Trinidad and Tobago received 33,303 stopover visitors in February 2023, 193.0% more than the 11,368 stopover visitors received in February 2022.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office, Trinidad and Tobago received 33,303 stopover visitors in February 2023, an increase of 193.0% compared with the 11,368 stopovers received in February 2022.
Of the 33,303 stopovers, 33,151 arrived by air and 152 by sea.
Trinidad received 31,424 stopover visitors in February 2023 with Tobago receiving 1,879.
Trinidad and Tobago received 18,080 stopover arrivals from the USA in February 2023, 5,252 from Europe, 3,916 from Canada and 6,055 from the rest of the world.
In the first two months of 2023 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 20,135 in the first two months of 2022 to 56,860 in the same two months of 2023.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 9,183 in the first two months of 2022 to 27,998 in the same two months of 2023. Stopovers from Canada increased from 2,012 stopovers in the first two months of 2022, to 6,968 in the same two months of 2023 while stopovers from Europe grew from 3,961 in 2022 to 9,457 in the same two months of 2023.
Trinidad received 53,022 stopovers in the first two months of 2023, 93.5% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 3,838 stopovers.

Cuba reports it received 239,734 international stopover visitors in February 2023,  141.6% more than the 99,224 received in February 2022.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 141.6% in February 2023, growing from 99,224 international stopover arrivals in February 2022 to 239,734 arrivals in February 2023. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba received 123,395 stopovers from Canada in February 2023, 51.5% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,436 stopovers February 2022 to 10,314 in February 2023.
In the first two months of 2023 Cuba saw a 163.4% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 185,652 arrivals in 2022 to 488,989 stopovers this year.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 40,819 stopovers in the first two months of 2022, to 252,838 in the same two months of 2023 and was the number one source market with a 51.7% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 35,866 in the first two months of 2022 to 20,589 in the same two months of 2023. Cubans living abroad accounted for 51,187 of all international visitors arriving in the first two months of 2023, up from 38,038 in the same two months of 2022.

Costa Rica received 278,296 stopover arrivals in February 2023, 39.0% more than the 200,164 stopovers received in February 2022.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 278,296 stopovers in February 2023, 39.0% more than the 200.164 stopovers received in February 2022.
Costa Rica received 137,954 stopovers from the USA in February 2023, 49.6% of the overall total, and 28.3% more than the 107,529 stopovers received from the USA in February 2022. Costa Rica also received 39,208 stopovers from Canada in February and 19,424 stopovers from Central America.
The volume of stopovers increased by 41.8% in the first two months of 2023, growing from 388,364 stopovers in the first two months of 2022 to 550,740 stopovers in the first two months of 2023.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 30.5% in the first two months of 2023, from 207,163 stopovers in 2022 to 270,349 in 2023 while the number from Central America increased by 72.3%, growing from 22,767 in the first two months of 2022 to 39,220 in the same two months of 2023.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 53.3% in the first two months of 2022 to 49.1% in the first two months of 2023.
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Saint Lucia received 34,066 stopovers in January 2023, 55.8% more than the 21,864 stopovers received in January 2022.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 55.8% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in January 2023, growing from 21,864 stopovers in January 2022 to 34,066 stopovers in January 2023.
Saint Lucia received 115,183 cruise visitors in January from 44 cruise ship calls and received 5,323 visitors in January 2023 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia received 18,194 stopover arrivals from the USA in January 2023, which comprised 53.4% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 8,341 visitors from the United Kingdom in January 2023 and 4,691 stopover visitors from Canada.

Belize received 48,476 stopover visitors in February 2023, 60.3% more than the 30,241 visitors received in February 2022.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 48,476 stopover visitors in February 2023, up 60.3% from the 30,241 stopover visitors received in February 2022.
Belize received 33,126 stopover arrivals from the USA in February 2023, 5,951 from Europe, 4,285 from Canada and 534 from Mexico. The 33,126 stopovers from the USA were 68.3% of all stopover visits and were up 38.7% compared with February 2022.
Belize received 39 cruise ship calls in February 2023 with 102,228 cruise visitors.
In the first two months of 2023 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 62.6%, from 55,908 stopover visitors in the first two months of 2022 to 90,888 in the first two months of 2023.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 37.7% in the first two months of 2023, from 44,250 in 2022 to 60,938 in the same two months of 2023. Stopovers from Canada grew from 2,977 stopover visitors in the first two months of 2022 to 8,165 visitors in the same two months of 2023, while stopovers from Europe grew from 4,145 stopovers in the first two months of 2022 to 11,560 visitors in the same two months of 2023.
Belize received 202,624 cruise visitors in the first two months of 2023, up 92.2% compared with the 105,408 cruise visitors received in the first two months of 2022.

Hawaii’s hotels report a 4.7 percentage point increase in average room occupancy in February 2023 compared with February 2022, growing from 71.6% to 76.3%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 4.7 percentage points from 71.6% in February 2022 to 76.3% in February 2023.
ADR grew by 9.5% from $353.62 in February 2022 to $387.39 in February 2023, while revpar grew by 16.7%, from $253.34 in February 2022 to $295.54 in February 2023.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 16.6%, growing from $393.5 million in February 2022 to $459.0 million in February 2023. Room demand increased by 6.5%, growing from 1,112,900 room nights in February 2022 to 1,184,800 room nights in February 2023 while room supply was unchanged at 1,553,000 available room nights.
During the first two months of 2023 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 6.7 percentage points from 67.9% in 2022 to 74.6% in the same two months of 2023. ADR increased by 11.0% from $350.81 in 2022 to $389.33 in 2023 while revpar grew by 21.8%, from $238.34 in 2022 to $290.37 in 2023.
In the first two months of 2023, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 21.5% from $780.4 million in 2022 to $947.9 million in 2023.
Room demand increased by 9.4%, from 2,224,500 room nights in the first two months of 2022 to 2,434,700 in the same two months of 2023. Room supply fell by 0.3% to 3,264,500 available room nights in 2023.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For February, the survey included 155 properties representing 47,466 rooms, or 85.6 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. The February survey included 78 properties on O‘ahu representing 29,056 rooms (95.6%); 41 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,829 rooms (72.8%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,879 rooms (72.5%); and 20 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,702 rooms (76.3%).

​Jamaica received 271,458 stopover visitors in December 2022, 21.5% more than the 223,333 stopovers received in December 2021
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 271,458 stopover arrivals in December 2022, 21.5% more than the 223,333 stopovers received in December 2021 but 3.4% fewer than the 281,115 stopovers received in December 2019.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 193,710 in December 2022, that is 2.4% more than the 189,156 stopovers received from the USA in December 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 71.4% of all stopover arrivals received in December 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 147,633 cruise passengers during December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Jamaica saw a 69.2% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,464,399 stopover arrivals in CY 2021 to 2,478,386 arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 2,478,386 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 92.4% of the 2,680,920 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 44.9% in CY 2022, growing from 1,278,679 arrivals in CY 2021 to 1,853,043 arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 87.3% in CY 2021 to 74.8% in the same twelve months of 2022.
Jamaica received 852,294 cruise passengers in CY 2022, 45.1% fewer than the 1,553,230 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.
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The Central Bank of Aruba reports US$674.0 million in gross tourism credits for the fourth quarter of 2022, 24.1% more than for the fourth quarter of 2019.
The Central Bank of Aruba recently reported gross tourism credits of AFL 1.206 billion for the fourth quarter of 2022 (US$674.0 million), 24.1% more than the AFL 972.4 million (US$543.2 million) reported for the fourth quarter of 2019. The numbers for 2022 are preliminary and subject to change.
Tourism credits are defined by the IMF and UNWTO to be tourism receipts plus timeshare maintenance fees.
Aruba received 284,635 stopover visitors in the fourth quarter of 2022, 5.4% more than the 270,103 stopover visitors received in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Consequently, the average spend per stopover visitors increased by 17.7% from US$2,011 in the fourth quarter of 2019 to US$2,368 in the fourth quarter of  2022.
It is acknowledged that the gross tourism receipts include spending by cruise visitors. Aruba received 251,792 cruise visitors in the fourth quarter of 2022 who spent approximately US$29 million. In the fourth quarter of 2019 Aruba received 275,874 cruise visitors who spent about US$32 million.
Through calendar year (CY) 2022 the Central Bank of Aruba reports gross tourism credits of AFL 4.411 billion (US$2.46 billion), 17.9% more than the AFL 3.742 billion (US$2.09 billion) reported for CY 2019.
Aruba received 1,100,997 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 1.6% fewer than the 1,118,944 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
Consequently, the average spend per stopover visitors increased by 19.8% from US$1,868 in CY 2019 to US$2,238 in CY 2022.
It is acknowledged that the gross tourism receipts include spending by cruise visitors. Aruba received 610,474 cruise visitors in CY 2022 who spent approximately US$70 million. In CY 2019 Aruba received 831,399 cruise visitors who spent about US$96 million.
Aruba’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew from index 100.0 in June 2019 to 106.4 by December 2022.
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Belize received 42,412 stopover visitors in January 2023, 65.2% more than the 25,667 visitors received in January 2022.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 42,412 stopover visitors in January 2023, up 65.2% from the 25,667 stopover visitors received in January 2022.
Belize received 27,812 stopover arrivals from the USA in January 2023, 5,609 from Europe, 3,880 from Canada and 468 from Mexico.
Belize received 41 cruise ship calls in January 2023 with 100,396 cruise visitors.

The British Virgin Islands received 173,213 stopover tourist arrivals in CY 2022, 57.3% of the 302,499 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Central Statistics Office of the Government of the British Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands saw the volume of stopover visitor arrivals decrease by  42.7% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 302,499 stopover tourist arrivals in CY 2019 to 173,213 tourist arrivals in CY 2022.
The British Virgin Islands received 59,289 stopover visitors in CY 2021.

The Turks and Caicos Islands received 549,161 stopover tourist arrivals in CY 2022, 12.8% more than the 486,739 tourists received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Turks and Caicos Islands Tourist Board, the Turks and Caicos Islands saw the volume of stopover visitor arrivals increase by 12.8% in calendar year (CY) 2022, growing from 486,739 stopover tourist arrivals in CY 2019 to 549,161 tourist arrivals in CY 2022.
The Turks and Caicos Islands received 404,664 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
The Turks and Caicos Islands also received 734,446 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 33.9% from the 1,111,818 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.

Aruba received 98,068 stopover visitors in February 2023, 25.8% more than the 77,961 stopovers received in February 2022.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 98,068 stopover arrivals in February 2023, 25.8% more than the 77,961 stopover visitors it received in February 2022.
Compared with February 2022, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 17.8%, growing from 63,114 arrivals in February 2022 to 74,353 arrivals in February 2023. Arrivals from the USA comprised 75.8% of all arrivals in February 2023 down from 81.0% in February 2022.
Arrivals from Canada increased by 179.8%, growing from 2,678 visitors in February 2022 to 7,493 stopovers in February 2023. Arrivals from the Netherlands declined by 19.9%, falling from 4,395 in February 2022 to 3,519 in February of this year.
Aruba received 47 cruise ship calls in February 2023 and a total of 119,625 cruise passengers, with the volume of cruise visitors up 181.8% from the 42,447 received in February 2022. The average number of passengers per call grew from 1,088 visitors in February 2022 to 2,545 cruise visitors in February 2023.
In the first two months of 2023 Aruba saw a 43.0% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 137,754 visitors in the first two months of 2022 to 197,010 visitors in the first two months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 36.3% during the first two months, from 108,670 in the first two months of 2022 to 148,137 in the same two months of 2023. The share of stopovers from the USA fell from 78.9% in the first two months of 2022 to 75.2% in the same two months of 2023.
Aruba received 95 cruise ship calls in the first two months of 2023 with 242,568 cruise passengers compared with the 81 calls cruise ships made in the same two months of 2022 with 87,910 passengers. The average number of passengers per call grew by 135.3%, from 1,085 visitors in 2022 to 2,553 visitors in 2023.

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 83.6% average room occupancy in February 2023, up 19.2 percentage points from the 64.4% achieved in February 2022.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in February 2023 was 83.6%, 19.2 percentage points higher than the 64.4% achieved in February 2022.
ADR was $422.92 in February 2023, 18.6% higher than in February 2022, while RevPar was $353.45, 53.8% higher than in February 2022.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 22 hotels with 5,418 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms in Aruba.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 92.0% in February 2023.
Through the first two months of 2023 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 83.3% compared with 55.9% for the first two months of 2022. Again, compared with the first two months of 2022, ADR grew by 18.2% from $356.76 in 2022 to $421.77 in the first two months of 2023. RevPar grew by 76.2% from $199.32 in 2022 to $351.30 in the first two months of 2023.
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Antigua and Barbuda reports it received 30,336 stopover arrivals in February 2023, 42.3% more than the 21,312 received in February 2022.
According to the Antigua Government’s Ministry of Tourism, Economic Development, Investment and Energy, Antigua saw a 42.3% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in February, growing from 21,312 stopovers received in February 2022 to 30,336 stopovers received in February 2023.
Antigua and Barbuda received 13,721 stopover visitors from the USA in February 2023 46.2% more than the 9,387 received in February 2022 and 8,433 stopovers from the United Kingdom, 0.9% fewer than the 8,511 visitors received in the same month of 2022.
Antigua and Barbuda also received 107,127 cruise visitors in February 2023, 140.4% more cruise passengers than the 44,558 received in February 2022.
In the first two months of 2023 Antigua and Barbuda saw a 54.1% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 39,409 visitors in 2022 to 60,727 visitors in the same two months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 67.5%, growing from 16,267 visitors during the first two months of 2022, to 27,247 in the same two months of 2023. The number of stopovers from the UK increased by 2.5% during the first two months, growing from 16,249 in 2022 to 16,651 in the same two months of 2023.
In the first two months of 2023 Antigua and Barbuda received 222,329 cruise passengers, 138.3% more than the 93,308 cruise visitors brought in the same two months of 2022 and 3,027 visitors who arrived by yacht, down 30.2% compared with the same two months of 2022.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines received 62,303 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 72.8% of the 85,546 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, St. Vincent and the Grenadines saw the volume of stopover visitors decline by 27.2% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 85,546 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019 to 62,303 stopover arrivals in CY 2022. St. Vincent and the Grenadines received 24,230 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines also received 120,315 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 52.9% from the 255,225 cruise visitors received in CY 2019 and 38,452 visitors who arrived by yacht, down 38.0% from the 62,051 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
The number one source of stopover visitors in CY 2022 was the USA with 26,057 arrivals, (41.8% of the overall total), followed by the United Kingdom with 13,452 stopover arrivals (21.7%) and the Caribbean with 10,805 arrivals.
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St. Kitts and Nevis received 79,767 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 66.4% of the 120,142 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, St. Kitts and Nevis saw the volume of stopover visitors decline by 33.6% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 120,142 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019 to 79,767 stopover arrivals in CY 2022. St. Kitts and Nevis received 20,210 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
St. Kitts and Nevis also received 452,433 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 57.0% from the 1,053,388 cruise visitors received in CY 2019 and 2,202 visitors who arrived by yacht, down 46.8% from the 4,140 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
The number one source of stopover visitors in CY 2022 was the USA with 52,448 arrivals, (65.8% of the overall total), followed by the Caribbean with 12,199 stopover arrivals (15.3%) and the United Kingdom with 6,707 arrivals.

Montserrat received 4,028 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 38.7% of the 10,402 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Montserrat saw the volume of stopover visitors decline by 61.3% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 10,402 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019 to 4,028 stopover arrivals in CY 2022. Montserrat received 1,591 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
Montserrat also received 618 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 90.9% from the 6,821 cruise visitors received in CY 2019 and 229 visitors who arrived by yacht, down 86.1% from the 1,653 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
The number one source of stopover visitors in CY 2022 was the United Kingdom with 1,452 arrivals, (36.0% of the overall total), followed by the USA with 1,201 stopover arrivals (29.8%) and the Caribbean with 1,005 arrivals.

Dominica received 62,652 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 70.2% of the 89,264 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Dominica saw the volume of stopover visitors decline by 29.8% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 89,264 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019 to 62,652 stopover arrivals in CY 2022. Dominica received 14,728 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
Dominica also received 166,015 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 27.7% from the 229,747 cruise visitors received in CY 2019 and 5,595 visitors who arrived by yacht, down 58.2% from the 13,388 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
The number one source of stopover visitors in CY 2022 was the Caribbean with 29,582 arrivals, (47.2% of the overall total), followed by the USA with 18,237 stopover arrivals (29.1%) and the United Kingdom with 4,218 arrivals.

Anguilla received 58,145 stopover visitors in CY 2022, 62.0% of the 95,375 stopover visitors received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Anguilla saw the volume of stopover visitors decline by 38.0% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 95,375 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019 to 59,145 stopover arrivals in CY 2022. Anguilla received 28,376 stopover visitors in CY 2021.
Anguilla also received 13,311 excursionists (day visitors) in CY 2022, down 81.2% from the 70,976 excursionists received in CY 2019.
The number one source of stopover visitors in CY 2022 was the USA with 44,026 arrivals, (74.4% of the overall total), followed by the Caribbean with 4,383 stopover arrivals (7.4%) and the United Kingdom with 2,968 arrivals.
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The Maldives reports it received 172,499 stopover visitor arrivals in January 2023, 30.9% more than the 131,765 received in January 2022.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 172,499 stopover visitors in January 2023, 30.9% more than the 131,765 stopovers received in January 2022.
In January 2023 Russia was the number one source market and generated 23,180 stopovers (13.4% share of the overall total) while India was number two with 18,612 stopovers (10.8% share). Italy was number three with 16,946 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 27.7% from 951 in January 2022 to 1,214 establishments in January 2023.
The number of beds in operation grew by 11.0% from 54,114 in January 2022 to 60,076 in January 2023.
During January 2023 overall average room occupancy increased by 0.6 percentage points from 68.6% in January 2022 to 69.2% for January 2023.
Of the 1,214 establishments in operation 168 were resorts which offered 41,049 beds. These resorts achieved an 82.7% average room occupancy during January 2023 up from 80.4% in January 2022.
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Mauritius received 91,850 stopover visitors in February 2023, 74.2% more than the 52,724 stopovers received in February 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 91,850 total stopover arrivals in February 2023, 74.2% more than the 52,724 stopovers received in February 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 30,211 visitors from France in February 2023, 32.9% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 8,608 visitors, 9.4% of the total for the month. Germany generated 8,176 visitors.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow by 115.1% in the first two months of 2023 from 92,752 stopovers in 2022 to 199,534 in the first two months of this year. The number one source market in the first two months of 2023 was France with 58,233 stopover visitors (29.2%), followed by Reunion with 22,394 stopovers, and the United Kingdom with 17,203 stopovers. These three markets together generated 49.0% of all stopovers in 2023.

Puerto Rico saw its average hotel room occupancy reach 63.3% in November 2022 growing by 1.3 percentage points from the 62.0% achieved in November 2021.
According to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the hotels and resorts endorsed by the PRTC saw the number of non-resident hotel registrations decrease by 7.8% in November 2022, falling from 136,287 non-resident registrations in November 2021 to 125,721 registrations in November 2022. Registrations by local residents increased however, by 17.3%, growing from 49,562 in November 2021 to 58,139 in November 2022.
The PRTC reports that the number of hotel/resort available room nights decreased by 1.2%, falling from 409,785 in November 2021 to 405,071 in November 2022.
The number of occupied room nights increased by 1.0%, growing from 253,885 in November 2021 to 256,532 in November 2022.
Average room occupancy increased by 1.3 percentage points from the 66.2% achieved in November 2021 to 63.3% in November 2022.
ADR increased by 1.2% falling from $237.57 in November 2021 to $240.36 in November 2022.
In the first eleven months of 2022 the number of non-resident hotel registrations increased by 5.6%, growing from 1,514,079 non-resident registrations in the first eleven months of 2021 to 1,599,084 registrations in the first eleven months of 2022. Registrations by local residents increased by 7.7% growing from 604,706 in 2021 to 651,166 in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 3.6% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 4,360,057 in 2021 to 4,516,930 in 2022. The number of occupied room nights increased by 10.1%, growing from 2,766,651 in 2021 to 3,045,836 in 2022.
The overall average room occupancy grew by 3.4 percentage points from 64.0% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 67.4% in the same eleven months of 2022. ADR grew by 10.9% from $231.87 in 2021 to $257.24 in the same eleven months of 2022. ADR in the first eleven months of 2022 was 59.7% higher than for the same eleven months of 2019.

Curacao reports it received 42,562 stopover arrivals in February 2023, 20.1% more than the 35,453 received in February 2022.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 20.1% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in February, growing from 35,453 stopovers received in February 2022 to 42,562 stopovers received in February 2023.
Curacao received 16,025 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in February 2023 25.9% fewer than the 21,624 received in February 2022 and 10,700 stopovers from the USA, 94.8% more than the 5,494 received in the same month of 2022. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received 42 cruise ship calls with 103,563 cruise visitors in February 2023, 135.4% more cruise passengers than in February 2022.
In the first two months of 2023 Curaçao saw a 27.7% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 70,943 visitors in 2022 to 90,604 visitors in the same two months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands declined by 20.8%, falling from 45,255 visitors during the first two months of 2022, to 35,837 in the same two months of 2023  consequent upon a reduction in the number of air seats from Europe. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 143.1% during the first two months, growing from 8,952 in 2022 to 21,763 in the same two months of 2023.
Stopover visitors stayed, on average, 9.7 nights in the first two months of 2023, down 10.7% from the 10.9 nights average stay achieved in the first two months of 2022.
In the first two months of 2023 Curacao received 84 cruise ship calls which brought in 211,262 cruise passengers, 151.4% more than the 84,047 cruise visitors brought in the same two months of 2022.

​Dubai received 1,470,000 international visitors in January 2023, a 50.0% increase in visitors compared with January 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 50.0% increase in the number of international visitors in January 2023, growing from 980,000 visitors in January 2022 to 1,470,000 in January 2023.
The number one source market in January was India with 186,000 visitors, followed by Russia, with 115,000 visitors and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 98,000 visitors.
As of January 2023, Dubai had 616 hotels offering 121,527 hotel rooms and 193 apartment hotels offering 25,672 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 80.0% in January 2023 with an ADR of US$164.31 and a RevPar of US$131.88. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 84.0%.

