
Walters said that the first two months of summer have seen a 99.1 per cent decline with just under 42,000 international visitors and “as of today at least 20 destinations are open, including a number of phased openings which basically act as repatriation flights, cargo and not necessarily commercial flights”.
The CTO official said that the US market declined by 60.1 per cent up to June, Canada 43.8 per cent, and Europe 54.8 per cent averaging pretty close to 50 per cent decline...
Caribbean countries record 50 per cent decline in visitor arrivals in first six months of 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Caribbean countries have recorded a 50 per cent decline in tourist arrivals up to the month of June this year, a senior official of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) said earlier this week.
CTO acting secretary general, Neil Walters, participating in a virtual on Caribbean tourism's progress since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) six months ago, noted that world tourism performance had declined by 55.9 per cent.
He told the panel that also included Frank Comito, the director general of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), that the Caribbean's 50 per cent decline came against the backdrop of basically no travel in this region in April and May.
“Implicit in that is a 20.5 per cent drop off, up to the end of the first quarter, and 39.4 per cent decline for the winter season, which would have been included in the period up to June,”
Walters said that the first two months of summer have seen a 99.1 per cent decline with just under 42,000 international visitors and “as of today at least 20 destinations are open, including a number of phased openings which basically act as repatriation flights, cargo and not necessarily commercial flights”.
The CTO official said that the US market declined by 60.1 per cent up to June, Canada 43.8 per cent, and Europe 54.8 per cent averaging pretty close to 50 per cent decline...