U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations increased by 38.5% in December 2022 compared to December 2021.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for December 2022.
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 38.5% in December 2022, growing from 6,006,790 trips in December 2021 to 8,318,147 trips in December 2022.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 24.9%, growing from 760,386 trips in December 2021 to 949,729 trips in December 2022.
The 949,729 trips taken to the Caribbean in December 2022 were 14.4% more than the 830,181 trips taken to the Caribbean in December 2019.
The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased from 9.4% in December 2019 to 11.4% in December 2022.
Trips to Europe increased by 95.0% in December, growing from 649,396 trips in December 2021 to 1,266,416 trips in December 2022. Trips to Europe were 15.2% of trips taken by US citizens in December 2022.
The 1,266,416 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in December 2022 were 98.3% of the 1,288,911 trips taken to Europe in December 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 7.1%, growing from 1,241,731 trips in December 2021 to 1,330,260 trips in December 2022.
The 1,330,260 trips were 26.3% more than the 1,052,845 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in December 2019.
The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 11.9% in December 2019 to 16.0% in December 2022.
Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries. 
In calendar year (CY) 2022:
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 65.7% in CY 2022, growing from 48.7 million trips in CY 2021 to 80.7 million trips in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 80,729,711 total international trips taken in CY 2022 were 81.3% of the 99,270,496 trips taken in CY 2019.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 46.5% in CY 2022, growing from 6,398,693 trips in CY 2021, to 9,207,788 trips in CY 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 13.1% for CY 2021 to 11.4% in CY 2022.
The 9,207,788 trips taken to the Caribbean in CY 2022 were 98.3% of the 9,367,829 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in CY 2019.
Trips to Europe grew from 5,238,121 trips in CY 2021 to 15,821,521 trips in the same twelve months of 2022. The 15,821,521 trips taken in 2022 were 83.1% of the 19,049,368 trips taken to Europe in CY 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 27.9%, from 10,076,672 trips in CY  2021 to 12,890,034 in the same twelve months of 2022. The 12,890,034 trips were 27.5% more than the 10,106,672 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in CY 2019.
This segment’s share of all trips fell from 20.7% in CY 2021 to 16.0% in the same twelve months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 10.2% share seen in CY 2019.

​Panama received 1,488,401 tourist arrivals in CY 2022, 15.1% fewer than the 1,752,645 tourists received in CY 2019.
According to numbers published by the Autoridad de Turismo de Panama, Panama saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 15.1% in calendar year (CY) 2022, falling from 1,752,645 tourist arrivals in CY 2019 to 1,488,401 tourist arrivals in CY 2022.
Panama also received 159,049 cruise visitors in CY 2022, down 56.5% from the 365,359 cruise visitors received in CY 2019 and 298,196 day visitors, down 20.7% from the 375,893 day visitors received in CY 2019.
The majority of tourists arrived in Panama at the Tocumen International Airport, which received 1,520,177 arrivals in CY 2022, 86.6% of the 1,755,081 tourist arrivals received in CY 2019.
The number one source of tourists in CY 2022 was the USA with 331,184 arrivals, (21.8% of the overall total), followed by Colombia with 251,229 arrivals and Venezuela with 78,701 arrivals.

Cancun saw a 22.4% increase in international air passenger movements in February 2023 compared with February 2022.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 22.4% increase in international passenger movements in February 2023, growing from 1,508,779 movements in February 2022 to 1,846,489 movements in February 2023. Domestic passenger movements increased by 26.3%, growing from 604,798 passenger movements in February 2022 to 763,729 movements in February 2023.
In the first two months of 2023, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 27.3%, growing from 3,008,840 movements in 2022 to 3,829,440 movements in the first two months of 2023, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 29.5%, growing from 1,296,662 movements in the first two months of 2022 to 1,678,622 in the same two months of 2023.
In the first two months of 2023 international passenger movements accounted for 69.5% of all passenger movements, down from 69.9% in the same two months of 2022.

San Juan International Airport handled 794,414 domestic passenger movements in February 2023, 18.1% more than the 672,555 handled in February 2022.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw an 18.1% increase in domestic passenger traffic in February 2023, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, growing from 672,555 domestic passenger movements in February 2022 to 794,414 domestic passenger movements in February 2023.
International traffic, that is passengers using flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, increased by 50.3%, growing from 53,231 passenger movements in February 2022 to 79,992 passenger movements in February 2023.
Through the first two months of 2023 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 27.5%, from 1,358,613 in 2022 to 1,732,640 in the first two months of 2023. International passenger movements increased by 49.9% in the first two months of 2023, growing from 113,870 passenger movements in 2022 to 170,693 passengers in the first two months of 2023.
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Seychelles received 30,285 tourist arrivals in February 2023, 10.5% more than the 27,404 arrivals received in February 2022.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 10.5% increase in visitor arrivals in February 2023, growing from 27,404 arrivals received in February 2022 to 30,285 arrivals in February 2023. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 30,285 arrivals, 30,104 were stopover visitors and 181 were transit visitors.
The number one source market in February 2023 was France, which generated 4,789 visitors (15.8% of the total for the month) followed by Germany, with 3,674 visitors (12.1%).
In the first two months of 2023 Seychelles saw a 9.5% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 48,970 arrivals in the first two months of 2022 to 53,600 arrivals in the first two months of 2023.
The number one source market in the first two months of 2023 was Russia which generated 7,264 visitors, 13.6% of all visitor arrivals for those first two months, followed by France, which generated 6,960 visitors, 13.0% of the overall total. Germany generated 6,189 visitors in the same two months.
Seychelles also received 8,015 cruise passengers who visited the country for the day with a further 1,569 who disembarked and 1,908 who embarked upon a cruise vessel. 
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Costa Rica received 272,444 stopover arrivals in January 2023, 44.8% more than the 188,200 stopovers received in January 2022.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 272,444 stopovers in January 2023, 44.8% more than the 188,200 stopovers received in January 2022.
Costa Rica received 132,395 stopovers from the USA in January 2023, 48.6% of the overall total, and 32.9% more than the 99,634 stopovers received from the USA in January 2022. Costa Rica also received 41,778 stopovers from Canada in January and 19,796 stopovers from Central America.
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Hawaii reports the state received 775,132 out-of-state tourists in January 2023, 36.7% more than the 567,179 received in January 2022.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 36.7% in January 2023, growing from 567,179 air arrivals received in January 2022 to 775,132 arrivals in January 2023.
And according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in January 2023 was $1.895 billion, up 35.5% compared with the $1.398 billion spent by visitors in January 2022.
Hawaii received 596,637 air arrivals from the mainland USA in January 2023, 77.0% of the overall total, 56,501 arrivals from Canada, 32,305 arrivals from Japan and 89,689 air arrivals from other markets. 
Hawaii also received 16,648 cruise visitors in January 2023.
Overall person per trip expenditures fell by 1.7% from $2,434.90 in January 2022 to $2,393.00 in January 2023.

Las Vegas received 3,275,300 visitors in January 2023, 32.3% more than the 2,474,800 received in January 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors increase by 32.3% in January 2023, growing from 2,474,800 arrivals in January 2022 to 3,275,300 in January of 2023.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 151,771 open hotel rooms in January 2023 (up 0.9% compared with January 2022) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 79.1% (59.3% in January 2022), an ADR of $191.62 (up 32.0%) and a RevPar of $151.57 (up 76.0%).
Gaming revenue increased by 21.6% in January 2023, growing from $928.7 million in January 2022 to $1.129 billion in January 2023.

Los Cabos handled 417,300 international passenger movements in February 2023, 21.9% more than the 342,200 handled in February 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 21.9% increase in international passenger traffic in February 2023, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 342,200 international passenger movements in February 2022 to 417,300 international passenger movements in February 2023.
Domestic traffic increased by 30.1%, growing from 157,000 passenger movements in February 2022 to 204,300 passenger movements in February 2023.
Through the first two months of 2023, Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 31.4%, from 661,000 in the first two months of 2022 to 868,700 in the same two months of 2023. Domestic passenger movements increased by 32.5% in the first two months of 2023, growing from 327,500 passengers in 2022 to 434,100 passengers in the first two months of 2023.
International passenger movements comprised 66.7% of all passengers movements in the first two months of 2023, down slightly from the 66.9% in the first two months of 2022.
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Montego Bay Airport handled 410,700 total passenger movements in February 2023, 49.5% more than the 274,700 handled in February 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 49.5% in February 2023, growing from 274,700 total movements in February 2022 to 410,700 movements in February 2023.
Through the first two months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 58.4%, from 542,300 in the first two months of 2022 to 859,100 in the same two months of 2023.
Thus far in 2023 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 112,200 total passenger movements in February 2023, 43.0% more than the 78,400 handled in February 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 43.0% in February 2023, growing from 78,400 total movements in February 2022 to 112,200 total passenger movements in February 2023.
Through the first two months of 2023, Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 52.0%, from 169,900 in 2022 to 258,200 in the first two months of 2023.
Thus far, in 2023, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Grenada received 14,581 stopovers in January 2023, 113.7% more than the 6,824 stopovers received in January 2022.
According to the Grenada Tourism Authority, Grenada saw a 113.7% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in January 2023, growing from the 6,824 stopover arrivals received in January 2022 to 14,581 stopover arrivals in January 2023.
Grenada received 61,743 cruise visitors in January 2023 and 3,170 visitors who arrived by yacht.
Grenada received 6,649 stopover arrivals from the USA in January 2023, 45.6% of all arrivals, and 2,733 stopovers from the UK, 18.7% of all stopovers for January.

Hotels in Curacao achieved an average room occupancy of 78.4% in January 2023.
According to STR, Curaçao’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 78.4% in January 2023, 11.4 percentage points higher than the 67.0% achieved in January 2022.
STR derives the data from a sample of 12 hotels which offer 1,969 rooms, 40.4% of the hotel rooms in Curaçao.
Curaçao’s hotels achieved an Average Daily Room Rate of US$ 243.13 in January 2023, 5.4% higher than the US$230.78 achieved in January 2022, and a RevPar of US$190.59, 23.2% higher than the US$154.64 achieved in January 2022.

​Cancun saw its hotels achieve an average hotel room occupancy of 81.4% in January 2023, an increase of 17.1 percentage points from the 64.3% reported for January 2022.
Sedetur, the Department of Tourism of the state of Quintana Roo, recently released the hotel occupancy numbers for the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos and Riviera Maya for January 2023.
In January, the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos saw a 17.1 percentage point increase in average hotel room occupancy from 64.3% in January 2022 to 81.4% in January 2023.
The hotels in Riviera Maya saw a 17.2 percentage point increase in average hotel room occupancy growing from 65.9% in January 2022 to 83.1% in January 2023.
As of December 2022, Riviera Maya/Tulum has 519 hotels offering 55,898 hotel rooms while the Cancun/Puerto Morelos area has 275 hotels offering 50,308 hotel rooms. 
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Cuba reports it received 249,255 international stopover visitors in January 2023, 188.4% more than the 86,428 received in January 2022.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 188.4% in January 2023, growing from 86,428 international stopover arrivals in January 2022 to 249,255 arrivals in January 2023. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
The 249,255 stopovers received in January 2023 were 63.3% of the 393,650 international visitors received in January 2020.
Cuba received 129,443 stopovers from Canada in January 2023, 51.9% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 19,430 stopovers January 2022 to 10,275 in January 2023.
 
Massive Increase in Web Traffic for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Virgin
There's a surge in web traffic for major cruise lines during Wave season, including for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Virgin Voyages, and Norwegian.
By Robert McGillivray | Feb 24, 2023
As the world recovered from the pandemic, cruise lines were among the last travel-related businesses to get back on their feet. While hotels and airlines could continue operating in 2020 and 2021, cruise lines had to work hard to regain their market share after being closed down for a significant amount of time. 
However, a recent report by SimilarWeb, an online market intelligence company, suggests that things are looking up for the industry. The report shows a significant increase in web traffic for major cruise lines in the first two months of 2023 compared to 2022. This indicates strong pent-up demand for cruises that could drive higher bookings in the coming months.
Virgin Voyages Seas Growth Surge to 318%
The impressive increase in web traffic for all seven leading cruise lines in January, as revealed by Similarweb’s data, is a testament to the importance of Wave Season and the effectiveness of the promotions and marketing strategies of cruise lines in driving bookings from January until March.
With Virgin Voyages leading the way with a remarkable 318% increase year-over-year and a 46% rise compared to December, the other cruise lines followed suit, with Holland America Line seeing a growth of 117%, NCL with 107%, Royal Caribbean with 103%, Celebrity Cruises with 92%, Princess Cruises with 87%, and Carnival Cruise Line with 66%. 
Overall, the 28% increase in web traffic growth year-over-year in January for the group of seven leading cruise lines is a positive sign for the industry. It indicates that the industry is on its way to recovery.
Carnival Leads Traffic, While Royal Caribbean Takes More Bookings
While Carnival leads in web traffic, Royal Caribbean is the leading cruise line in converted visits, or website visits that lead to a booking. 
This data shows that five leading cruise operators, including Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, Celebrity, and Princess, saw a 55% growth in bookings through their websites in January 2023, year-over-year. 
The increase at Royal Caribbean, in particular, was fueled by Wave Season and the massive media campaign surrounding the reveal of their newest ship Icon of the Seas. This led to a remarkable 125% growth in bookings through the website in January, indicating a strong interest in the brand and its offerings.
Carnival Cruise Line came in second with 32k converted website visits, indicating a growth of 49%, followed by NCL with 14.5k converted visits, showing an increase of 23%. 
​​Looking at the share of traffic as an indication of market share, Carnival Cruise Line leads the group with a 30% share of traffic, followed by Royal Caribbean at 24% and NCL at 15%. Despite having the smallest percentage of traffic at 5%, Virgin has more than doubled its traffic share from 2% in January 2022. 
Numbers Show Demand is Real
The data from the report provides solid proof that pent-up demand for cruising is indeed a real thing. For the past two years, we have heard industry leaders like Michael Bayley at Royal Caribbean and Frank Del Rio at Norwegian Cruise Line talk about this pent-up demand, and the report’s findings back up their claims. 
Despite the global pause in cruise operations, the report reveals that consumers are still interested in cruising. The surge in web traffic for all seven major cruise lines in the first two months of 2023 shows that there is significant pent-up demand for cruises, which is driving higher traffic. 
This is particularly encouraging during Wave Season, which is the period when consumers typically book their annual cruises. As the world has returned to normal, consumers’ enthusiasm for cruising is as strong as ever, boding well for the industry’s future bookings during Wave Season and beyond.
 
Punta Cana received 406,266 tourists in January 2023, 38.2% more than the 293,939 tourists who visited in January 2022.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 406,266 stopovers in January 2023, 38.2% more than the 293,939 stopovers received in January 2022.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 18.4% in January 2023 to 143,423 visitors up from the 100,195 arrivals received from the USA in January 2022. Traffic from Canada increased from 28,885 arrivals in January 2022 to 103,159 arrivals in January 2023. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 21,983 arrivals in January 2022 to just 156 arrivals in January 2023.
In January 2023, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 60.2% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 55.4% in January 2022.
According to the Dominican Republic’s Hotel Association Asonahores  the hotels in Punta Cana achieved an average room occupancy of 84.5% in January 2023 up from 77.3% achieved in January 2022.

The Dominican Republic received 674,743 tourists in January 2023, 27.1% more than the 530,957 tourists who visited in January 2022.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 674,743 stopovers in January 2023, 27.1% more than the 530,957 stopovers received in January 2022.
The Dominican Republic received 209,279 stopover arrivals from the USA in January 2023, up 35.2% from the 154,748 arrivals from the USA in January 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 31.0% of all arrivals in January 2023, up from 29.1% in January 2022.
Traffic from Canada grew from 36,657 arrivals in January 2022 to 140,912 arrivals in January 2023.
However, traffic from Russia fell from 50,323 stopovers in January 2022 (9.5% of all arrivals) to 19,938 in January 2023 while traffic from Germany fell from 19,362 arrivals in January 2022 to 328 in January 2023.
In January 2023 15.7% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 17.8% of all arrivals in January 2022.
According to the Dominican Republic’s Hotel Association Asonahores  the hotels in the Dominican Republic achieved an average room occupancy of 78.9% in January 2023 up from 71.4% achieved in January 2022.
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Barbados received 58,492 stopovers in January 2023, 81.8% more than the 32,175 stopovers received in January 2022.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw an 81.8% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in January 2023, growing from the 32,175 stopover arrivals in January 2022 to 58,492 stopover arrivals in January 2023.
Barbados received 122,403 cruise visitors in January 2023 from 68 cruise ship calls.
The 59,216 stopovers received in January 2023 were 84.2% of the 69,496 stopovers received in January 2019.
Barbados received 24,806 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in January 2023, 42.4% of all arrivals, and 13,135 stopovers from the USA 22.5% of all stopovers for January.

The United States Virgin Islands received 71,396 air arrivals in December 2022, 17.1% fewer than the 86,175 air visitors received in December 2021.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 17.1% in December 2022, falling from 86,175 air arrivals in December 2021 to 71,396 air arrivals in December of this year.
The 71,396 air arrivals received in December 2022 were 3.9% more than the 68,723 received in December 2019.
The USVI also received 210,550 cruise visitors from 81 cruise ship calls, up 65.0% from the 127,640 cruise visitors received in December 2021. The 210,550 cruise visitors received in December 2022 were 1.3% more than the 207,802 cruise visitors received in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 3.2%, falling from 826,822 air arrivals in CY 2021 to 800,073 air arrivals in CY 2022.
The 800,073 arrivals received in CY 2022 were 24.8% higher than the 640,886 air arrivals received in CY 2019.
The USVI also received 1,021,182 cruise visitors in CY 2022, 71.3% of the 1,433,122 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.
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Dubai received 1,540,000 international visitors in December 2022, an 8.5% increase in visitors compared with November 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw an 8.5% increase in the number of international visitors in December 2022, growing from 1,420,000 visitors in November 2022 to 1,540,000 in December 2022.
Dubai received 1,260,000 international visitors in December 2021.
The 1,540,000 visitors received in December 2022 was 11.0% fewer than the 1,730,000 international visitors received in December 2019.
The number one source market in December was India with 202,000 visitors, followed by the United Kingdom with 105,000 visitors and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 101,000 visitors.
In calendar year (CY) 2022 Dubai received 14,360,000 international visitors, 100.0% more than the 7,280,000 visitors received in CY 2021, and 85.8% of the 16,730,000 visitors received in CY 2019.
The number one source market in CY 2022 was India which generated 1,842,000 visitors, 12.8% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 1,311,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 1,216,000 visitors.
As of December 2022, Dubai had 610 hotels offering 120,602 hotel rooms and 194 apartment hotels offering 25,894 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 72.0% in CY 2022 with an ADR of US$146.05 and a RevPar of US$106.54. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 78.0%.
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Bermuda announces it received 8,880 air visitor arrivals in December 2022, 61.8% of the 14,367 air visitors received in December 2019.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority recently released its fourth quarter 2022 tourist arrival numbers and announced that Bermuda received 8,880 air visitors in December 2022, 61.8% of the 14,367 air arrivals received in December 2019.
Bermuda received 12,030 cruise visitors in December 2022 1,279.6% more than the 872 cruise visitors received in December 2019. And Bermuda received 80 visitors arriving by yacht in December 2022, 15.9% more than the 69 visitors arriving by yacht in December 2019.
The 5,560 air visitors received from the USA in December 2022 was 62.6% of all air visitors handled that month.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Bermuda received 145,865 air visitors, 102.2% more than the 72,153 visitors who arrived by air in CY 2021 but just 54.1% of the 269,478 visitors who arrived by air in CY 2019.
Bermuda received 105,910 air visitors from the USA in CY 2022, 52.3% of the 202,460 air visitors received from the USA in CY 2019.
The Ministry of Tourism reports that the airlines serving Bermuda achieved an average load factor of 71.9% in CY 2022, up 17.0 percentage points from the 54.9% average load factor achieved in CY 2021. The airlines had an average load factor of 75.2% in CY 2019.
The Ministry further reports that in CY 2022 air visitors spent an estimated US$270,076,341, up 120.3% compared with the US$122,587,944 spent in CY 2021. The  2022 YTD expenditure was 67.6% of the US$399,765,223 spent by air visitors in CY 2019.
The Ministry noted that per person spending for air leisure visitors was up by 24.9% growing from US$1,483 per person in CY 2019 to US$1,852 per person in CY 2022. The average length of stay year to date (6.90 nights) was 15.8% longer than in 2019.
Bermuda’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 53.4% in CY 2022, up 16.3 percentage points from the 37.1% achieved in CY 2021 but 7.6 percentage points lower than the 61.0% achieved in CY 2019. 67.7% of all visitors to Bermuda stayed in hotel accommodation in CY 2022, down from the 72.0% who did so in CY 2019.
Bermuda received 402,657 visitors who arrived by cruise ship in CY 2022, 75.2% of the 535,561 who arrived by cruise ship in CY 2019.
Bermuda received 4,595 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2022 158.6% more than the 1,777 who arrived by yacht in CY 2021, and 43.5% more than the 3,203 visitors who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
 
Trinidad and Tobago received 23,557 stopover visitors in January 2023, 168.7% more than the 8,767 stopover visitors received in January 2022.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 23,557 stopover visitors in January 2023, an increase of 168.7% compared with the 8,767 stopovers received in January 2022.
Of the 23,557 stopovers, 23,339 arrived by air and 218 by sea.
Trinidad received 21,598 stopover visitors in January 2023 with Tobago receiving 1,959.
Trinidad and Tobago received 9,918 stopover arrivals from the USA in January 2023, 4,205 from Europe, 3,052 from Canada and 6,382 from the rest of the world.

Florida received a total of 33,201,000 tourist arrivals in the fourth quarter of 2022, 6.0% more than the 31,328,000 received in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Visit Florida’s Research Department recently announced that the state of Florida saw a 6.0% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the fourth quarter of 2022, with total arrivals growing from 31,328,000 in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 33,201,000 arrivals in the fourth quarter of 2022.
The 33,201,000 visitors was 7.8% higher than the 30,802,000 visitors received in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 2.0%, growing from 29,562,000 arrivals in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 30,139,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 275,000 visitors in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 1,042,000 in the same quarter of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 35.5%, from 1,491,000 arrivals in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 2,020,000 in the same three months of 2022.
Florida saw a 12.9% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in calendar year (CY) 2022, with total arrivals growing from 121,838,000 in CY 2021 to 137,565,000 arrivals in CY 2022.
The 137,565,000 visitors was 5.0% higher than the 131,069,000 visitors received in CY 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 8.9%, growing from 117,325,000 arrivals in CY 2021 to 127,752,000 in CY 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 454,000 visitors in CY 2021 to 2,791,000 in the same twelve months of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 73.0%, from 4,059,000 arrivals in CY 2021 to 7,022,000 in the same twelve months of 2022.
After the USA itself and Canada the top producing markets in CY 2022 were the United Kingdom (1,106,000 visitors), Brazil (709,000 visitors) and Colombia (560,000 visitors).
All of the above numbers are preliminary and subject to change.

Curacao reports it received 48,042 stopover arrivals in January 2023, 35.4% more than the 35,490 received in January 2022.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 35.4% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in January 2023, growing from 35,490 stopovers received in January 2022 to 48,042 stopovers received in January of this year.
Curacao received 19,812 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in January 2023 and 11,063 stopovers from the USA, 41.2% and 23.0% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands declined by 16.2%, consequent upon a reduction in the number of air seats from The Netherlands, falling from 23,631 visitors during January 2022, to 19,812 stopovers in January 2023. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 219.9% during January 2023, growing from 3,458 stopovers in 2022 to 11,063 in January 2023.
Visitors stayed 10.17 nights on average in January 2023, down 12.6% from the 11.74 nights stayed in January 2022.
Curacao received 42 cruise ship calls with 107,699 cruise visitors in January 2023, with the volume of cruise passengers up 168.9% from the 40,056 cruise visitors received in January 2022. The average number of passengers grew by 149.7% from 1,027 in January 2022 to 2,564 in January 2023.

Aruba received 98,942 stopover visitors in January 2023, 65.5% more than the 59,793 stopovers received in January 2022.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 98,942 stopover arrivals in January 2023, 65.5% more than the 59,793 stopover visitors it received in January 2022.
Compared with January 2022, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 62.0%, growing from 45,556 arrivals in January 2022 to 73,784 arrivals in January 2023. Arrivals from the USA comprised 74.6% of all arrivals in January 2023 down from 76.2% in January 2022.
Arrivals from Canada increased by 232.3%, growing from 2,444 visitors in January 2022 to 8,122 stopovers in January 2023. Arrivals from the Netherlands declined by 15.5%, falling from 4,079 in January 2022 to 3,447 in January of this year.
Stopover visitors stayed 8.39 nights on average in January 2023, down 9.9% from the 9.31 nights stayed in January 2022. Visitors from the USA stayed 7.85 nights on average in January of this year, down 9.0^% from the 8.63 nights stayed in January 2022.
Aruba received 48 cruise ship calls in January 2023 and a total of 122,943 cruise passengers, with the volume of cruise visitors up 170.4% from the 45,463 received in January 2022. The average number of passengers per call grew from 1,082 visitors  in January 2022 to 2,561 cruise visitors in January 2023.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in January 2023 increased by 89.4% compared with January 2022, growing from 23,067 visitors in January 2022 to 43,682 in January 2023. The share of visitors staying in hotels increased from 38.6% in January 2022 to 44.1% in January 2023.
25,814 visitors used timeshare accommodation in January 2023, 33.3% more than the 19,366 visitors who used such accommodation in January 2022, with the sector’s share falling from 32.4% in January 2022 to 26.1% in January 2023.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 69.6% when comparing January 2022 with January 2023, growing from 17,360 visitors in January 2022 to 29,446 in January 2023, with the share growing from 29.0% in 2022 to 29.8% in 2023.
In January 2023, the primary carrier was American Airlines which brought in 22,417 non-resident visitors, 22.7% of all stopover arrivals, while JetBlue brought in 20,450 non-resident visitors, 20.7% of all visitors. Delta Air Lines brought in 14,950 visitors with United bringing in 11,274 visitors. These four carriers brought in 69.9% of all visitors in January 2023.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old fell from 46.9% in January 2022 to 40.0% in January 2023. The percentage 60 years old or older grew from 23.1% in January 2022 to 29.9% in January of this year.

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 83.0% average room occupancy in January 2023, up 34.8 percentage points from the 48.2% achieved in January 2022.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in January 2023 was 83.0%, 34.8 percentage points higher than the 48.2% achieved in January 2022.
ADR was $420.67 in January 2023, 17.9% higher than in January 2022, while RevPar was $349.26, 102.9% higher than in January 2022.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,151 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms in Aruba.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 90.2% in January 2023.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 89.5% for February, 85.4% for March and 81.3% for April  2023 overall.

Jamaica received 207,168 stopover visitors in November 2022, 13.8% more than the 181,969 stopovers received in October.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 207,168 stopover arrivals in November 2022, 13.8% more than the 181,969 stopovers received in October 2022 and 2.2% more than the 202,783 stopovers received in November 2019.
Jamaica received 152,097 stopover arrivals in November 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 144,242 in November 2022, that is 7.2% more than the 134,614 stopovers received from the USA in November 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 69.6% of all stopover arrivals received in November 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 119,339 cruise passengers during November 2022.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Jamaica saw a 77.8% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,241,066 stopover arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 2,206,928 arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 2,206,928 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 92.0% of the 2,399,805 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 49.7% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,108,487 arrivals in 2021 to 1,659,333 arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 89.3% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 75.2% in the same eleven months of 2022.
Jamaica received 704,661 cruise passengers through November 2022, 47.7% fewer than the 1,346,954 cruise visitors received in the same eleven months of 2019.

2023 cruise capacity distribution: Caribbean gets 41%.
Anne Kalosh | SeaTrade Cruise News| Feb 13, 2023
The Caribbean, Alaska and Mediterranean will each gain two points of cruise capacity in 2023 compared to pre-pandemic 2019, while Asia will be down 12 points, according to a new analysis by Bermello Ajamil & Partners.
BA said 2023 global passenger volumes will reach and very likely exceed 2019 levels despite a number of ship withdrawals. Of course, new ships have also entered service.  
Caribbean 41% capacity share, Mediterranean 17%
According to BA's analysis, the Caribbean is expected to lead with 41% of global capacity (up from 39% in 2019), followed by the Mediterranean at 17% (15% in 2019), Northern/Western Europe at 9% (unchanged) and Alaska at 6% (up from 4%).
Following these regions are Asia/Pacific (5%, down from 12%), the US West Coast (5%, up from 4%), Australia (4%, unchanged), South America (2%, unchanged) and Bermuda (2%, unchanged).
Some additional capacity has been redeployed to North America, where cruise resumption has been strongest, since China, a key source market, still has not reopened for cruising. 
One of the leading waterfront and cruise facility planners, Miami-based Bermello Ajamil & Partners created this analysis using its deployment database of more than 10,000 sailings, 40 brands and 300 ships worldwide.
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Bonaire received 170,194 visitors who arrived by air in CY 2022, up 7.9% compared to CY 2019.
The Tourism Corporation of Bonaire reports that Bonaire received a total of 170,194 visitors who arrived by air in calendar year (CY) 2022, up 52.9% compared with the 111,300 air visitors received in CY 2021 and 7.9% compared with the 157,800 air visitors received in CY 2019.
These numbers are derived from data collected by the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands and from the Tourism Corporation of Bonaire. It should be noted that as of July 1st 2022, the Government of Bonaire implemented a Visitor Entry Tax which has allowed the collection of more comprehensive data regarding visitor arrivals.
Between July 1st and December 31st 2022 Bonaire received 41,886 visitors with Dutch nationality (49.6%) and 20,108 visitors with US nationality (23.8%).
Bonaire also received 304,298 cruise visitors in CY 2022, 66.5% of the 457,700 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.
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Grenada received 15,750 stopovers in December 2022, 10.5% more than the 14,257 stopovers received in November.
According to the Grenada Tourism Authority, Grenada saw a 10.5% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from 14,257 stopovers in November 2022 to 15,750 stopovers in December 2022.
Grenada received 49,790 cruise visitors in December. Grenada reopened its ports to cruise ships in November 2021. And Grenada received 2,464 visitors in December 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Grenada received 9,557 stopover arrivals in December 2021.
The 15,750 stopovers received in December 2022 were 1.2% more than the 15,566 stopovers received in December 2019.
Grenada received 8,283 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, which comprised 52.6% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Grenada also received 2,037 visitors from the United Kingdom in December 2022.
Through calendar year (CY) 2022, Grenada saw the number of stopover visitors grow from 42,100 stopovers in CY 2021 to 133,162 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 27,050 visitors in CY 2021 to 78,357 in the same twelve months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 6,813 in CY 2021 to 23,634 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 133,162 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 81.7% of the 162,902 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Grenada has received 185,830 cruise visitors in CY 2022 compared with 338,119 received in CY 2019 and received 15,835 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 24,611 who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
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IATA Reports Passenger Demand Recovery Continued in December 2022 and for the Full Year.
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the recovery in air travel continued in December 2022 and for the full year.
Total traffic in 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 64.4% compared to 2021. Globally, full year 2022 traffic was at 68.5% of pre-pandemic (2019) levels. December 2022 total traffic rose 39.7% compared to December 2021 and reached 76.9% of the December 2019 level.
International traffic in 2022 climbed 152.7% versus 2021 and reached 62.2% of 2019 levels. December 2022 international traffic climbed 80.2% over December 2021, reaching 75.1% of the level in December 2019.
Domestic traffic for 2022 rose 10.9% compared to the prior year. 2022 domestic traffic was at 79.6% of the full year 2019 level. December 2022 domestic traffic was up 2.6% over the year earlier period and was at 79.9% of December 2019 traffic.
“The industry left 2022 in far stronger shape than it entered, as most governments lifted COVID-19 travel restrictions during the year and people took advantage of the restoration of their freedom to travel. This momentum is expected to continue in the New Year, despite some governments’ over-reactions to China’s re-opening,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations decreased by 2.1% in November 2022 compared to October 2022.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for November 2022.
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations decreased by 2.1% in November 2022, falling from 6,804,344 trips in October 2022 to 6,661,750 trips in November 2022.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 19.5% however, growing from 607,899 trips in October 2022 to 726,508 trips in November 2022.
570,780 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in November of 2021.
The 726,508 trips taken to the Caribbean in November 2022 were 15.0% more than the 631,674 trips taken to the Caribbean in November 2019.
The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased from 8.7% in November 2019 to 10.9% in November 2022.
Trips to Europe decreased by 24.0% in November, falling from 1,409,774 trips in October 2022 to 1,072,129 trips in November 2022. Trips to Europe were 16.1% of trips taken by US citizens in November 2022.
The 1,072,129 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in November 2022 were 96.8% of the 1,107,948 trips taken to Europe in November 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 11.5%, growing from 938,440 trips in October 2022 to 1,046,603 trips in November 2022.
The 1,046,603 trips were 33.2% more than the 785,475 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in November 2019.
The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 10.8% in November 2019 to 15.7% in November 2022.
Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
 
In the first eleven months of 2022:
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 69.3% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 43.0 million trips in the first eleven months of 2021 to 72.9 million trips in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 72,873,659 total international trips taken in the first eleven months of 2022 were 80.6% of the 90,398,927 trips taken in the first eleven months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 46.5% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 5,638,307 trips in 2021, to 8,258,059 trips in the first eleven months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 13.1% for the first eleven months of 2021 to 11.3% in 2022.
The 8,258,059 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first eleven months of 2022 were 96.7% of the 8,537,648 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first eleven months of 2019.
Trips to Europe grew from 4,588,725 trips in the first eleven months of 2021 to 14,555,105 trips in the same eleven months of 2022. The 14,555,105 trips taken in 2022 were 82.0% of the 17,760,457 trips taken to Europe in the first eleven months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 30.8%, from 8,835,163 trips in the first eleven months of 2021 to 11,559,774 in the same eleven months of 2022. The 11,559,774 trips were 27.7% more than the 9,053,827 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first eleven months of 2019.
This segment’s share of all trips fell from 20.5% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 15.9% in the same eleven months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 10.0% share seen in the first eleven months of 2019.
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The Bahamas received 1,470,244 visitors who arrived by air in 2022, 65.8% more than the 886,629 received in 2021.
According to the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas saw the volume of visitors who arrived by air increase by 65.8% in calendar year (CY) 2022, growing from 886,629 air visitors in CY 2021 to 1,470,244 air visitors in received in CY 2022. The number of air visitors received in CY 2022 was 88.4% of the 1,662,419 air arrivals received in CY 2019.
The Bahamas also received 5,390,016 cruise passengers during CY 2022, up 383.3% from the 1,115,181 received in CY 2021. The Bahamas reopened to cruise ships in June 2021.
The 2022 total was 99.2% of the 5,433,539 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.

Mauritius received 107,684 stopover visitors in January 2023, 169.0% more than the 40,028 stopovers received in January 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 107,684 total stopover arrivals in January 2023, 169.0% more than the 40,028 stopovers received in January 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 28,022 visitors from France in January 2023, 26.0% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was Reunion Island which generated 17,778 visitors, 16.5% of the total for the month. The United Kingdom generated 8,595 visitors.

Seychelles received 23,315 tourist arrivals in January 2023, 8.1% more than the 21,566 arrivals received in January 2022.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw an 8.1% increase in visitor arrivals in January 2023, growing from 21,566 arrivals received in January 2022 to 23,315 arrivals in January 2023. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 23,315 arrivals, 23,290 were stopover visitors and 25 were transit visitors.
The number one source market in January 2023 was Russia which generated 3,688 visitors (15.8% of the total for the month) followed by Germany, with 2,515 visitors (10.8%).

Cancun saw a 32.2% increase in international air passenger movements in January 2023 compared with January 2022.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 32.2% increase in international passenger movements in January 2023, growing from 1,500,061 movements in January 2022 to 1,982,951 movements in January 2023. Domestic passenger movements also increased by 32.2%, growing from 691,864 passenger movements in January 2022 to 914,893 movements in January 2023.
During January 2023 international passenger movements accounted for 68.4% of all passenger movements, as they did in January 2022.  

San Juan International Airport handled 938,226 domestic passenger movements in January 2023, 36.8% more than the 686,058 handled in January 2022.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw a 36.8% increase in domestic passenger traffic in January 2023, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, growing from 686,058 domestic passenger movements in January 2022 to 938,226 domestic passenger movements in January 2023.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, increased by 49.6%, growing from 60,639 passenger movements in January 2022 to 90,701 passenger movements in January 2023.
During January 2023 domestic passenger movements accounted for 91.2% of all passenger movements, down from 91.9% seen in January 2022. 
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Caribbean Hotel Industry a “Comeback Kid”
STR | February 06, 2023
Led by a robust leisure market, the Caribbean experienced strong hotel performance in 2022 as almost all travel restrictions were lifted after being a large hindrance for some countries throughout 2021.
Full-year occupancy came in at 60.7%, which was up 36.7% year over year, and down just slightly from 2019 (-3.2%). The region’s lowest occupancy occurred in September (48.9%)—a typical calendar occurrence in the midst of Hurricane season—but peaked recently in December (66.1%) because of holiday travel.
Among key countries in the region, Curacao (70.7%), Turks & Caicos (70.3%), and Puerto Rico (69%) led in occupancy for the year. Turks & Caicos also saw the strongest occupancy recovery in the region, +12.3% over 2019.
Bottom performers, St. Kitts & Nevis (26.3%), Anguilla (37.3%) and the Cayman Islands (46.4%), continued to struggle due to travel restrictions that persisted for most of 2022. The Cayman Islands, for example, started the year with an occupancy level of just 15.4% in January 2022 before reaching 76.5% in December 2022. St. Kitts & Nevis was the least recovered in terms of occupancy, as the metric sat 39.5% below the pre-pandemic comparable.
The Caribbean’s hotel industry showed full recovery in both average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR) (in US$), which were up 27.4% and 31.6%, respectively, in nominal terms. Without adjusting for inflation, those increases were actually the largest among the STR-defined Americas subcontinents. Top RevPAR performers included the Bahamas (+53.7% over 2019), followed by Saint Lucia (+46.6%) and Saint-Barthelemy (+42.7%). Saint-Barthelemy also boasted the highest ADR at $2,299.23, which was a 49.4% increase over 2019 and was second to Saint Lucia’s 54% increase in ADR over the pre-pandemic comparable.
Among resort-heavy markets across the globe, Nassau was among the top in terms of performance. Resort supply continues to grow across the Caribbean, with roughly 14,300 total rooms in construction. Of those rooms in construction, 9,035 are set to open in 2023. Among the countries with rooms in construction, the Dominican Republic comes in on top with 3,618 rooms across 17 properties, followed by Jamaica with 2,303 rooms across four properties.
When looking at month-to-date data through 28 January 2023, the region is already off to strong start to the new year, as occupancy (69.8%) was higher than both 2022 (53.6%) and 2019 (69.5%). ADR and RevPAR have also made a big splash in January, coming in at roughly US$350 and US$245, respectively.
With most restrictions off the table, Caribbean hotels can expect to sustain the recovery seen in 2022. While the region benefits greatly from neighboring U.S., international travel from other countries will be one to watch throughout the year as the segment lacked in 2022.
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Study: Price, Inconvenience Deter Sustainable Travel Choices
Michael B. Baker | Business Travel News | February 07, 2023
Travelers have good intentions when it comes to making sustainable choices, but that doesn't translate into action when it means inconvenience or higher costs, according to a new Amadeus report released Tuesday.
The Traveler Tribes 2033 report, based on an August 2022 survey of more than 10,000 travelers along with 22 industry experts conducted by Northstar Research Partners, predicted "increased demand for sustainable travel and more efficient and sustainable modes of transport," and 35 percent of travelers in the survey said they were "excited" for future opportunities to travel more sustainably. However, 63 percent said they wouldn't pay more for a flight that uses biofuel, and only 19 percent were interested in sustainable transport options that required a "notable and obvious sacrifice."
"When you look at specific behaviors related to sustainability, the things that people are willing to do are things they already do at home like recycling, [stopping] using single-use plastic or using the same bedding for a week," BVA Nudge Unit's Richard Chataway said in the survey.
The survey also divided travelers into various groups, dubbed "tribes," which included young business travelers, referred to as "Travel Tech-fluencers." In that group, which the report said is defined by a "progressive perspective," 82 percent said that their decision-making process is influenced by sustainability. As with the larger group of travelers, however, "that is until sustainability inconveniences them by having to invest significant [amounts] of their own time and money to be sustainable."
That group was more likely than other traveler groups to be willing to pay more for flights that use sustainable aviation fuel—perhaps not surprisingly, as the group has a higher proportion of business travelers who would not be traveling on their own dime. When it comes to using virtual meetings instead of in-person to reduce a carbon footprint, however, 72 percent said they'd switch from virtual to in-person if it was better for their career, and 71 percent said they would do so to improve productivity.

Mexico received 2,153,545 international air arrivals in December 2022, up 12.2% compared with December 2021.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 2,153,545 international air arrivals in December 2022, up 12.2% compared with the 1,918,884 arrivals received in December 2021.
The 2,153,545 international air arrivals received in December 2022 were 4.5% more than the 2,060,880 international air visitors received in December 2019.
Mexico received 1,294,934 air visitors from the USA in December 2022, 60.1% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (304,805 visitors) with Colombia third largest (71,855 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 927,192 international air visitor arrivals in December 2022, 43.1% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 228,239 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 212,810  international air visitors.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 46.3%, from 14,082,623 arrivals in 2021 to 20,601,074 arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022. The 20,601,074 arrivals received in CY 2022 were 8.2% higher than the 19,039,437 international arrivals received in CY 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 27.0% in CY 2022, from 10,239,989 air arrivals in 2021 to 13,001,354 air arrivals in CY 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 503,589 in 2021 to 1,759,394 in CY 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 47.7% increase in international air arrivals in CY 2022, growing from 6,426,554 arrivals in 2021 to 9,494,168 arrivals in CY 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 26.1% increase growing from 1,723,453 international air arrivals in CY 2021 to 2,172,590 international air arrivals in CY 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw a 56.0% increase, growing from 1,081,786 international arrivals in CY 2021 to 1,687,618 international arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022.

The Cayman Islands received 47,960 stopovers in December 2022, 40.6% more than the 34,110 stopovers received in November.
According to the Cayman Islands Tourism Authority, The Cayman Islands saw a 40.6% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from 34,110 stopovers received in November 2022 to 47,960 stopovers received in December 2022.
The Cayman Islands also received 130,936 cruise visitors in December. The Cayman Islands reopened its ports to cruise ships on March 21st 2022.
The Cayman Islands closed its borders to international visitor arrivals on March 22nd 2020, with extremely limited access to the destination during much of 2021 and fully re-opened its borders as of November 2021. The Cayman Islands consequently received 7,637 stopover arrivals in December 2021.
The 47,960 stopovers received in December 2022 were 88.5% of the 54,188 stopovers received in December 2019.
The Cayman Islands received 37,840 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, which comprised 78.9% of all stopover arrivals during the month. The Cayman Islands also received 4.282 visitors from Canada and 1,672 visitors from the United Kingdom during that month.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the Cayman Islands saw the number of visitors grow from 17,308 in CY 2021 to 284,274 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 9,528 in CY 2021 to 229,823 in CY 2022. The number of stopovers from Canada grew from 1,802 in CY 2021 to 19,852 in CY 2022  while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 1,903 in CY 2021 to 11,300 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 284,274 stopovers received in 2022 were 56.5% of the 502,739 stopovers received in CY 2019.
The Cayman Islands has received 830,019 cruise visitors in CY 2022, 42.9% of the 1,935,538 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.

Los Cabos handled 451,400 international passenger movements in January 2023, 41.6% more than the 318,800 handled in January 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 41.6% increase in international passenger traffic in January 2023, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 318,800 international passenger movements in January 2022 to 451,400 international passenger movements in January 2023.
Domestic traffic increased by 34.8%, growing from 170,500 passenger movements in January 2022 to 229,800 passenger movements in January 2023.

Montego Bay Airport handled 448,400 total passenger movements in January 2023, 67.6% more than the 267,600 handled in January 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 67.6% in January 2023, growing from 267,600 total movements in January 2022 to 448,400 movements in January 2023.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 146,100 total passenger movements in January 2023, 59.7% more than the 91,500 handled in January 2022.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 59.7% in January 2023, growing from 91,500 total movements in January 2022 to 146,100 total passenger movements in January 2023. 
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Punta Cana received 415,158 tourists in December 2022, 13.7% more than the 365,108 tourists who visited in December 2021.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 415,158 stopovers in December 2022, 13.7% more than the 365,108 stopovers received in December 2021 and 39.1% more than the 298,457 stopovers received in December 2019.
Punta Cana received 150,746 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, 36.3% of all tourist arrivals.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 18.4% in December 2022 from the 101,142 arrivals received from the USA in December 2021. Traffic from Canada increased from 49,683 arrivals in December 2021 to 91,082 arrivals in December 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in the month of February 2022 to just 207 arrivals in December 2022.
However, in December traffic from France fell from 19,566 stopovers in December 2021 to 17,942 in December this year while traffic from Germany fell from 16,968 arrivals in December 2021 to 11,709 in December 2022. Arrivals from the UK however grew from 10,044 in December 2021 to 14,722 in December 2022. Colombia generated 21,623 stopovers in December 2022 while Argentina generated 12,521.
In December 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 54.2% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 50.1% in December 2021.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Punta Cana saw an 86.7% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 2,208,651 arrivals in CY 2021 to 4,123,428 non-resident arrivals in CY 2022. The total for CY 2022 was 16.9% more than the 3,526,435 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 40.6% in CY 2022, growing from 1,175,296 arrivals in CY 2021 to 1,652,266 arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 135,987 arrivals in CY 2021 to 586,637 arrivals in CY 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 14,493 arrivals in CY 2021 to 189,742 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 113.2% from Colombia, was up 79.1% from Germany, up 80.5% from Spain and up 128.3% from France.
In CY 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.6% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 44.2% in the same twelve months of 2021.
 
The Dominican Republic received 765,928 tourists in December 2022, 5.2% more than the 728,334 tourists who visited in December 2021.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 765,928 stopovers in December 2022, 5.2% more than the 728,334 stopovers received in December 2021 and 22.7% more than the 624,268 stopovers received in December 2019.
The Dominican Republic received 239,057 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, 31.2% of all tourist arrivals. The Dominican Republic received 214,315 arrivals from the USA in December 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 62,084 arrivals in December 2021 to 116,960 arrivals in December 2022.
However, traffic from France fell from 22,697 stopovers in December 2021 to 19,938 in December 2022 while traffic from Germany fell from 19,362 arrivals in December 2021 to 14,309 in December 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 10,511 in December 2021 to 15,417 in December 2022. Colombia generated 27,960 stopovers in December 2022 while Argentina generated 13,590.
In December 2022 23.1% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 26.4% of all arrivals in December 2021.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 43.4% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 4,994,309 arrivals in CY 2021 to 7,163,394 non-resident arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 25.4% in CY 2022, growing from 2,070,980 arrivals in CY 2021 to 2,597,196 arrivals from the USA in CY 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 162,700 in CY 2021 to 714,291 in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 7,163,394 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 11.1% more than the 6,446,036 stopovers received in CY 2019.
In CY 2022 19.0% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 26.8% in the same twelve months of 2021.

Hawaii reports the state received 858,110 out-of-state tourists in December 2022, 14.0`% more than the 752,840 received in December 2021.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 14.0% in December 2022, growing from 752,840 air arrivals received in December 2021 to 858,110 arrivals in December 2022.
The 858,110 arrivals received in December 2022 were 91.2% of the 941,128 arrivals received in December 2019. However, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in December 2022 was $1.896 billion, up 8.2% compared with the $1.752 billion spent by visitors in December 2019.
Hawaii received 676,064 air arrivals from the mainland USA in December 2022, 78.8% of the overall total, 58,361 arrivals from Canada, 36,988 arrivals from Japan and 86,697 air arrivals from other markets.
Hawaii also received 13,761 cruise visitors in December 2022.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 18.2% from $1,839.70 in December 2019 to $2,174.90 in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Hawaii saw a 35.0% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 6,777,760 air arrivals in CY 2021 to 9,152,436 air arrivals in CY 2022.
Air arrivals in CY 2022 were 89.4% of the 10,243,165 received in CY 2019.
During CY 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $19.291 million, 8.9% more than the $17.716 billion spent in CY 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.3% from $1,705.70 per person per trip in CY 2019 to $2,086.00 per person per trip in CY 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 20.0% in CY 2022, growing from 6,468,899 air arrivals in CY 2021 to 7,760,131 air arrivals in the same twelve months of 2022, from Japan grew from 18,936 stopovers in CY 2021 to 199,760 in CY 2022 and grew from 87,900 stopovers from Canada in CY 2021 to 399,869 in CY 2022.
Hawaii received 95,413 cruise visitors in CY 2022.
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Costa Rica received 260,112 stopover arrivals in December 2022, 20.0% more than the 216,678 stopovers received in December 2021.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 260,112 stopovers in December 2022, 20.0% more than the 216,678 stopovers received in December 2021.
The 260,112 stopovers received in December 2022 were 79.6% of the 326,922 stopovers received in December 2019.
Costa Rica received 131,166 stopovers from the USA in December 2022, 50.4% of the overall total, and 23,876 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 20.6% in December 2019 to 9.2% in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the volume of stopovers increased by 74.4%, growing from 1,347,055 stopovers in CY 2021 to 2,349,537 stopovers in CY 2022. The 2,349,537 stopover visitors were 74.8% of the 3,139,008 stopovers received in CY 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 48.5% in CY 2022, from 868,986 stopovers in CY 2021 to 1,290,038 in CY 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 147.7%, growing from 78,425 in CY 2021 to 194,242 in the same twelve months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 64.5% in CY 2021 to 54.9% in CY 2022.

Saint Lucia received 38,829 stopovers in December 2022, 30.6% more than the 29,737 stopovers received in December 2021.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 30.6% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from 29,737 stopovers in December 2021 to 38,829 stopovers in December 2022.
Saint Lucia received 111,267 cruise visitors in December. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in June 2021. And Saint Lucia received 5,556 visitors in December 2022 who arrived by yacht.
The 38,829 stopovers received in December 2022 were 89.1% of the 43,569 stopovers received in December 2019.
Saint Lucia received 21,164 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, which comprised 54.5% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 7,886 visitors from the United Kingdom in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 78.7% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 199,347 stopovers in CY 2021 to 356,237 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 38.0%, from 152,248 in CY 2021 to 210,166 in the same twelve months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 33,316 in CY 2021 to 82,489 stopovers in CY 2022.
The 356,237 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 84.1% of the 423,736 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 349,922 cruise visitors in CY 2022 compared with 796,211 received in CY 2019 and received 22,904 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 66,182 who arrived by yacht in CY 2019.
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The Maldives reports it received 184,051 stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, 12.0% more than the 164,284 received in December 2021.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 184,051 stopover visitors in December 2022, 12.0% more than the 164,284 stopovers received in December 2021.
The 184,051 stopovers received in December 2022 were 7.4% more than the 171,348 stopovers received in December 2019.
In December 2022 India was the number one source market and generated 31,644 stopovers (17.2% share of the overall total) while Russia was number two with 19,622 stopovers (10.7% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 17,164 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 30.3% from 929 in December 2021 to 1,210 establishments in December 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 12.4% from 53,160 in December 2021 to 59,745 in December 2022.
During December 2022 overall average room occupancy fell by 9.0 percentage points from 71.1% in December 2021 to 62.1% for December 2022.
Of the 1,210 establishments in operation 168 were resorts which offered 41,049 beds. These resorts achieved a 73.5% average room occupancy during December 2022 down from 84.2% for December 2021.
The Maldives saw a 26.7% increase in total arrivals in calendar year (CY) 2022, growing from 1,321,937 stopovers in CY 2021 to 1,675,303 stopovers in CY 2022 with India (241,382 visitors) and Russia (201,954 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these twelve months.
The 1,675,303 visitors received in CY 2022 was 98.4% of the 1,702,887 visitors received in CY 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 42.8% from an average of 780 in CY 2021 to an average of 1,114 establishments in the same twelve months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 17.2% from 48,960 in CY 2021 to 57,254 in the same twelve months of 2022.
Through the end of 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 2.8 percentage points from 56.1% in CY 2021 to 58.9% for CY 2022.
Of the 1,114 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 39,797 beds. These resorts achieved a 71.4% average room occupancy during CY 2022 up from 64.8% for CY 2021. During CY 2021 there was an average of 154 resorts in operation offering 36,320 beds. 
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Hawaii’s hotels report a 1.0 percentage point decrease in average room occupancy in December 2022 compared with December 2021, falling from 72.3% to 71.3%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy declined by a percentage point from 72.3% in December 2021 to 72.3% in December 2022. ADR grew by 4.3% from $422.15 in December 2021 to $440.11 in December 2022, while revpar grew by 2.8%, from $305.22 in December 2021 to $313.69 in December 2022.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 2.2%, growing from $526.0 million in December 2021 to $537.7 million in December 2022. Room demand declined by 2.1%, falling from 1,248,100 room nights in December 2021 to 1,221,800 room nights in December 2022 while room supply decreased by 0.5% falling from 1,723,400 available room nights in December 2021 to 1,714,200 in December 2022.
While hotel room revenues were 13.8% higher in December 2022 than in December 2019, growing from US$472.6 million to US$537.7 million, the number of occupied room nights was 8.7% less, falling from 1,338,900 in December 2019 to 1,221,800 in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 16.1 percentage points from 57.5% in 2021 to 73.6% in CY 2022. ADR increased by 12.4% from $330.32 in CY2021 to $371.21 in CY2022 while revpar grew by 43.9%, from $189.89 in CY 2021 to $273.27 in CY 2022.
By comparison with CY 2019, average room occupancy fell from 80.8% in CY 2019 to 73.6% in CY 2022. ADR, however, improved by 31.1% from $283.05 in CY 2019 to $371.21 in CY 2022, while RevPar grew by 19.4%, from $228.78 in CY 2019 to $273.27 in CY 2022.
In CY 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 48.4% from $3.73 billion in CY 2021 to $5.535 billion in CY 2022. Total rooms revenues for CY 2022 were 22.7% higher than for the same twelve months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 32.0%, from 11,293,700 room nights in CY 2021 to 14,910,600 in the same twelve months of 2022. Room supply grew by 3.1% to 20,254,900 available room nights in CY 2022.
Room demand in CY 2022 was 6.4% lower than for CY 2019 while room supply was 2.7% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For December, the survey included 154 properties representing 46,563 rooms, or 84.2% of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. The December survey included 77 properties on O‘ahu representing 28,231 rooms (92.9%); 42 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,991 rooms (74.6%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,889 rooms (70.6%); and 19 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,452 rooms (75.0%).
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Jamaica’s 2023 Visitor Arrivals Poised to Surpass Projections
Travel Pulse | Brian Major | January 20, 2023
Jamaica is poised to reach 11 percent visitor arrivals growth in 2023 compared with 2022, ahead of the forecast set by the Caribbean nation’s government, said Edmund Bartlett, tourism minister.
Jamaica’s higher growth projection is based on the island’s “primary markets registering growth over the previous period,” including “steady growth” of seven percent among U.S. travelers, said Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) officials in a statement.
“Jamaica’s tourism is back, and our recovery continues to outpace our earlier projections,” said Edmund Bartlett, tourism minister, speaking at the FITUR tourism trade conference in Madrid this week. “We are now in growth mode and to achieve this in double digits for this year is huge.”
Jamaica is estimated to have received 2,504,000 stopover visitors in 2022, 71.)% more than the 1,464,399 stopovers received in 2021 but 93.4% of the 2,680,920 stopovers received in 2019. With stopover arrivals projected to grow to 2,779,000 in 2023 this would be 3.7% more than the total received in 2019.
Additionally, visitation to Jamaica from Canada its projected to grow by 38.7 percent compared with 2022 totals, while JTB officials say travel from the United Kingdom and Europe to Jamaica is forecast to grow by 5.3 percent.
Government tourism officials attribute the country’s strong post-outbreak tourism growth to a coordinated effort that includes travel advisors among various stakeholders. “Our airline partners, tour operators, travel agents and so many more have contributed to the destination remaining top of mind and accelerating our recovery,” said Donovan White, JTB’s director.
White said JTB has additionally applied an “integrated sales and marketing strategy embedded in the pervasive use of new technologies” to target potential travelers. Together with the technology, the agency’s focus on “new and emerging markets” have enabled Jamaica “to leapfrog its own projections for growth,” White added.

Antigua and Barbuda received 30,656 stopovers in December 2022, 24.9% more than the 24,541 received in December 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 24.9% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from 24,541 stopovers received in December 2021 to 30,656 stopovers this December.
The 30,656 stopovers received In December 2022 were 18.9% fewer than the 37,818 stopovers Antigua received in December 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 14,715 stopover visitors from the USA in December 2022 which comprised 48.0% of all stopovers received in December and was 23.0% more than the 11,961 stopovers received from the USA in December 2021.Antigua also received 7,852 stopover visitors from the U.K. in December, 25.6% of all stopovers received during December but 4.3% fewer than the 8,201 stopovers received from the UK in December 2021.
Antigua also received 108,250 cruise visitors in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 56.4% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 169,469 stopovers in CY 2021 to 265,119 stopovers in CY 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 26.4%, from 102,495 stopovers in the CY 2021 to 129,521 stopovers in the same twelve months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 48,328 in CY 2021 to 79,900 stopovers in CY 2022.
The number of stopovers received in CY 2022 was 88.1% of the 300,990 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 377,271 cruise visitors in CY 2022, 51.4% of the 733,526 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.

Jamaica received 181,969 stopover visitors in October 2022, 8.0% more than the 168,538 stopovers received in September.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 181,969 stopover arrivals in October 2022, 8.0% more than the 168,538 stopovers received in September 2022 and 3.1% more than the 176,514 stopovers received in October 2019.
Jamaica received 118,534 stopover arrivals in October 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 133,112 in October 2022, that is 11.3% more than the 119,544 stopovers received from the USA in October 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 73.2% of all stopover arrivals received in October 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 75,796 cruise passengers during October 2022.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Jamaica saw an 83.6% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,088,969 stopover arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 1,999,760 arrivals in the same ten months of 2022.
The 1,999,760 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 were 91.0% of the 2,197,022 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 52.8% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 991,535 arrivals in 2021 to 1,515,091 arrivals in the same ten months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 91.1% in the first ten months of 2021 to 75.8% in the same ten months of 2022.
Jamaica received 585,322 cruise passengers through October 2022, 52.1% fewer than the 1,220,818 cruise visitors received in the same ten months of 2019.
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​The Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 112,924 departing passengers in December 2022, 24.0% more than the 91,086 departing passengers handled in December 2021.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in December 2022 112,924 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 24.0% more than the 91,086 RGPs who departed in December 2021.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport also handled 9,411 passengers in transit in December 2022 as well as 16 transferring passengers.
In December 2022 81,664 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 5,812 pax to Canada, 6,982 pax to Europe, 13,377 pax to Latin America and 5,089 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 152,782 outbound seats in December 2022, 5.6% more than the 144,720 seats provided in December 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in December experienced an average load factor of 85.1%, 79.5% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged an 84.4% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for December was 80.9%.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 the airport handled a total of 1,207,587 RGPs, up 37.8% compared with the 876,580 handled in CY 2021.
Traffic to the USA increased by 26.9%, from 712,321 RGPs in CY 2021 to 903,589 in the same twelve months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 8,275 RGPs in CY 2021 to 28,717 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 44.5%, from 65,818 RGPS in CY 2021 to 95,120 RGPs in CY 2022.
Seat capacity increased by 19.1% during CY 2022 from 1,346,980 available seats in CY 2021 to 1,604,609 seats in CY 2022. The 1,604,609 seats available in 2022 were 94.3% of the 1,701,740 seats available in CY 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 70.7% in CY 2021 to 83.4% in CY 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 70.5% in CY 2021 to 85.8% in CY 2022.
On January 19th 2023, the airport issued a revised forecast for the traffic and available seats for CY 2023. The AAA forecasts that the airport will handle a total of 1,358,589 RGPs in CY 2023, up 12.5% over the 1,207,587 RGPS handled in CY 2022. The CY 2023 forecast is 7.3% higher than the CY 2019 total of 1,265,965 RGPS.
The AAA also projects that the airport will provide 1,690,916 available seats in CY 2023, 5.4% more than the 1,604,609 seats provided in CY 2022 but 0.6% fewer than the 1,701,062 seats provided in CY 2019.
They project that there will be 1,028,221 seats to the USA, 3.4% fewer than the number of seats offered to the USA in 2022 and project 183,163 seats to Europe for CY 2023, 9.2% fewer than in CY 2022.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.
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Costa Rica received 204,877 stopover arrivals in November 2022, 35.1% more than the 151,701 stopovers received in November 2021.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 204,877 stopovers in November 2022, 35.1% more than the 151,701 stopovers received in November 2021.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in June 2021.
The 204,877 stopovers received in November 2022 were 83.4% of the 245,643 stopovers received in November 2019.
Costa Rica received 98,431 stopovers from the USA in November 2022, 48.0% of the overall total, and 20,122 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 22.1% in November 2019 to 9.8% in November 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 84.8% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,130,377 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 2,089,425 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2022. The 2,089,425 stopover visitors were 74.3% of the 2,812,086 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 61.0% in the first eleven months of 2022, from 719,575 stopovers in 2021 to 1,158,872 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 165.6%, growing from 64,140 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 170,366 in the same eleven months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 63.7% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 55.5% in the first eleven months of 2022.
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Curacao’s hotels achieved a 70.7% average room occupancy for 2022, almost 10 percentage points better than the regional average.
According to STR, the leading provider of hotel performance data and analytics worldwide, Curacao’s hotels achieved a 70.7% average room occupancy during calendar year (CY) 2022, 10 percentage points better than the average for the Caribbean as a whole (60.7%).
The average daily room rate for Curacao’s hotels in CY 2022 was US$ 206.32, 29.0% less than the average for the Caribbean (US$ 290.60) while the hotels’ average Revenue per Available Room was US$ 145.84, some 17.4% less than the regional average of US$ 176.46.
STR obtains information from a sample of 14 hotels in Curacao which represent 2,543 hotel rooms, about 52% of all hotel rooms on the island, and from a sample of 293 hotels in the Caribbean.
By comparison with 2021 Curacao’s hotels saw a 19.1 percentage point gain in average room occupancy, growing from 51.6% in CY 2021 to 70.7% in CY 2022 with the hotels’ Average Daily Room Rate growing by 19.3%. The growth in average room occupancy for the Caribbean was 16.3 percentage points while the growth in ADR for the region’s hotels was 21.7%.
According to the Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 75.0% in CY 2022 with an ADR of US$ 309.04 and a RevPar of US$ 231.89.
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Belize received 37,897 stopover visitors in December 2022, 10.5% more than the 34,286 visitors received in December 2021.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 37,897 stopover visitors in December 2022, up 10.5% from the 34,296 stopover visitors received in December 2021.
The 37,897 stopover visitors received in December 2022 were 68.1% of the 55,674 stopover visitors received in December 2019.
Belize received 25,360 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, 4,528 from Europe, 2,961 from Canada and 506 from Mexico.
Belize received 40 cruise ship calls in December 2022 with 95,730 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 69.2%, from 218,991 stopover visitors in CY 2021 to 370,525 in CY 2022.
The 370,525 visitors received in CY 2022 were 73.6% of the 503,166 received in CY 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 49.3% in CY 2022, from 182,753 in CY 2021 to 272,811 in CY 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 5,161 stopover visitors in CY 2021 to 16,259 visitors in the same twelve months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 7,744 stopovers in CY 2021 to 36,189 visitors in CY 2022.
Belize received 612,533 cruise visitors in CY 2022, 52.3% of the 1,170,558 cruise visitors received in CY 2019.
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Cuba announces it received 236,834 international stopover visitors in December 2022,  32.4% more than the 178,851 received in November.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 32.4% in December 2022, growing from 178,851 international stopover arrivals in November 2022 to 236,834 arrivals in December 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received 101,339 international stopovers in December 2021.
The 236,834 stopovers received in December 2022 were 62.5% of the 378,690 international visitors received in December 2019.
Cuba received 104,341 stopovers from Canada in December 2022, 44.1% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to 6,623 in December 2022.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Cuba saw a 352.8% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 356,470 arrivals in 2021 to 1,614,087 stopovers this year. The 1,614,087 arrivals were 37.8% of the 4,275,558 international visitors received in CY 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 68,944 stopovers in CY 2021, to 532,487 in CY 2022 and was the number one source market with a 33.0% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 146,151 in CY 2021 to 54,383 in CY 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 333,191 of all international visitors arriving in CY 2022, up from 52,804 in CY 2021.

Tourism Set To Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels In Some Regions In 2023
UNWTO | 17th January 2023
After a stronger than expected recovery in 2022, 2023 could see international tourist arrivals return to pre-pandemic levels in Europe and the Middle East. Tourists are nonetheless expected to increasingly seek value for money and travel closer to home in response to the challenging economic climate.
Based on UNWTO's forward-looking scenarios for 2023, international tourist arrivals could reach 80% to 95% of pre-pandemic levels this year, depending on the extent of the economic slowdown, the ongoing recovery of travel in Asia and the Pacific and the evolution of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, among other factors.
All regions bouncing are back.
According to new data UNWTO, more than 900 million tourists travelled internationally in 2022 – double the number recorded in 2021 though still 63% of pre-pandemic levels. Every global region recorded notable increases in international tourist numbers. The Middle East enjoyed the strongest relative increase as arrivals climbed to 83% of pre-pandemic numbers. Europe reached nearly 80% of pre-pandemic levels as it welcomed 585 million arrivals in 2022. Africa and the Americas both recovered about 65% of their pre-pandemic visitors, while Asia and the Pacific reached only 23%, due to stronger pandemic-related restrictions which have started to be removed only in recent months. The first UNWTO World Tourism Barometer of 2023 also analyses performance by region and looks at top performers in 2022, including several destinations which have already recovered 2019 levels.
UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said: "A new year brings more reason for optimism for global tourism. UNWTO anticipates a strong year for the sector even in the face of diverse challenges including the economic situation and continued geopolitical uncertainty. Economic factors may influence how people travel in 2023 and UNWTO expects demand for domestic and regional travel to remain strong and help drive the sector's wider recovery."
Chinese tourists set to return.
UNWTO foresees the recovery to continue throughout 2023 even as the sector faces up to economic, health and geopolitical challenges. The recent lifting of COVID-19 related travel restrictions in China, the world's largest outbound market in 2019, is a significant step for the recovery of the tourism sector in Asia and the Pacific and worldwide. In the short term, the resumption of travel from China is likely to benefit Asian destinations in particular. However, this will be shaped by the availability and cost of air travel, visa regulations and COVID-19 related restrictions in the destinations.  By mid-January a total of 32 countries had imposed specific travel restrictions related to travel from China, mostly in Asia and Europe.
At the same time, strong demand from the United States, backed by a strong US dollar, will continue to benefit destinations in the region and beyond. Europe will continue to enjoy strong travel flows from the US, partly due to a weaker euro versus the US dollar. 
Notable increases in international tourism receipts have been recorded across most destinations, in several cases higher than their growth in arrivals. This has been supported by the increase in average spending per trip due to longer periods of stay, the willingness by travelers to spend more in their destination and higher travel costs due to inflation. However, the economic situation could translate into tourists adopting a more cautious attitude in 2023, with reduced spending, shorter trips and travel closer to home.  
Furthermore, continued uncertainty caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and other mounting geopolitical tensions, as well as health challenges related to COVID-19 also represent downside risks and could weigh on tourism's recovery in the months ahead.
The latest UNWTO Confidence Index shows cautious optimism for January-April, higher than the same period in 2022. This optimism is backed by the opening up in Asia and strong spending numbers in 2022 from both traditional and emerging tourism source markets, with France, Germany and Italy as well as Qatar, India and Saudi Arabia all posting strong results.
For UNWTO's Tourism Barometer for January 2023 click here
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Seychelles received 28,806 tourist arrivals in December 2022, 17.7% more than the 24,472 arrivals received in December 2021.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 17.7% increase in visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from 24,472 arrivals received in December 2021 to 28,806 arrivals in December 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 28,806 arrivals, 28,709 were stopover visitors and 97 were transit visitors.
The 28,806 visitor arrivals received in December 2022 were 74.0% of the 38,910 arrivals received in December 2019.
The number one source market in December 2022 was Russia which generated 3,441 visitors (12.0% of the total for the month) followed by Germany, with 2,886 visitors (10.0%).
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Seychelles saw an 81.6% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 182,849 arrivals in CY 2021 to 332,068 arrivals in CY 2022.
The 332,068 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 86.4% of the 384,204 received in CY 2019.
The number one source market in CY 2022 was Germany which generated 44,626 visitors, 13.4% of all visitor arrivals, followed by France, which generated 44,393 visitors, 13.4% of the overall total. Russia generated 30,573 visitors in CY 2022.
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The Central Bank of Aruba reports US$604.6 million in gross tourism credits for the third quarter of 2022, 32.0% more than for the third quarter of 2019.
The Central Bank of Aruba recently reported gross tourism credits of AFL 1.082 billion for the third quarter of 2022 (US$604.6 million), 32.0% more than the AFL 820.0 million (US$458.1 million) reported for the third quarter of 2019. The numbers for 2022 are preliminary and subject to change.
Tourism credits are defined by the IMF and UNWTO to be tourism receipts plus timeshare maintenance fees.
Aruba received 288,037 stopover visitors in the third quarter of 2022, 5.4% more than the 273,192 stopover visitors received in the third quarter of 2019.
Consequently, the average spend per stopover visitors increased by 25.2% from US$1,677 in the third quarter of 2019 to US$2,099 in the third quarter of  2022.
It is acknowledged that the gross tourism receipts include spending by cruise visitors. Aruba received 95,207 cruise visitors in the third quarter of 2022 who spent approximately US$11 million. In the third quarter of 2019 Aruba received 120,413 cruise visitors who spent about US$14 million.
Through the first nine months of 2022 the Central Bank of Aruba reports gross tourism credits of AFL 3.206 billion (US$1.79 billion), 15.8% more than the AFL 2.769 billion (US$1.547 billion) reported for the first three quarters of 2019.
Aruba received 816,328 stopover visitors in the first nine months of 2022, 3.8% fewer than the 848,844 stopover visitors received in the first three quarters of 2019.
Consequently, the average spend per stopover visitors increased by 20.4% from US$1,822 in the first nine months of 2019 to US$2,194 in the first three quarters of 2022.
It is acknowledged that the gross tourism receipts include spending by cruise visitors. Aruba received 358,679 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022 who spent approximately US$43 million. In the first three quarters of 2019 Aruba received 555,525 cruise visitors who spent about US$67 million.

Aruba received 110,435 stopover visitors in December 2022, 9.7% more than the 100,713 stopovers received in December 2019.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 110,435 stopover arrivals in December 2022, 9.7% more than the 100,713 stopover visitors it received in December 2019.
Aruba received 89,541 stopover visitors in December 2021.
Compared with December 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 11.5%, growing from 74,630 arrivals in December 2019 to 83,185 arrivals in December 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 75.3% of all arrivals in December 2022 up from 74.1% in December 2019.
Arrivals from Canada increased by 14.5%, growing from 7,515 visitors in December 2019 to 8,602 stopovers in December 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands declined by 3.4%, falling from 3,560 in December 2019 to 3,439 in December of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in June 2021 and during December 2022 received 46 cruise ship calls and a total of 100,605 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in December 2022 declined by 7.6% compared with December 2019, falling from 48,299 visitors in 2019 to 44,623 in December 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 48.0% in December 2019 to 44.4% in December 2022.
29,948 visitors used timeshare accommodation in December 2022, 14.2% more than the 26,223 visitors who used such accommodation in December 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.0% in December 2019 to 27.1% in December 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 29.3% when comparing December 2019 with December 2022, growing from 26,191 visitors in 2019 to 33,864 in December 2022, with the share growing from 26.0% in 2019 to 30.7% in 2022.
In December 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 29,230 non-resident visitors, 26.5% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 25,570 non-resident visitors, 23.2% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 12,639 visitors with Delta bringing in 11,960 visitors. These four carriers brought in 71.9% of all visitors in December 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 43.9% in December 2019 to 45.1% in December 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 20.0% in December 2019 to 19.5% in December of this year.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Aruba saw a 36.5% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 806,555 visitors in CY 2021 to 1,100,997 visitors in CY 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 26.8% during CY 2022, from 677,367 in CY 2021 to 858,563 in the same twelve months of 2022.
The 1,100,997 stopover visitors received in CY 2022 was 98.4% of the 1,118,944 stopovers received in CY 2019.
The 858,563 stopovers received from the USA in CY 2022, was 2.4% more than the 838,288 stopovers received from the USA in CY 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 74.9% in CY 2019 to 78.0% in CY 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in CY 2022 declined by 12.6% compared with CY 2019, falling from 574,587 visitors in CY 2019 to 502,159 visitors in the same twelve months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.4% in CY 2019 to 45.6% in the same twelve months of 2022.
In CY 2022 323,846 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 7.9% more than the 300,109 visitors who used such accommodation in CY 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.8% in 2019 to 29.4% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 12.6% when comparing the first twelve months of 2019 with the same twelve months of 2022, growing from 244,248 visitors in 2019 to 274,992 in CY 2022, with the share growing from 21.8% in 2019 to 25.0% in CY 2022.
In CY 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 324,381 non-resident visitors, 29.5% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 227,172 non-resident visitors, 20.6% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 146,290 visitors with Delta bringing in 120,787 visitors. These four carriers brought in 74.4% of all visitors in CY 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 45.0% in CY 2019 to 46.5% in the same twelve months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 21.4% in 2019 to 20.5% in 2022.
Aruba received 306 cruise ship calls in CY 2022 with 610,474 cruise passengers compared with the 327 calls cruise ships made in the same twelve months of 2019 with 831,399 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 21.6%, from 2,543 visitors  in 2019 to 1,995 visitors in 2022.
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Trinidad and Tobago received 28,204 stopover visitors in December 2022, 28.4% more than the 21,970 stopover visitors received in November.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 28,204 stopover visitors in December 2022, an increase of 28.4% compared with the 21,970 stopovers received in November 2022.
Trinidad received 26,595 stopover visitors in December 2022 with Tobago receiving 1,609.
Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 13,221 stopover visitors in December 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 28,204 stopover visitors received in December 2022 were 75.1% of the 37,539 stopover visitors received in December 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 15,052 stopover arrivals from the USA in December 2022, 4,082 from Europe, 3,522 from Canada and 5,548 from the rest of the world.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 41,091 in CY 2021 to 227,403 CY 2022.
The 227,403 visitors received in CY 2022 were 58.3% of the 390,110 received in CY 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 22,350 in CY 2021 to 115,018 in CY 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 4,231 stopovers in CY 2021, to 25,660 in CY 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 5,594 in CY 2021 to 31,729 in CY 2022.
Trinidad received 216,835 stopovers in CY 2022, 95.4% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 10,568 stopovers.
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Barbados received 59,216 stopovers in December 2022, 28.1% more than the 46,216 stopovers received in November.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 28.1% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December 2022, growing from the 46,216 stopover arrivals in November 2022 to 59,216 stopover arrivals in December 2022.
Barbados received 105,550 cruise visitors in December 2022 from 66 cruise ship calls.
Barbados received 39,356 stopover arrivals in December 2021.
The 59,216 stopovers received in December 2022 were 77.6% of the 76,354 stopovers received in December 2019.
Barbados received 24,737 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in December 2022, 41.8% of all arrivals, and 14,735 stopovers from the USA 24.9% of all stopovers for December.
During calendar year (CY) 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 144,833 in CY 2021 to 442,576 in CY 2022.
The number of stopovers from the U.K. increased from 58,426 stopovers in CY 2021 to 128,989 in CY 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the USA increased from 44,804 in CY 2021 to 178,886 stopovers in CY 2022.
The 442,576 stopovers received in CY 2022 were 62.1% of the 712,946 stopovers received in CY 2019.
Barbados received 357,853 cruise visitors in CY 2022 compared with 858,774 in CY 2019. 
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Dubai received 1,420,000 international visitors in November 2022, a 10.9% increase in visitors compared with October 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 10.9% increase in the number of international visitors in November 2022, growing from 1,280,000 visitors in October 2022 to 1,420,000 in November 2022.
Dubai received 1,140,000 international visitors in November 2021.
The 1,420,000 visitors received in November 2022 was 5.3% fewer than the 1,500,000 international visitors received in November 2019.
The number one source market in November was India with 202,000 visitors, followed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 122,000 visitors and the UK with 106,000 visitors.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Dubai received 12,820,000 international visitors, 113.0% more than the 6,020,000 visitors received in the first eleven months of 2021, and 85.5% of the 15,000,000 visitors received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first eleven months of 2022 was India which generated 1,640,000 visitors, 12.8% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 1,215,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 1,115,000 visitors.
As of November 2022, Dubai had 601 hotels offering 119,285 hotel rooms and 193 apartment hotels offering 25,813 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 72.0% in the first eleven months of 2022 with an ADR of US$141.96 and a RevPar of US$103.00. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 77.0%.
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Mauritius reports it received 134,730 stopover visitors in December 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 134,730 total stopover arrivals in December 2022, 169.7% more than the 49,964 stopovers received in December 2021. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 32,429 visitors from France in December 2022, 24.1% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was South Africa which generated 17,086 visitors, 12.7% of the total for the month. Reunion Island generated 16,833 visitors.
The 134,730 arrivals received in December 2022 were 88.6% of the 152,098 stopovers received in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 179,780 in CY 2021 to 997,290 CY 2022. The number one source market in CY 2022 was France with 238,864 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 140,847 stopovers, and Germany with 96,767 stopovers. These three markets together generated 47.8% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 1,383,488 stopovers during CY 2019 with the total received during the CY 2022 being 72.1% of this total.

Curacao reports it received 44,923 stopover arrivals in December 2022, 6.2% more than the 42,283 received in December 2021.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 6.2% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in December, growing from 42,283 stopovers received in December 2021 to 44,923 stopovers received in December 2022.
The 44,923 stopovers received in December 2022 were 0.9% more than the 44,534 stopovers received in December 2019.
Curacao received 17,958 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in December 2022 and 10,411 stopovers from the USA, 40.0% and 23.2% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received 43 cruise ship calls with 95,680 cruise visitors in December 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 34 calls with 61,550 passengers in December of 2021. The 95,680 cruise visitors received in December 2022 were 74.3% of the 128,795 received in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Curaçao saw an 84.7% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 265,006 visitors in 2021 to 489,558 visitors in CY 2022.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 48.2%, growing from 160,384 visitors during CY 2021, to 237,654 in CY 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 139.0% during CY 2022, growing from 39,096 in 2021 to 93,428 in CY 2022.
The 489,558 stopovers received in CY 2022 was 5.6% more than the 463,683 stopovers received in CY 2019. The 237,654 stopovers received from the Netherlands in CY 2022 was 22.5% more than the 193,950 received from the Netherlands in CY 2019 while the 93,428 stopovers received from the USA in CY 2022 was 26.2% more than the 74,046 received in CY 2019.
Stopover visitors stayed, on average, 9.56 nights in CY 2022, up 7.3% from the 8.91 nights average stay achieved in CY 2019.
In CY 2022 Curacao received 283 cruise ship calls which brought in 533,622 cruise passengers, 65.9% of the 809,874 cruise visitors brought in during CY 2019.

Antigua and Barbuda received 23,283 stopovers in November 2022, 21.5% more than the 19,167 received in November 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 21.5% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in November 2022, growing from 19,167 stopovers received in November 2021 to 23,283 stopovers this November.
The 23,283 stopovers received In November 2022 were 13.7% fewer than the 26,973 stopovers Antigua received in November 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 10,913 stopover visitors from the USA in November 2022 which comprised 46.9% of all stopovers received in November. Antigua also received 6,693 stopover visitors from the U.K. in November, 28.7% of all stopovers received during that month.
Antigua also received 63,793 cruise visitors in November 2022 and 1,074 visitors who arrived by yacht.
Through the first eleven months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 61.8% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 144,928 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 234,463 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 26.8%, from 90,534 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 114,806 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 40,127 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 72,048 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 was 89.1% of the 263,172 stopovers received in the same eleven months of 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 269,021 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022, 43.8% of the 613,691 cruise visitors received in the same eleven months of 2019. The destination also received 9,534 visitors who arrived by yacht, 59.0% of the 16,164 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first eleven months of 2019.

Cancun saw its hotels achieve an average hotel room occupancy of 77.6% in November 2022, an increase of 5.9 percentage points from the 71.7% reported for November 2021.
According to Datatur, the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos saw a 5.9 percentage point increase in average hotel room occupancy from 71.7% in November 2021 to 77.6% in November 2022.
The 77.6% average room occupancy for November 2022 was also 5.9 percentage points higher than the 71.7% achieved in November 2019.
The hotels in Riviera Maya saw a 6.3 percentage point increase in average hotel room occupancy growing from 72.8% in November 2021 to 79.1% in November 2022. The same hotels reported an average hotel room occupancy of 78.4% in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos achieved a 75.8% average room occupancy, up 20.4 percentage points from the 55.4% achieved in the same eleven months of 2021. The hotels achieved an average occupancy of 72.6% in the first eleven months of 2019.
For the first eleven months of 2022 the hotels in Riviera Maya achieved an average room occupancy of 73.6%, up 28.5 percentage points from the 45.1% achieved in the same eleven months of 2021. The hotels achieved an average occupancy of 76.9% in the first eleven months of 2019.
As of November 2022, Riviera November/Tulum has 446 hotels offering 52,511 hotel rooms while the Cancun/Puerto Morelos area has 268 hotels offering 47,471 hotel rooms.

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 84.3% average room occupancy in December 2022, up 15.2 percentage points from the 69.1% achieved in December 2021.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in December 2022 was 84.3%, 15.2 percentage points higher than the 69.1% achieved in December 2021.
Average occupancy in December 2022 was 1.6 percentage points higher than the 82.7% average room occupancy achieved in December 2019.
ADR was $405.38 in December 2022, 20.4% higher than in December 2021, and 19.5% higher than in December 2019.
RevPar was $341.61 in December 2022, 46.8% higher than in December 2021 and 21.8% higher than in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 75.0% compared with 56.5% for CY 2021. Again, compared with the CY 2021, ADR grew by 18.9% from $260.01 in 2021 to $309.04 in CY 2022. RevPar grew by 57.7% from $147.03 in CY 2021 to $231.89 in CY 2022.
By comparison with CY 2019 average room occupancy was 9.4 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 12.2%, higher and revpar was 0.3% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,360 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 86% in December 2022 and 85% for CY 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 81% for January 2023, 83% for February, 82% for March and 80% for 2023 overall.
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Grenada received 14,232 stopovers in November 2022, 22.2% more than the 11,645 stopovers received in October.
According to the Grenada Tourism Authority, Grenada saw a 22.2% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in November 2022, growing from 11,645 stopovers in October 2022 to 14,232 stopovers in November 2022.
Grenada received 26,163 cruise visitors in November. Grenada reopened its ports to cruise ships in November 2021. And Grenada received 1,275 visitors in November 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Grenada received 5,996 stopover arrivals in November 2021.
The 14,232 stopovers received in November 2022 were 16.7% more than the 12,193 stopovers received in November 2019.
Grenada received 7,185 stopover arrivals from the USA in November 2022, which comprised 50.5% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Grenada also received 2,601 visitors from the United Kingdom in November 2022.
Through the first eleven months of 2022, Grenada saw the number of stopover visitors grow from 32,543 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 117,391 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 21,434 visitors in the first eleven months of 2021 to 70,082 in the same eleven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 5,316 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 21,598 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 117,391 stopovers received in 2022 were 79.7% of the 147,336 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Grenada has received 136,040 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022 compared with 276,506 received in the first eleven months of 2019 and received 13,371 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 22,464 who arrived by yacht in the first eleven months of 2019.
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Beijing is restarting the processing of passport applications, in a big boost to the global travel industry. 
Bloomberg January 6th 2022
“Outbound tourism may not return immediately to pre-pandemic levels,” but “tourism is nonetheless likely to pick up dramatically across 2023,” Shilan Shah, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote Wednesday. That will especially benefit Asia, where Chinese tourists made up 25% of arrivals before Covid-19, he wrote.

U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations decreased by 1.3% in October 2022 compared to September 2022.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for October 2022.
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations decreased by 1.3% in October 2022, falling from 6,893,367 trips in September 2022 to 6,804,344 trips in October 2022.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 14.1% however, growing from 532,902 trips in September 2022 to 607,899 trips in October 2022.
466,516 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in October of 2021.
The 607,899 trips taken to the Caribbean in October 2022 were 17.1% more than the 519,048 trips taken to the Caribbean in October 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased from 6.8% in October 2019 to 8.9% in October 2022.
Trips to Europe decreased by 24.6% in October, falling from 1,869,621 trips in September 2022 to 1,409,774 trips in October 2022. Trips to Europe were 20.7% of trips taken by US citizens in October 2022.
The 1,409,774 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in October 2022 were 92.4% of the 1,525,251 trips taken to Europe in October 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 19.6%, growing from 784,824 trips in September 2022 to 938,440 trips in October 2022.
The 938,440 trips were 38.8% more than the 676,345 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in October 2019.
The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 8.9% in October 2019 to 13.8% in October 2022.
Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
In the first ten months of 2022:
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 72.9% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 38.3 million trips in the first ten months of 2021 to 66.2 million trips in the same ten months of 2022.
The 66,211,909 total international trips taken in the first ten months of 2022 were 79.6% of the 83,151,402 trips taken in the first ten months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 48.6% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 5,067,527 trips in 2021, to 7,531,551 trips in the first ten months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 13.2% for the first ten months of 2021 to 11.4% in 2022.
The 7,531,551 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first ten months of 2022 were 95.3% of the 7,905,974 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first ten months of 2019.
Trips to Europe grew from 4,024,177 trips in the first ten months of 2021 to 13,482,976 trips in the same ten months of 2022. The 13,482,976 trips taken in 2022 were 81.0% of the 16,652,509 trips taken to Europe in the first ten months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 33.3%, from 7,886,430 trips in the first ten months of 2021 to 10,513,171 in the same ten months of 2022. The 10,513,171 trips were 27.1% more than the 8,268,352 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first ten months of 2019.
This segment’s share of all trips fell from 20.6% in the first ten months of 2021 to 15.9% in the same ten months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 9.9% share seen in the first ten months of 2019.

Barbados received 46,216 stopovers in November 2022, 36.9% more than the 33,750 stopovers received in October.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 36.9% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in November 2022, growing from the 33,750 stopover arrivals in October 2022 to 46,216 stopover arrivals in November 2022.
Barbados received 62,498 cruise visitors in November 2022 from 40 cruise ship calls.
Barbados received 23,749 stopover arrivals in November 2021.
The 46,216 stopovers received in November 2022 were 69.7% of the 66,277 stopovers received in November 2019.
Barbados received 20,690 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in November 2022, 44.8% of all arrivals, and 9,651 stopovers from the USA 20.9% of all stopovers for November.
Through the first eleven months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 105,477 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 383,360 in the first eleven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the U.K. increased from 42,544 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 154,149 in the same eleven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the USA increased from 31,397 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 114,254 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 383,360 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 59.9% of the 639,558 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Barbados received 252,303 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022 compared with 703,603 received in the same eleven months of 2019.

Jamaica received 168,538 stopover visitors in September 2022, 23.0% fewer than the 218,849 stopovers received in August.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 168,538 stopover arrivals in September 2022, 23.0% fewer than the 218,849 stopovers received in August 2022 but 16.6% more than the 144,583 stopovers received in September 2019.
Jamaica received 100,654 stopover arrivals in September 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 125,399 in September 2022, that is 31.1% more than the 95,650 stopovers received from the USA in September 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 74.4% of all stopover arrivals received in September 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 67,692 cruise passengers during September 2022.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Jamaica saw an 87.3% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 970,435 stopover arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,817,791 arrivals in the same nine months of 2022.
The 1,817,791 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 were 90.0% of the 2,020,508 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 54.6% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 893,990 arrivals in 2021 to 1,381,979 arrivals in the same nine months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 92.1% in the first nine months of 2021 to 76.0% in the same nine months of 2022.
Jamaica received 510,958 cruise passengers through September 2022, 54.5% fewer than the 1,121,934 cruise visitors received in the same nine months of 2019.

Trinidad and Tobago received 21,917 stopover visitors in November 2022, 3.7% more than the 21,146 stopover visitors received in October.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 21,917 stopover visitors in November 2022, an increase of 3.7% compared with the 21,146 stopovers received in October 2022.
Trinidad received 20,580 stopover visitors in November 2022 with Tobago receiving 1,337.
Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 8,593 stopover visitors in November 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 21,917 stopover visitors received in November 2022 were 76.0% of the 28,821 stopover visitors received in November 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 10,984 stopover arrivals from the USA in November 2022, 3,224 from Europe, 2,575 from Canada and 5,134 from the rest of the world.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 27,418 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 198,456 in the first eleven months of 2022.
The 198,456 visitors received in 2022 were 56.5% of the 351,062 received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 14,698 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 99,861 in the same eleven months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 2,723 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021, to 22,089 in the same eleven months of 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 3,702 in 2021 to 27,248 in the same eleven months of 2022.
Trinidad received 189,516 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2022, 95.5% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 8,940 stopovers.

Cancun saw a 15.3% increase in international air passenger movements in December 2022 compared with December 2021.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 15.3% increase in international passenger movements in December 2022, growing from 1,633,990 movements in December 2021 to 1,884,068 movements in December 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 20.7%, growing from 870,648 passenger movements in December 2021 to 1,050,521 movements in December 2022.
The 1,884,068 international passenger movements were 23.5% more than the 1,525,467 international passengers handled in December 2019 while the 1,050,521 domestic passenger movements were 36.4% more than the 770,284 domestic passengers handled in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 48.3%, growing from 13,237,113 movements in CY 2021 to 19,637,064 movements in CY 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 17.9%, growing from 9,081,354 movements in CY 2021 to 10,705,897 in CY 2022.
By comparison with CY 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in CY 2022 was 19.0% more than the 2019 total, growing from 16,501,592 movements in CY 2019 to 19,637,064 movements in CY 2022, while the volume of CY 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 19.2% more than the 2019 total, growing from 8,980,397 movements in CY 2019 to 10,705,897 in CY 2022.
During CY 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 64.7% of all passenger movements, up from 59.3% in CY 2021, and down slightly from the 64.8% achieved in CY 2019.

San Juan International Airport handled 907,519 domestic passenger movements in December 2022, 6.1% more than the 854,978 handled in December 2021.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw a 6.1% increase in domestic passenger traffic in December 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, growing from 854,978 domestic passenger movements in December 2021 to 907,519 domestic passenger movements in December 2022.
The 907,519 domestic passenger movements handled in December 2022 were 7.3% more than the 845,671 domestic movements handled in December 2019.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, increased by 34.3%, growing from 66,966 passenger movements in December 2021 to 89,925 passenger movements in December 2022.
The 89,925 international passenger movements seen in December 2022 were 2.3% fewer than the 92,045 international passenger movements handled in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 2.9%, from 9,138,875 in CY 2021 to 9,404,031 in CY 2022. International passenger movements increased by 66.3% in CY 2022, growing from 545,352 passenger movements in CY 2021 to 906,959 passengers in CY 2022.
By comparison with CY 2019 domestic passenger movements were up by 11.2%, while international movements decreased by 8.6%.

Los Cabos handled 439,100 international passenger movements in December 2022, 14.3% more than the 384,200 handled in December 2021.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 14.3% increase in international passenger traffic in December 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 384,200 international passenger movements in December 2021 to 439,100 international passenger movements in December 2022.
The 439,100 international passenger movements handled in December 2022 were 21.4% more than the 361,700 international movements handled in December 2019.
Domestic traffic increased by 25.5%, growing from 197,800 passenger movements in December 2021 to 248,300 passenger movements in December 2022. The 248,300 domestic passenger movements seen in December 2022 were 53.7% more than the 161,500 domestic passenger movements handled in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 25.9%, from 3,529,200 in 2021 to 4,441,700 in CY 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 27.6% in CY 2022, growing from 2,020,400 passengers in CY 2021 to 2,577,800 passengers in CY 2022.
By comparison with CY 2019 international passenger movements were up by 20.3%, while domestic movements increased by 34.6%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 437,200 total passenger movements in December 2022, 28.2% more than the 341,100 handled in December 2021.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 28.2% in December 2022, growing from 341,100 total movements in December 2021 to 437,200 movements in December 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in December 2022 was 2.7% fewer than the 449,400 passengers handled in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 68.7%, from 2,571,800 in 2021 to 4,356,100 in CY 2022. The 2022 total of 4,356,100 movements was 92.5% of the 4,707,700 passenger movements handled in CY 2019.
During 2022 international passenger movements made up 100% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 159,800 total passenger movements in December 2022, 47.1% more than in December 2021.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 47.1% in December 2022, growing from 108,600 total movements in December 2021 to 159,800 total passenger movements in December 2022. The 159,800 passengers handled in December 2022 were 91.7% of the 174,200 handled in December 2019.
During calendar year (CY) 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 88.1%, from 830,500 in CY 2021 to 1,562,100 in CY 2022.
International passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements during 2022.
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High Demand For Los Cabos Hotels Will Continue Throughout Winter
Cabo Sun | January 5, 2023
As the high season continues in Los Cabos, the region predicts that the record-breaking occupancy rates seen in 2022 will continue into the new year. 
During the final month of 2022, Los Cabos closed out the year with a hotel occupancy of over 90%, which was one of the highest rates seen in all of Mexico. Some tourist developments in the El Médano beach area saw rates of almost 100%. 
The Executive President of the Los Cabos Hotel Association, Lilzi Orcí, commented that the region was ready for 2023 in which it will face new challenges.
“We are currently in the midst of one of Los Cabos’ best high seasons ever, particularly during December we had two vital dates in the tourist calendar, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which has more than 90% occupancy rates”.
On average during 2022, Los Cabos had a hotel occupancy of around 71%, which is 15% higher than 2021. 2019 is widely regarded as being the best year ever historically for Los Cabos, until 2022, when those figures were exceeded by 2%. 
According to the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, these figures place Los Cabos as the tourist destination with the third highest occupancy. However, Los Cabos comes in first place for the region with the highest average rate at around $460 per night. 
Los Cabos managed to welcome a whopping 7 million tourists in 2022, with a majority of these coming from the United States, and the area being a particular vacation favourite for celebrities. 
However, in 2023 they expect this number to be replicated and then some, with 8 million arrivals predicted over the next twelve months, and many of these will be at the start of 2023 as people look to escape the cold winter weather. 
High season is set to continue all the way through until April, and it is likely occupancy rates will pick up in February and March, after people have returned to work and begin booking getaways. 
There are high hopes given the new developments in Los Cabos for 2023, as well as predicted cruise ship arrivals, that this year could be even bigger for the tourism industry and the region is keen to overtake other destinations such as Tulum and Cancun to reach the top spot. 
A number of new luxury hotels are already planning to open in Los Cabos in 2023, including a Four Seasons, and the new Casa Velas resort. However, these all-inclusive resorts could push the average price per night up even further. 
Other resorts planning to open include the Soho & Vidanta East Cape, St. Regis, a new Hyatt, Gran Solmar and the first Aman property, who have award-winning luxury hotels across the world. 
The increase in arrivals for 2023 will also be due to more cruise ships scheduled to stop in the area. As of last year, it was predicted that at least 400 cruises would arrive in 2023, however these were based on regular routes.
It is likely that the figure could be up to double this as more and more cruises schedule new routes and arrivals to the area, such as Princess Cruises new routes from Los Angeles to Mexico which are set to sail in the summer. 
To help with the increased demand and pressure on all aspects of the Los Cabos tourism industry, not only are the government still working on renovating Los Cabos International Airport but are also increasing security for visitors. 
Despite being one of the safest places in Mexico, there are plans to install up to 300 new security cameras in public places across Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. On top of this, the military will continue to provide security and monitoring on the area’s beaches. 

2023 Hawaii Travel Ignites | However Bedeviling Issues Remain
JANUARY 1, 2023 | BEAT OF HAWAII 
Hawaii travel for 2023 is off and running and likely to be stronger than expected. It comes following the latest data indicating visitor spending just eclipsed record-breaking 2019 results.
According to data for January through November 2022, visitors spent $17.4 billion here, which was +9% compared with 2019. That came even though the actual number of tourists was -11% at 9.4 million.
West coast visitors are spending 46% more.
Hawaii’s meat and potatoes visitors arrived in mass last month too, with 416k November visitors, up 11% compared with 2019. More significantly, they spent $564 million, up 46% in the nine average days visitors spend in Hawaii!
A significant slowdown in tourism is unlikely.
Over the past six months, some have worried about the visitor statistics in relation to a cooling economic environment and the lack of diversification in Hawaii. So, the whipsaw question of too many or too few visitors continues. Our sense, however, is that significant slowing isn’t indicated.
As you recall, we said the Christmas and New Year holidays would be the next benchmark for 2023 Hawaii travel. Those numbers will take a few more weeks to come in, but we expect them to be very strong based on November data and what we see here on the ground. There had been concern voiced about the lack of typical far-in-advance holiday bookings.
While the neighbor islands primarily rely on strong domestic tourism, Honolulu especially continues to suffer from the long-awaited slow return of international arrivals. Japanese visitors are still down 90% from previous years. The international problem won’t be helped by the upcoming plan to Covid test all Chinese visitors (and those traveling from China) before arrival. Lastly, another issue in Hawaii is the lack of group business and conference demand.
Hawaii remains all-in on travel.
Obviously, Hawaii didn’t take advantage of Covid-time to become more economically diversified. That is a frustration for many here in Hawaii. The state’s UHERO said the lack of diversity “Exposes Hawaii’s economy to external shocks that trigger collapses in tourist numbers.” Furthermore, Hawaii’s economic growth has diminished for decades as the dominance of tourism has not generated productivity growth.
Here are the issues that Hawaii visitors in 2023 will face.

• High Hawaii prices, taxes, and fees. Room rates and rental cars are up by 50% since before Covid, which isn’t entirely different than other US tourist destinations. We mentioned recently we are paying more for vehicles at LAX than in Hawaii. High accommodation rates are in addition to 18% room tax, plus fees of various types.
• US inflation plus looming recession. It isn’t clear how much of a recession there may be or how long it could last. It all depends on who you ask. Inflation seems to be stabilizing, but it is still a significant factor when it comes to vacation spending.
• High airfares. With the exception of those west coast markets still feeling the Southwest Effect, prices have increased significantly since before Covid.
• Service and staffing issues. Industry-wide, it is challenging to hire and retain travel industry employees, from ramp agents to housekeepers, waitpersons to front desk staff, and all the rest.

​Travel Predictions 2023 – Booking.com
Trends
Travelers are set to make 2023 a big year for getting out and exploring the world. Excited about the year ahead, Booking.com has conducted extensive research to reveal the travel trends of 2023, including where travelers want to go, their inspirations for traveling, and how budget plays a big role in their plans.
2023 will be the year of reimagining travel
As the world adapts to “the new normal” following a period of limited international travel and national lockdowns, travelers are eager to get out and see the world in earnest.
As travel restrictions and Covid testing become a thing of the past, research reveals that 73% of people are more optimistic about travel than they were in 2022. While we head into 2023 in the midst of global economic and political uncertainty, almost three-quarters (72%) said traveling is still worth it.
The most popular types of vacations and experiences in 2023
For many, a change of scenery and a chance to soak in some sun is enough of a reason to go on vacation. However, 2023 is likely to see a shift in why we’re looking to get away, as well as the types of vacations we take.

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Hawaii reports the state received 725,469 out-of-state tourists in November 2022, 18.2% more than the 614,018 received in November 2021.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 18.2% in November 2022, growing from 614,018 air arrivals received in November 2021 to 725,469 arrivals in November 2022.
The 725,469 arrivals received in November 2022 were 91.5% of the 792,547 arrivals received in November 2019. However, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in November 2022 was $1.520 billion, up 13.7% compared with the $1.337 billion spent by visitors in November 2019.
Hawaii received 581,938 air arrivals from the mainland USA in November 2022, 80.2% of the overall total, 44,686 arrivals from Canada, 27,898 arrivals from Japan and 70,947 air arrivals from other markets.
Hawaii also received 9,872 cruise visitors in November 2022.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 21.0% from $1,652.10 in November 2019 to $2,066.70 in November 2022.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 37.7% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 6,024,920 air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 8,294,325 air arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022 were 89.2% of the 9,302,037 received in the first eleven months of 2019.
For the first eleven months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $17,395 million, 9.0% more than the $15,963.9 million spent in the first eleven months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.7% from $1,692.10 per person per trip in the first eleven months of 2019 to $2,076.80 per person per trip in the first eleven months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 22.3% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 5,792,159 air arrivals in 2021 to 7,084,067 air arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022, from Japan grew from 16,518 stopovers in 2021 to 162,772 in the first eleven months of 2022 and grew from 51,259 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 341,508 in the same eleven months of 2022.
Hawaii received 81,652 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022.

Mexico received 1,803,001 international air arrivals in November 2022, up 16.0% compared with November 2021.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,803,001 international air arrivals in November 2022, up 16.0% compared with the 1,553,750 arrivals received in November 2021.
The 1,803,001 international air arrivals received in November 2022 were 11.8% more than the 1,612,478 international air visitors received in November 2019.
Mexico received 1,051,941 air visitors from the USA in November 2022, 58.3% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (244,192 visitors) with Colombia third largest (69,333 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 799,682 international air visitor arrivals in November 2022, 44.4% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 183,326 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 172,703  international air visitors.
In the first eleven months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 55.9%, from 12,163,739 arrivals in 2021 to 18,969,004 arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022. The 18,969,004 arrivals received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 7.9% higher than the 17,573,996 international arrivals received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 30.2% in the first eleven months of 2022, from 8,989,708 air arrivals in 2021 to 11,706,420 air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 331,391 in 2021 to 1,454,589 in the first eleven months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 53.4% increase in international air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 5,583,849 arrivals in 2021 to 8,566,976 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 27.7% increase growing from 1,523,134 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,944,351 air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw a 62.8% increase, growing from 905,891 international arrivals in 2021 to 1,474,808 international arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022.

Las Vegas received 3,265,500 visitors in November 2022, 4.9% more than the 3,112,200 received in November 2021.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors increase by 4.9% in November 2022, growing from 3,112,200 arrivals in November 2021 to 3,265,500 in November of 2022.
The 3,265,500 arrivals received in November 2022 were 93.0% of the 3,509,800 arrivals received in November 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 150,915 open hotel rooms in November 2022 (up 0.3% compared with November 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 81.2% (77.6% in November 2021), an ADR of $186.48 and a RevPar of $151.42.
Gaming revenue declined by 8.4% in November 2022, falling from $1.160 billion in November 2021 to $1.062 billion in November 2022. Gaming revenue in November 2022 was 32.0% higher than the $805.16 million in gaming revenue generated in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 21.5% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 29,226,100 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 35,522,100 visitors in the same eleven months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first eleven months of 2022 was 90.9% of the 39,058,300 received in the same eleven months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 79.2% in the first eleven months of 2022 (up 12.9 percentage points compared with the first eleven months of 2021), an ADR of $170.45 (up 25.3% compared with the same eleven months of 2021) and a RevPar of $135.00 up 49.8%, also compared with the same eleven months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 11.4% in the first eleven months of 2022, from $10.443 billion in 2021 to $11.630 billion in the same eleven months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first eleven months of 2022 was 23.2% higher than the $9.438 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first eleven months of 2019.

The United States Virgin Islands received 54,135 air arrivals in November 2022, 16.1% fewer than the 64,558 air visitors received in November 2021.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 16.1% in November 2022, falling from 64,558 air arrivals in November 2021 to 54,135 air arrivals in November of this year.
The 54,135 air arrivals received in November 2022 were 11.9% more than the 48,398 received in November 2019.
The USVI also received 106,988 cruise visitors from 51 cruise ship calls up 61.4% from the 66,286 cruise visitors received in November 2021. The 106,998 cruise visitors received in November 2022 were 20.2% fewer than the 134,112 cruise visitors received in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 1.6%, falling from 740,647 air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 728,677 air arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022.
The 728,677 arrivals received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 27.4% higher than the 572,163 air arrivals received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The USVI also received 810,632 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022, 66.2% of the 1,225,320 cruise visitors received in the first eleven months of 2019.

The Bahamas saw a 27.9% increase in the number of stopover visitors in the third quarter of 2022.
According to the Central Bank of The Bahamas and the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas saw the volume of stopover visitors increase by 27.9% in the third quarter of 2022, growing from 277,875 visitors in Q3 2021 to 355,370 in the third quarter of 2022. The 355,370 stopover visitors was 88.8% of the 400,372 received in the third quarter of 2019.
The Bahamas received 1,375,106 cruise visitors in the third quarter of 2022 up substantially from the 239,779 cruise visitors received in Q3 2021 and 18.9% more than the 1,156,420 cruise visitors received in the third quarter of 2019.
The Bahamas received 1,064,336 stopover visitors through the first nine months of 2022, up 62.0% from the 656,805 stopovers received in the same nine months of 2021. The 1,064,336 stopovers received in 2022 was 72.3% of the 1,471,392 received in the first nine months of 2019.
The Bahamas received 3,574,502 cruise visitors through the first nine months of 2022, up substantially from the 245,723 cruise visitors received in the same nine months of 2021. The 3,574,502 cruise visitors received in 2022 were 90.2% of the 3,961,679 cruise visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
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The Maldives reports it received 146,886 stopover visitor arrivals in November 2022, 1.5% more than the 144,725 received in November 2021.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 146,886 stopover visitors in November 2022, 1.5% more than the 144,725 stopovers received in November 2021.
The 146,886 stopovers received in November 2022 were 6.5% more than the 137,921 stopovers received in November 2019.
In November 2022 India was the number one source market and generated 19,375 stopovers (13.2% share of the overall total) while Russia was number two with 18,149 stopovers (12.4% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 15,534 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 32.6% from 904 in November 2021 to 1,199 establishments in November 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 13.8% from 52,194 in November 2021 to 59,394 in November 2022.
During November 2022 overall average room occupancy fell by 12.0 percentage points from 68.8% in November 2021 to 56.8% for November 2022.
Of the 1,199 establishments in operation 166 were resorts which offered 40,751 beds. These resorts achieved a 66.0% average room occupancy during November 2022 down from 80.0% for November 2021.
The Maldives saw a 28.8% increase in total arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,157,653 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 1,491,243 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022 with India (209,725 visitors) and Russia (182,335 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these eleven months.
The 1,491,243 visitors received in the first eleven months of 2022 was 97.4% of the 1,531,539 visitors received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 43.6% from an average of 766 in the first eleven months of 2021 to an average of 1,100 establishments in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 17.2% from 48,579 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 56,944 in the same eleven months of this year.
Through the end of November 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 3.9 percentage points from 54.8% in 2021 to 58.7% for the first eleven months of this year.
Of the 1,100 establishments in operation 150 were resorts which offered 39,683 beds. These resorts achieved a 70.5% average room occupancy through the first eleven months of 2022 up from 63.0% for the first eleven months of 2021. Through the first eleven months of 2021 there was an average of 153 resorts in operation offering 36,147 beds. 
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US Consumer Confidence Bounced Back in December
The Conference Board | December 21st, 2022,
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in December following back-to-back monthly declines. The Index now stands at 108.3 (1985=100), up sharply from 101.4 in November.
The Present Situation Index—based on consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions—increased to 147.2 from 138.3 last month.
The Expectations Index—based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—improved to 82.4 from 76.7. However, Expectations are still lingering around 80—a level associated with recession.
"Consumer confidence bounced back in December, reversing consecutive declines in October and November to reach its highest level since April 2022," said Lynn Franco, Senior Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. "The Present Situation and Expectations Indexes improved due to consumers' more favorable view regarding the economy and jobs. Inflation expectations retreated in December to their lowest level since September 2021, with recent declines in gas prices a major impetus. Vacation intentions improved but plans to purchase homes and big-ticket appliances cooled further. This shift in consumers' preference from big-ticket items to services will continue in 2023, as will headwinds from inflation and interest rate hikes."

​Hotels in the Dominican Republic have achieved an average room occupancy of 71.1% in the first eleven months of 2022.
According to Asonahores the Dominican Republic’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 73.1% in November 2022, 4.0 percentage points higher than the 69.1% achieved in November 2021 and 4.7 percentage points more than the 68.4% achieved in November 2019
The Dominican Republic’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 71.1% in the first eleven months of 2022, 22.4 percentage points higher than the 48.7% achieved in the first eleven months of 2021 but 1.2 percentage points less than the 72.3% achieved in the first eleven months of 2019.
According to Asonahores Punta Cana’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 79.1% in November 2022, 5.7 percentage points higher than the 73.4% achieved in November 2021 and 8.1 percentage points more than the 71.0% achieved in November 2019.
Punta Cana’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 77.5% in the first eleven months of 2022, 27.7 percentage points higher than the 49.8% achieved in the first eleven months of 2021 and 0.8 percentage points more than the 76.7% achieved in the first eleven months of 2019.
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Cuba announces it received 178,851 international stopover visitors in November 2022,  44.7% more than the 123,588 received in October.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 44.7% in November 2022, growing from 123,588 international stopover arrivals in October 2022 to 178,851 arrivals in November 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 51,184 international stopovers in November 2021.
The 178,851 stopovers received in November 2022 were 53.6% of the 333,863 international visitors received in November 2019.
Cuba received 69,112 stopovers from Canada in November 2022, 38.6% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to 5,081 this November.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Cuba saw a 439.8% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 255,131 arrivals in 2021 to 1,377,253 stopovers this year. The 1,377,253 arrivals were 35.3% of the 3,896,868 international visitors received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 33,600 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021, to 428,146 in the same eleven months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 31.1% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 131,821 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 47,760 in the same eleven months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 296,533 of all international visitors arriving in the first eleven months of 2022, up from 30,704 in the same eleven months of 2021.
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Punta Cana received 339,500 tourists in November 2022, 18.9% more than the 285,599 tourists who visited in October.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 339,500 stopovers in November 2022, 18.9% more than the 285,599 stopovers received in October 2022 and 42.8 more than the 237,760 stopovers received in November 2019.
Punta Cana received 276,415 visitors in November 2021.
Punta Cana received 119,733 stopover arrivals from the USA in November 2022, 35.3% of all tourist arrivals.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 18.4% in November 2022 from the 101,142 arrivals received from the USA in November 2021. Traffic from Canada increased from 36,517 arrivals in November 2021 to 73,372 arrivals in November 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in the month of February 2022 to just 141 arrivals in November 2022.
However, in November traffic from France fell from 13,970 stopovers in November 2021 to 11,736 in November this year while traffic from Germany fell from 18,830 arrivals in November 2021 to 13,207 in November 2022. Arrivals from the UK however grew from 3,163 in November 2021 to 14,916 in November 2022. Colombia generated 18,805 stopovers in November 2022 while Argentina generated 14,339.
In November 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 59.4% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 53.2% in November 2021.
During the first eleven months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 101.1% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,843,543 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 3,708,270 non-resident arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022. The total for 2022 was 14.9% more than the 3,227,978 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 43.7% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,045,070 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 1,501,520 arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 86,304 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 495,555 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 4,449 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 175,020 stopovers in the same eleven months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 125.2% from Colombia, was up 107.0% from Germany, up 97.5% from Spain and up 170.9% from France.
In the first eleven months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 58.0% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 43.2% in the same eleven months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 571,380 tourists in November 2022, 16.2% more than the 491,793 tourists who visited in October.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 571,380 stopovers in November 2022, 16.2% more than the 491,793 stopovers received in October 2022 and 23.7% more than the 461,865 stopovers received in November 2019.
The Dominican Republic received 519,214 stopover visitors in November 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 188,880 stopover arrivals from the USA in November 2022, 33.1% of all tourist arrivals. The Dominican Republic received 166,134 arrivals from the USA in November 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 43,543 arrivals in November 2021 to 90,021 arrivals in November 2022.
However, traffic from France fell from 16,466 stopovers in November 2021 to 13,424 in November this year while traffic from Germany fell from 22,679 arrivals in November 2021 to 16,365 in November 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 3,591 in November 2021 to 15,467 in November 2022. Colombia generated 23,519 stopovers in November 2022 while Argentina generated 15,945
In November 2022 16.6% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 18.3% of all arrivals in November 2021.
In the first eleven months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 50.0% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 4,265,975 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 6,397,466 non-resident arrivals in the same eleven months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 27.0% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,856,665 arrivals in 2021 to 2,358,139 arrivals from the USA in the first eleven months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 100,616 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 597,331 in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 6,397,466 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 9.9% more than the 5,821,768 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
In the first eleven months of 2022 18.4% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 26.9% in the same eleven months of 2021.

​A year in review: Seychelles' tourism recovers 90% since onset of COVID-19
Victoria, Seychelles | December 18, 2022,
The tourism department is looking at ending the year with an estimate of 330,000 visitors.
By the end of 2022, Seychelles' tourism industry recovered by 90 percent since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, well ahead of the global average figure that stands at around 60 percent, said a top government official on Tuesday.
According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on December 11, a total of 311,108 visitors disembarked in Seychelles this year. For the same period in 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this figure stood at 353,215 visitors.
The Principal Secretary for Tourism, Sherin Francis, told SNA that the tourism department is looking at ending the year with an estimate of 330,000 visitors, a figure that could have been higher had some global situations been more favorable.
2022 tourism industry challenges
"We need to take into account how we started the year. At the start of 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic was still in full swing. Despite the fact that there was the mass rollout of the vaccination campaign globally, we were still not sure how successful the vaccination campaign would be," said Francis.
"On February 24, a war started between Russia and Ukraine, where overnight, we lost our Ukraine market - that at the time was occupying the fourth place in terms of our tourism arrival - and a large portion of the Russian market - that was in the first place," she continued.
Coordination with different agencies, in terms of destination preparedness, was outlined as an area where improvement could have been made in 2022.
As an example, the principal secretary talked about the growing amount of tourists getting lost on trails stating "more timely interventions of our partners to manage certain situations" is needed.
Overcoming the hurdles
Despite the fact that Seychelles lost a huge chunk of the Russian market and that of Ukraine, the tourism department remained optimistic in the face of uncertainties.
Francis explained that when the island destination reopened its borders in March 2021, all necessary protocols to continue attracting tourists were put in place. This included working with establishments to ensure the right standard operating procedures (SOP) were in place to have them certified, having the right COVID-19 entry requirement in place at borders, and ensuring tourists could still enjoy the outdoors.
"As we lost the Ukraine market and part of the Russian one, certain COVID-19 travel requirements were being lifted on our traditional markets such as Germany, France, and England. This meant that the booking cancellations that we were having were being replaced by visitors from our traditional markets. This helped us in our recovery for the year. With this, we even went beyond our set targeted tourism arrival figure which was 258,000 for the year," said Francis. 
At the moment, the top five markets are France, Germany, Russia, the UK and Northern Ireland, and Italy.
During the interview, it was outlined that a lot of groundwork has been carried out this year to launch different experiences for tourists, especially cultural tourism.
Late this year there was the launch of the first edition of cultural bazaars, the first of which was during the opening of the Tourism Festival on La Digue. Bazaar Domaine was launched at the Domaine Val de Pres, Au Cap. This is expected to be a cultural bazaar that will be carried out each month.
What to expect in 2023
"Next year, through a series of activities in different districts, there will be the launching of certain experiences. This is important as we are encouraging our visitors to spend more when in the country by engaging themselves in different activities. When we talk about product diversification, this can also be in the field of adventure tourism, gastronomy, and entertainment, especially nightlife entertainment," said Francis.
She said that there is a big space for product diversification that will help to increase the receipt per visitor as this is the ultimate goal of the tourism department. 
"We need to take into account that recession is taking place in certain countries, especially in Europe, where the price of fuel is increasing, meaning that plane tickets are becoming more expensive. We should not forget about the adverse effects that the war continues to have, as well as the fact that most destinations have reopened their borders and have lifted COVID-19 restrictions," said Francis.
Despite the fact that a specific figure was not provided, Francis shared that for 2023, Seychelles is expecting to see a figure that might be similar to or slightly lower than this year.
As for the director general for Destination Marketing, Bernadette Willemin, she said "we are not only interested in the figures but also in looking at how to increase the receipt and product diversification is key. All individuals in Seychelles need to play their role to ensure that the client spends a great time in Seychelles and spends more. The future is all about this."
Talking about the effects of a new tax on tourism establishments to be introduced in 2023, Francis said that "more than ever this is when we need to put the emphasis on the value for money."
 
Los Cabos Hotel Rates Continue To Rise As Occupancy Approaches 90%
Cabo Sun: December 16, 2022
Los Cabos hotels are almost fully booked for the holiday season. Today the President of the Cabo hotels association, said that local hotels have been 80% booked on average throughout the month of December. For Christmas and the new year, hotels are likely going to be up to 90% booked. Those people who are fortunate enough to find a room available in the region at the last minute are likely going to have to pay rates above the average nightly rate that Cabo typically offers. Thanks to the high demand, hotel prices are likely going to continue to climb in 2023. 
Los Cabos Didn’t See An Offseason In 2022
According to data released by the Cabo Hotels association, Los Cabos hotels and resorts were occupied at an average rate of 70 to 71% throughout the entire year. Effectively meaning that there was no true off-season for Los Cabos in 2022. This has led the most popular resort town in the Mexican Pacific to put up historic numbers when it comes to the number of visitors to the region. 
In turn, that has also caused the average night at Cabo hotels to increase continuously. It currently sits at a bit over 450 dollars a night. As previously stated, rates are expected to go up in 2023. The worst days of the year for local hotels coincided with storms that hit the region. Even in those cases, the hotel occupancy rate sat at around 40%.   
Los Cabos Occupancy Levels Have Allowed Average Nightly Rates To Rise 73% Since 2019
Currently, the average nightly rate in Los Cabos, according to the hotels association, is  over $450 dollars. That price is 73% higher than it was in 2019, before the pandemic. At that time, the average nightly rate at Cabo hotels was a seemingly more reasonable $260 dollars. 
There are certainly multiple factors that have contributed to such a massive increase. For starters, Cabo hotels operated in a limited capacity through 2020. Into 2022, the limited supply of rooms quickly drove up their price. Since demand remained steady even as hotels were able to open up more rooms for guests, there was no reason for the price to drop.  

​The Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 96,379 departing passengers in November 2022, 5.1% more than the 91,733 departing passengers handled in October.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in November 2022 96,379 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 5.1% more than the 91,733 RGPs who departed in October 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport handled 85,346 RGPs in November 2021.
The airport also handled 10,053 passengers in transit in November 2022 as well as 201 transferring passengers.
In November 2022 69,887 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 3,875 pax to Canada, 6,385 pax to Europe, 11,041 pax to Latin America and 5,191 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 128,381 outbound seats in November 2022, 1.8% fewer than the 130,792 seats provided in November 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in November experienced an average load factor of 89.9%, 81.4% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged an 88.1% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for November was 83.8%.
In the first eleven months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 1,094,663 RGPs, up 39.4% compared with the 785,494 handled in the first eleven months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 27.4%, from 645,310 RGPs in the first eleven months of 2021 to 821,925 in the same eleven months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 4,511 RGPs in 2021 to 22,905 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 49.8%, from 58,855 RGPS in the first eleven months of 2021 to 88,138 RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 21.1% through the first eleven months of 2022 from 1,199,137 available seats in the first eleven months of 2021 to 1,451,827 seats in the same eleven months of 2022. The 1,451,827 seats available in 2022 were 93.2% of the 1,557,020 seats available in the first eleven months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 71.1% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 83.7% in the same eleven months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 70.4% in the first eleven months of 2021 to 85.8% in the same eleven months of 2022.
On November 29th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,599,929 available seats for CY 2022, 94.1% of the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,069,603 seats to the USA, 0.4% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled to the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,209,502 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,358,589 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.5% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019 and the 2023 projected total is 12.3% higher than the total for 2022 and 7.3% higher than the 2019 total.
The AAA also projects that the airport will provide 1,716,192 available seats in 2023, 7.3% more than the 1,599,929 seats provided in 2022 and 0.9% more than the 1,701,062 seats provided in CY 2019. They project that there will be 1,061,586 seats to the USA, 0.7% fewer than the number of seats offered to the USA in 2022.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.

Belize received 25,620 stopover visitors in November 2022, 35.3% more than the 18,946 visitors received in October.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 25,620 stopover visitors in November 2022, up 35.2% from the 18,946 stopover visitors received in October 2022.
Belize received 22,848 stopover visitors in November 2021.
The 25,620 stopover visitors received in November 2022 were 65.7% of the 38,981 stopover visitors received in November 2019.
Belize received 15,522 stopover arrivals from the USA in November 2022, 4,561 from Europe, 1,928 from Canada and 345 from Mexico.
Belize received 29 cruise ship calls in November 2022 with 74,018 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 80.1%, from 184,702 stopover visitors in the first eleven months of 2021 to 332,628 in the first eleven months of 2022.
The 332,628 visitors received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 74.3% of the 447,493 received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 59.8% in the first eleven months of 2022, from 154,849 in 2021 to 247,451 in the same eleven months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 3,494 stopover visitors in the first eleven months of 2021 to 13,298 visitors in the same eleven months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 5,836 stopovers in the first eleven months of 2021 to 31,661 visitors in the same eleven months of 2022.
Belize received 516,803 cruise visitors in the first eleven months of 2022, 49.4% of the 1,046,118 cruise visitors received in the first eleven months of 2019.

Dubai received 1,280,000 international visitors in October 2022, a 28.0% increase in visitors compared with September 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 28.0% increase in the number of international visitors in October 2022, growing from 1,000,000 visitors in September 2022 to 1,280,000 in October 2022.
Dubai received 1,030,000 international visitors in October 2021.
The 1,280,000 visitors received in October 2022 was 9.9% fewer than the 1,420,000 international visitors received in October 2019.
The number one source market in October was India with 198,000 visitors, followed by the United Kingdom with 112,000 visitors and Oman with 73,000 visitors.
In the first ten months of 2022 Dubai received 11,400,000 international visitors, 133.6% more than the 4,880,000 visitors received in the first ten months of 2021, and 84.4% of the 13,500,000 visitors received in the first ten months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first ten months of 2022 was India which generated 1,438,000 visitors, 12.6% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 1,124,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 933,000 visitors.
As of October 2022, Dubai had 597 hotels offering 118,944 hotel rooms and 193 apartment hotels offering 25,793 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 71.0% in the first ten months of 2022 with an ADR of US$137.87 and a RevPar of US$98.64 The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 77.0%.
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Curacao reports it received 44,058 stopover arrivals in November 2022, 1.9% fewer than the 44,914 received in October 2022.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 1.9% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in November, falling from 44,914 stopovers received in October 2022 to 44,058 stopovers received in November 2022.
The 44,058 stopovers received in November 2022 were 15.9% more than the 38,159 stopovers received in November 2019.
Curaçao received 37,453 stopover visitors in November 2021.
Curacao received 18,715 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in November 2022 and 9,369 stopovers from the USA, 42.5% and 21.3% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received 41 cruise ship calls with 85,924 cruise visitors in November 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 29 calls with 41,280 passengers in November of 2021. The 85,924 cruise visitors received in November 2022 were 93.2% of the 92,235 received in November 2019.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 99.6% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 222,723 visitors in 2021 to 444,634 visitors in the same eleven months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 61.2%, growing from 136,320 visitors during the first eleven months of 2021, to 219,696 in the same eleven months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 152.6% during the first eleven months, growing from 32,868 in 2021 to 83,017 in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 444,634 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 was 6.1% more than the 419,149 stopovers received in the same eleven months of 2019. The 219,696 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first eleven months of 2022 was 25.1% more than the 175,559 received from the Netherlands in the first eleven months of 2019 while the 83,017 stopovers received from the USA in the first eleven months of 2022 was 25.0% more than the 66,399 received in the first eleven months of 2019.
Stopover visitors stayed, on average, 9.5 nights in the first eleven months of 2022, up 7.4% from the 8.9 nights average stay achieved in the first eleven months of 2019.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Curacao received 240 cruise ship calls which brought in 437,570 cruise passengers, 64.2% of the 681,079 cruise visitors brought in the same eleven months of 2019.
 
Mauritius reports it received 106,905 stopover visitors in November 2022, 8.9%, fewer than the 117,323 stopovers received in October 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 106,905 total stopover arrivals in November 2022, 8.9% fewer than the 117,323 stopovers received in October 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 31,676 visitors from France in November 2022, 29.6% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 13,703 visitors, 12.8% of the total for the month. Germany generated 11,716 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020 and reopened its borders to international travel as of November 1st 2021, consequently receiving 65,922 stopovers in November 2021.
The 106,905 arrivals received in November 2022 were 83.0% of the 128,730 stopovers received in November 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 129,816 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 862,560 in the first eleven months of this year. The number one source market in the first eleven months of 2022 was France with 206,435 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 126,887 stopovers, and Germany with 89,737 stopovers. These three markets together generated 49.0% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 1,231,390 stopovers through the first eleven months of 2019 with the total received during the first eleven months of 2022 being 70.0% of this total.
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Los Cabos Airport Is Preparing For A Record-Breaking 2023 
Cabo Sun | December 11, 2022
As a very busy year for Los Cabos International Airport comes to a close, the airport is already preparing for a record-breaking 2023.  Nearly 8 million passengers are expected to fly into the airport for vacations in Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo next year.  This represents an increase in passengers of about 10 percent compared to this year, which has also been a record-breaking year for tourism in Los Cabos. 
As Los Cabos becomes more and more popular, the expansions that are taking place at the airport become even more important and they are not done expanding yet.  The project to expand Los Cabos International Airport began back in 2018 but was delayed during the Covid pandemic.  Now, since work on the airport has begun again there have been some much-needed additions added that will help deal with the growing traffic. 
Work on the airport started with the new construction of Terminal 3 and it too is scheduled to be completed by next year.  In addition, work is being done on the existing Terminal 2, including the addition of nine more gates that will significantly help organize airport activity.  The completion of both of these parts of the bigger overall project are being made possible due to an investment of more than $13 million. 
Additional gates have already been added to Terminal 2 and there will be more to come, along with unknown updates to Terminal 1 as well.  In the end, there is expected to be a total of 19 gates in Terminal 2, nine of which will have bridges to board the airplanes.  The other 10 gates will require boarding from the tarmac but will still help deal with the growing airplane traffic at the airport. 
By the end of 2022, Los Cabos will have served more than 7 million tourists at its international airport.  Many of these visitors come from the United States because the warm weather beach destination is so close in proximity.  This geographical closeness means a lot of flight availability, fairly inexpensive airline tickets, and from at least half of the country, pretty short flights as well. 
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What's the outlook for Hawaii travel in 2023?
By Christine Hitt  Travel Weekly Dec 12, 2022
As 2022 wraps up, the data is coming in on how Hawaii's visitor numbers have recovered since the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest report from the state's department of business, economic development and tourism states, "Hawaii will welcome 9.3 million visitors in 2022," which is a visitor recovery of 89.2%, according to Eugene Tian, the department's chief economist. To be fully recovered, it would mean the total visitors have reached 2019 numbers of 10.4 million.
When looking at the individual regions, it gives a different perspective. 
"The recovery coming from the U.S. market is over 100%; for the Japan market, the recovery by the end of the year is about 12%; for the Canadian market, it's about 68.3%; and other international is lacking," Tian said. "In fact, next year in 2023, the U.S. will still be leading the market and will be more than 2022 and it will be a new historical high."
The department has already forecasted that the recovery rate will be 94.5% in 2023 and 98.3% in 2024, based on the number of air seats available and the shape of the economy. Hawaii's visitor numbers will be fully recovered in 2025.
"In general, we will still be seeing the historical arrival of visitors and the spending in nominal terms from the U.S. mainland, and we'll still be seeing the lagging from the international market, especially from Japan," Tian said. "But the situation is getting better in 2023."

Aruba received 90,796 stopover visitors in November 2022, 0.9% more than the 90,001 stopovers received in November 2019.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 90,796 stopover arrivals in November 2022, 0.9% more than the 90,001 stopover visitors it received in November 2019.
Aruba received 79,870 stopover visitors in November 2021.
Compared with November 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 2.3%, growing from 66,767 arrivals in November 2019 to 68,314 arrivals in November 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 75.2% of all arrivals in November 2022 up from 74.2% in November 2019.
Arrivals from Canada increased by 13.0%, growing from 4,965 visitors in November 2019 to 5,609 stopovers in November 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands declined by 11.0%, falling from 4,037 in November 2019 to 3,593 in November of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in June 2021 and during November 2022 received 47 cruise ship calls and a total of 104,843 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in November 2022 declined by 8.4% compared with November 2019, falling from 46,049 visitors in 2019 to 42,184 in November 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.2% in November 2019 to 46.5% in November 2022.
26,042 visitors used timeshare accommodation in November 2022, 1.3% more than the 25,714 visitors who used such accommodation in November 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 28.6% in November 2019 to 28.7% in November 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 23.8% when comparing November 2019 with November 2022, growing from 18,238 visitors in 2019 to 22,570 in November 2022, with the share growing from 20.3% in 2019 to 24.9% in 2022.
In November 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 25,792 non-resident visitors, 28.4% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 20,552 non-resident visitors, 22.6% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 9,559 visitors with Delta bringing in 8,629 visitors. These four carriers brought in 71.1% of all visitors in November of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old fell from 43.6% in November 2019 to 43.3% in November 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older grew from 25.4% in November 2019 to 25.9% in November of this year.
In the first eleven months of 2022 Aruba saw a 38.2% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 717,014 visitors in the first eleven months of 2021 to 990,562 visitors in the first eleven months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 27.1% during the first eleven months, from 609,842 in the first eleven months of 2021 to 775,378 in the same eleven months of 2022.
The 990,562 stopover visitors received in the first eleven months of 2022 was 97.3% of the 1,018,231 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The 775,378 stopovers received from the USA in the first eleven months of 2022, was 1.5% more than the 763,658 stopovers received from the USA in the first eleven months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.0% in the first eleven months of 2019 to 78.3% in the same eleven months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first eleven months of 2022 declined by 13.4% compared with the same eleven months of 2019, falling from 526,288 visitors in 2019 to 455,536 in the same eleven months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.7% in the first eleven months of 2019 to 46.0% in the same eleven months of 2022.
In the first eleven months of 2022 293,898 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 7.3% more than the 273,886 visitors who used such accommodation in the first eleven months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.9% in 2019 to 29.7% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 10.6% when comparing the first eleven months of 2019 with the same eleven months of 2022, growing from 218,057 visitors in 2019 to 241,128 in 2022, with the share growing from 21.4% in 2019 to 24.3% in 2022.
In the first eleven months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 295,151 non-resident visitors, 29.8% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 201,602 non-resident visitors, 20.4% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 133,651 visitors with Delta bringing in 108,818 visitors. These four carriers brought in 74.6% of all visitors in the first eleven months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 45.2% in the first eleven months of 2019 to 46.7% in the same eleven months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 21.4% in 2019 to 20.6% in 2022.
Aruba received 260 cruise ship calls in the first eleven months of 2022 with 509,866 cruise passengers compared with the 276 calls cruise ships made in the same eleven months of 2019 with 704,947 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 23.2%, from 2,554 visitors  in 2019 to 1,961 visitors in 2022.
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AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved a 78.9% average room occupancy in November 2022, up 5.3 percentage points from the 73.6% achieved in October.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in November 2022 was 78.9%, 5.3 percentage points higher than the 73.6% achieved in October 2022.
Aruba’s hotels achieved a 71.3% average room occupancy in November 2021.
Average occupancy in November 2022 was 5.0 percentage points lower than the 83.9% average room occupancy achieved in November 2019.
ADR was $281.10 in November 2022, 11.9% higher than in November 2021, and 19.2% higher than in November 2019.
RevPar was $221.78 in November 2022, 24.0% higher than in November 2021 and 12.1% higher than in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 74.2% compared with 55.4% for the first eleven months of 2021. Again, compared with the first eleven months of 2021, ADR grew by 19.1% from $251.06 in 2021 to $298.90 in the first eleven months of 2022. RevPar grew by 59.5% from $139.02 in 2021 to $221.73 in the first eleven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eleven months of 2019 average room occupancy was 10.4 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 10.9%, higher and revpar was 2.7% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,360 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 87% in November 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 83% for December, 82% for January 2023, 84% for February, and 82% for 2023 overall.
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U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations decreased by 9.4% in September 2022 compared to August.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for September 2022.

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations decreased by 9.4% in September 2022, falling from 7,610,285 trips in August 2022 to 6,893,367 trips in September 2022.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean decreased by 34.4%, falling from 811,806 trips in August 2022 to 532,902 trips in September 2022.
• 410,160 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in September of 2021.
• The 532,902 trips taken to the Caribbean in September 2022 were 26.5% more than the 756,533 trips taken to the Caribbean in September 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased from 5.5% in September 2019 to 7.7% in September 2022.
• Trips to Europe increased by 14.5% in September, growing from 1,632,791 trips in August 2022 to 1,869,621 trips in September 2022. Trips to Europe were 27.1% of trips taken by US citizens in September 2022.
• The 1,869,621 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in September 2022 were 94.6% of the 1,976,641 trips taken to Europe in September 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 27.3%, growing from 946,978 trips in August 2022 to 1,205,525 trips in September 2022.
• The 1,205,525 trips were 245% more than the 490,925 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in September 2019.
• The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 6.5% in September 2019 to 17.5% in September 2022.

Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
In the first nine months of 2022:

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 75.9% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 33.8 million trips in the first nine months of 2021 to 59.4 million trips in the same nine months of 2022.
• The 59,407,565 total international trips taken in the first nine months of 2022 were 78.6% of the 75,543,117 trips taken in the first nine months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 50.5% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 4,601,011 trips in 2021, to 6,923,652 trips in the first nine months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 13.6% for the first nine months of 2021 to 11.7% in 2022.
• The 6,923,652 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first nine months of 2022 were 93.7% of the 7,386,926 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first nine months of 2019.
• Trips to Europe grew from 3,375,380 trips in the first nine months of 2021 to 12,073,202 trips in the same nine months of 2022. The 12,073,202 trips taken in 2022 were 79.8% of the 15,127,258 trips taken to Europe in the first nine months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 42.2%, from 7,029,002 trips in the first nine months of 2021 to 9,995,432 in the same nine months of 2022. The 9,995,432 trips were 31.7% more than the 7,592,007 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first nine months of 2019.
• This segment’s share of all trips fell from 20.8% in the first nine months of 2021 to 16.8% in the same nine months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 10.0% share seen in the first nine months of 2019.

​Saint Lucia received 25,382 stopovers in October 2022, 30.0% more than the 19,527 stopovers received in September.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 30.0% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in October 2022, growing from 19,527 stopovers in September 2022 to 25,382 stopovers in October 2022.
Saint Lucia received 8,946 cruise visitors in October. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in July 2021. And Saint Lucia received 2,552 visitors in October 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia received 20,545 stopover arrivals in October 2021.
The 25,382 stopovers received in October 2022 were 94.3% of the 26,923 stopovers received in October 2019.
Saint Lucia received 13,082 stopover arrivals from the USA in October 2022, which comprised 51.5% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 6,408 visitors from the United Kingdom in October 2022.
Through the first ten months of 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 97.0% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 145,932 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 287,456 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 43.1%, from 121,348 in the first ten months of 2021 to 173,657 in the same ten months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 17,956 in the first ten months of 2021 to 66,890 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
The 287,456 stopovers received in 2022 were 82.8% of the 347,254 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 179,114 cruise visitors in the first ten months of 2022 compared with 569,201 received in the first ten months of 2019 and received 14,928 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 50,955 who arrived by yacht in the first ten months of 2019.

Seychelles received 26,900 tourist arrivals in November 2022, 23.5% fewer than the 35,158 arrivals received in October.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 23.5% decline in visitor arrivals in November 2022, falling from 35,158 arrivals received in October 2022 to 26,900 arrivals in November 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 26,900 arrivals, 26,869 were stopover visitors and 31 were transit visitors.
Seychelles received 27,140 tourist arrivals in November 2021.
The 26,900 visitor arrivals received in November 2022 were 77.9% of the 34,511 arrivals received in November 2019.
The number one source market in November 2022 was Germany which generated 4,170 visitors (15.5% of the total for the month) followed by France, with 3,973 visitors (13.4%).
In the first eleven months of 2022 Seychelles saw a 91.5% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 158,377 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2021 to 303,262 arrivals in the first eleven months of 2022. The 303,262 stopovers received in the first eleven months of 2022 were 87.8% of the 345,294 received in the first eleven months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first eleven months of 2022 was France which generated 42,079 visitors, 13.9% of all visitor arrivals for those first eleven months, followed by Germany, which generated 41,740 visitors, 13.8% of the overall total. Russia generated 27,132 visitors in the same eleven months with the bulk of those arrivals coming in January and February.

Costa Rica received 137,099 stopover arrivals in October 2022, 12.2% more than the 122,188 stopovers received in September.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 137,099 stopovers in October 2022, 12.2% more than the 122,188 stopovers received in September 2022.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in June 2021. Costa Rica received 100,102 stopovers in October 2021.
The 137,099 stopovers received in October 2022 were 73.9% of the 185,599 stopovers received in October 2019.
Costa Rica received 65,195 stopovers from the USA in October 2022, 47.6% of the overall total, and 18,515 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 29.3% in October 2019 to 13.5% in October 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 92.6% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 978,676 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 1,884,548 stopovers in the first ten months of 2022. The 1,884,548 stopover visitors were 73.4% of the 2,566,443 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 67.5% in the first ten months of 2022, from 633,227 stopovers in 2021 to 1,060,441 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 179.8%, growing from 53,706 in the first ten months of 2021 to 150,244 in the same ten months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 64.7% in the first ten months of 2021 to 56.3% in the first ten months of 2022.
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Cancun saw a 15.8% increase in international air passenger movements in November 2022 compared with October.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 15.8% increase in international passenger movements in November 2022, growing from 1,404,465 movements in October 2022 to 1,626,692 movements in November 2022. Domestic passenger movements decreased by 4.2%, falling from 1,010,502 passenger movements in October 2022 to 968,149 movements in November 2022.
The 1,626,692 international passenger movements were 16.2% more than the 1,399,489 handled in November 2021 and were also 25.8% more than the 1,293,394 passengers handled in November 2019.
And while the 968,149 domestic passenger movements were 16.8% more than the 829,239 handled in November 2021 they were also 29.5% more than the 747,872 domestic passengers handled in November 2019.
In the first eleven months of 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 53.0%, growing from 11,603,123 movements in 2021 to 17,752,996 movements in the first eleven months of 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 17.6%, growing from 8,210,706 movements in the first eleven months of 2021 to 9,655,376 in the same eleven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eleven months of 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in 2022 was 18.5% more than the 2019 total, growing from 14,976,125 movements in 2019 to 17,752,996 movements in the first eleven months of 2022, while the volume of 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 17.6% more than the 2019 total, growing from 8,210,706 movements in the first eleven months of 2019 to 9,655,376 in the same eleven months of 2022.
In the first eleven months of 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 64.8% of all passenger movements, up from 58.6% in 2021, and up slightly from the 64.6% achieved in the first eleven months of 2019.

San Juan International Airport handled 788,702 domestic passenger movements in November 2022, 2.1% more than the 772,164 handled in November 2021.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw a 2.1% increase in domestic passenger traffic in November 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, growing from 772,164 domestic passenger movements in November 2021 to 788,702 domestic passenger movements in November 2022.
The 788,702 domestic passenger movements handled in November 2022 were 12.7% more than the 700,055 domestic movements handled in November 2019.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, increased by 27.7%, growing from 61,104 passenger movements in November 2021 to 78,016 passenger movements in November 2022.
The 78,016 international passenger movements seen in November 2022 were 2.1% fewer than the 79,670 international passenger movements handled in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 2.6%, from 8,283,897 in 2021 to 8,496,512 in the first eleven months of 2022. International passenger movements increased by 70.8% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 478,386 passenger movements in 2021 to 817,034 passengers in the first eleven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eleven months of 2019 domestic passenger movements were up by 11.6%, while international movements decreased by 9.2%.
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Los Cabos handled 369,900 international passenger movements in November 2022, 14.8% more than the 322,100 handled in October.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 14.8% increase in international passenger traffic in November 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 322,100 international passenger movements in October 2022 to 369,900 international passenger movements in November 2022.
Los Cabos handled 361,600 international passenger movements in November 2021.
The 369,900 international passenger movements handled in November 2022 were 15.2% more than the 321,100 international movements handled in November 2019.
Domestic traffic decreased by 1.4%, falling from 231,400 passenger movements in October 2022 to 228,300 passenger movements in November 2022. Los Cabos handled 188,000 domestic passenger movements in November 2021.
The 228,300 domestic passenger movements seen in November 2022 were 50.2% more than the 152,000 domestic passenger movements handled in November 2019.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 27.3%, from 3,145,000 in 2021 to 4,002,600 in the first eleven months of 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 27.8% in the first eleven months of 2022, growing from 1,822,600 passengers in 2021 to 2,329,500 passengers in the first eleven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eleven months of 2019 international passenger movements were up by 20.1%, while domestic movements increased by 32.8%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 375,900 total passenger movements in November 2022, 18.5% more than the 317,100 handled in October.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 18.5% in November 2022, growing from 317,100 total movements in October 2022 to 375,900 movements in November 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in November 2022 was 8.0% more than the 348,200 passengers handled in November 2019.
Montego Bay Airport handled 271,000 passenger movements in November 2021.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 74.9%, from 2,240,600 in 2021 to 3,918,700 in the first eleven months of 2022. The 2022 total of 3,918,700 movements was 92.0% of the 4,258,100 passenger movements handled in the first eleven months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 131,700 total passenger movements in November 2022, a decrease of 6.5% compared with October.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport decrease by 6.5% in November 2022, falling from 140,900 total movements in October 2022 to 131,700 total passenger movements in November 2022. The 131,700 passengers handled in November 2022 were 98.9% of the 133,200 handled in November 2019.
Kingston Airport handled 78,000 passengers in November 2021.
Through the first eleven months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 93.8%, from 721,800 in 2021 to 1,398,900 in the first eleven months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.
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The USVI received 67,379 cruise visitors in October 2022.
According to the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of cruise visitor arrivals increase from 21,575 cruise visitors from 8 calls in October 2021 to 67,379 cruise visitors from 23 calls in October 2022. The USVI reopened to cruise ships in July 2021.
The USVI received 703,644 cruise passengers from 282 calls during the first ten months of 2022. This was 64.5% of the 1,091,208 cruise visitors received in the first ten months of 2019.

The United States Virgin Islands received 31,333 air arrivals in September 2022, 18.9% fewer than the 38,622 air visitors received in September 2021.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 18.9% in September 2022, falling from 38,622 air arrivals in September 2021 to 31,333 air arrivals in September of this year.
The 31,333 air arrivals received in September 2022 were just 1.0% more than the 31,027 received in September 2019.
Through the first nine months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 0.7%, from 625,677 air arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 630,166 air arrivals in the first nine months of 2022.
The 630,166 arrivals received in the first nine months of 2022 were 27.1% higher than the 495,955 air arrivals received in the first nine months of 2019.

San Juan International Airport handled 666,465 domestic passenger movements in October 2022, 4.8% fewer than the 699,807 handled in October 2021.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw a 4.8% decline in domestic passenger traffic in October 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, falling from 699,807 domestic passenger movements in October 2021 to 666,465 domestic passenger movements in October 2022.
The 666,465 domestic passenger movements handled in October 2022 were 12.0% more than the 595,129 domestic movements handled in October 2019.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, increased by 21.5%, growing from 53,816 passenger movements in October 2021 to 65,370 passenger movements in October 2022.
The 65,370 international passenger movements seen in October 2022 were 2.9% more than the 63,503 international passenger movements handled in October 2019.
Through the first ten months of 2022 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 2.6%, from 7,511,733 in 2021 to 7,707,810 in the first ten months of 2022. International passenger movements increased by 77.1% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 417,282 passenger movements in 2021 to 739,018 passengers in the first ten months of 2022.
By comparison with the first ten months of 2019 domestic passenger movements were up by 11.5%, while international movements decreased by 9.9%.

​Mexico received 1,585,463 international air arrivals in October 2022, up 21.8% compared with September.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,585,463 international air arrivals in October 2022, up 21.8% compared with the 1,302,039 arrivals received in September 2022.
Mexico received 1,347,272 international visitors in October 2021.
The 1,585,463 international air arrivals received in October 2022 were 17.4% more than the 1,350,001 international air visitors received in October 2019.
Mexico received 942,429 air visitors from the USA in October 2022, 59.4% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (114,342 visitors) with Colombia third largest (85,518 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 692,202 international air visitor arrivals in October 2022, 43.7% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 159,186 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 101,986  international air visitors.
In the first ten months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 56.4%, from 10,644,849 arrivals in 2021 to 16,644,533 arrivals in the same ten months of 2022. The 16,644,533 arrivals received in the first ten months of 2022 were 7.2% higher than the 15,520,400 international arrivals received in the first ten months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 32.7% in the first ten months of 2022, from 8,030,770 air arrivals in 2021 to 10,654,479 air arrivals in the first ten months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 194,524 in 2021 to 1,210,397 in the first ten months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 58.7% increase in international air arrivals in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 4,895,374 arrivals in 2021 to 7,767,294 arrivals in the first ten months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 30.8% increase growing from 1,346,241 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,761,115 air arrivals in the first ten months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw a 70.7% increase, growing from 762,934 international arrivals in 2021 to 1,302,105 international arrivals in the same ten months of 2022.

Hotels in the Dominican Republic have achieved an average room occupancy of 71.5% in the first ten months of 2022.
According to Asonahores the Dominican Republic’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 66.1% in October 2022, 5.0% percentage points higher than the 61.1% achieved in October 2021 and 11.0% percentage points less than the 55.1% achieved in October 2019
The Dominican Republic’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 71.5% in the first ten months of 2022, 24.8% percentage points higher than the 46.7% achieved in the first ten months of 2021 but 1.2% percentage points less than the 72.7% achieved in the first ten months of 2019.
According to Asonahores Punta Cana’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 70.5% in October 2022, 6.4% percentage points higher than the 64.1% achieved in October 2021 and 12.1% percentage points more than the 58.4% achieved in October 2019.
Punta Cana’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 77.5% in the first ten months of 2022, 30.1% percentage points higher than the 47.4% achieved in the first ten months of 2021 and 0.2% percentage points more than the 77.3% achieved in the first ten months of 2019.
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IATA Reports October Passenger Demand & Forward Bookings Signal Continuing to Recover.
IATA reports that total air traffic in October 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 44.6% compared to October 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 74.2% of October 2019 levels.
Domestic traffic for October 2022 slipped 0.8% compared to the year-ago period as stringent COVID-related travel restrictions in China dampened global figures. Total October 2022 domestic traffic was at 77.9% of the October 2019 level. Domestic forward bookings remain at around 70% of pre-pandemic level.
International traffic climbed 102.4% versus October 2021. October 2022 international RPKs reached 72.1% of October 2019 levels with all markets recording strong growth, led by Asia-Pacific. Forward bookings for international travel increased to around 75% of pre-pandemic levels, following the re-openings announced by multiple Asian economies.
“Traditionally, by October we are into the slower autumn travel season in the Northern Hemisphere, so it is highly reassuring to see demand and forward bookings continuing to be so strong. It bodes well for the coming winter season and the ongoing recovery,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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The Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 91,733 departing passengers in October 2022, 2.4% more than the 89,586 departing passengers handled in September.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in October 2022 91,733 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 2.4% more than the 89,586 RGPs who departed in September 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport handled 75,773 RGPs in October 2021.
The airport also handled 11,629 passengers in transit in October 2022 as well as 4 transferring passengers.
In October 2022 63,047 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 2,651 pax to Canada, 7,962 pax to Europe, 12,353 pax to Latin America and 5,720 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 118,480 outbound seats in October 2022, 0.4% fewer than the 118,985 seats provided in October 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in October experienced an average load factor of 93.8%, 82.0% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged a 91.8% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for October was 88.0%.
In the first ten months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 998,284 RGPs, up 42.6% compared with the 700,148 handled in the first ten months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 29.7%, from 579,832 RGPs in the first ten months of 2021 to 752,038 in the same ten months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 2,069 RGPs in 2021 to 19,030 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 55.8%, from 52,458 RGPS in the first ten months of 2021 to 81,733 RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 23.1% through the first ten months of 2022 from 1,075,322 available seats in the first ten months of 2021 to 1,323,446 seats in the same ten months of 2022. The 1,323,446 seats available in 2022 were 92.8% of the 1,426,228 seats available in the first ten months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 70.9% in the first ten months of 2021 to 83.7% in the same ten months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 70.1% in the first ten months of 2021 to 85.5% in the same ten months of 2022.
On November 29th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,599,929 available seats for CY 2022, 94.1% of the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,069,603 seats to the USA, 0.4% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled to the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,209,502 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,358,589 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.5% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019 and the 2023 projected total is 12.3% higher than the total for 2022 and 7.3% higher than the 2019 total.
The AAA also projects that the airport will provide 1,716,192 available seats in 2023, 7.3% more than the 1,599,929 seats provided in 2022 and 0.9% more than the 1,701,062 seats provided in CY 2019. They project that there will be 1,061,586 seats to the USA, 0.7% fewer than the number of seats offered to the USA in 2022.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.
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Punta Cana received 285,599 tourists in October 2022, 16.5% more than the 245,240 tourists who visited in September.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 285,599 stopovers in October 2022, 16.5% more than the 245,240 stopovers received in September 2022 and 61.5% more than the 176,890 stopovers received in October 2019.
Punta Cana received 211,890 visitors in October 2021.
Punta Cana received 93,213 stopover arrivals from the USA in October 2022, 32.6% of all tourist arrivals.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 19.4% in October 2022 from the 78,053 arrivals received from the USA in October 2021. Traffic from Canada increased from 19,514 arrivals in October 2021 to 39,170 arrivals in October 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in the month of February 2022 to just 138 arrivals in October 2022.
Also, in October traffic from France grew from 10,582 stopovers in October 2021 to 13,202 in October this year while traffic from Germany grew from 12,550 arrivals in October 2021 to 13,163 in October 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 92 in October 2021 to 15,223 in October 2022. Colombia generated 22,833 stopovers in October 2022 while Argentina generated 13,477.
In October 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 58.1% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 47.8% in October 2021.
During the first ten months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 115.0% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,567,128 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 3,368,770 non-resident arrivals in the first ten months of 2022. The total for 2022 was 12.7% more than the 2,990,218 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 46.4% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 943,928 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 1,381,787 arrivals in the same ten months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 49,787 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 421,823 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 1,286 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 160,104 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 136.0% from Colombia, was up 160.4% from Germany, up 105.4% from Spain and up 224.4% from France.
In the first ten months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.8% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 41.8% in the same ten months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 491,793 tourists in October 2022, 14.3% more than the 430,131 tourists who visited in September.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 491,793 stopovers in October 2022, 14.3% more than the 430,131 stopovers received in September 2022 and 32.1% more than the 372,205 stopovers received in October 2019.
The Dominican Republic was severely impacted by the landfall of Category One Hurricane Fiona which passed through the island on September 19th 2022.
The Dominican Republic received 443,016 stopover visitors in October 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 153,613 stopover arrivals from the USA in October 2022, 31.2% of all tourist arrivals. The Dominican Republic received 136,996 arrivals from the USA in October 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 22,057 arrivals in October 2021 to 46,823 arrivals in October 2022.
As well, traffic from France grew from 13,966 stopovers in October 2021 to 15,230 in October this year while traffic from Germany fell from 16,399 arrivals in October 2021 to 16,365 in October 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 339 in October 2021 to 15,717 in October 2022. Colombia generated 29,337 stopovers in October 2022 while Argentina generated 15,281
In October 2022 18.6% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 21.1% of all arrivals in October 2021.
In the first ten months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 55.5% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 3,746,761 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 5,826,086 non-resident arrivals in the same ten months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 28.3% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 1,690,531 arrivals in 2021 to 2,169,259 arrivals from the USA in the first ten months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 57,073 in the first ten months of 2021 to 507,310 in the same ten months of 2022.
The 5,826,086 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 were 8.7% more than the 5,359,903 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
In the first ten months of 2022 18.5% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 28.1% in the same ten months of 2021.

Las Vegas received 3,639,200 visitors in October 2022, 8.5% more than the 3,355,200 received in September 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors increase by 8.5% in October 2022, growing from 3,355,200 arrivals in September 2022 to 3,639,200 in October of 2022.
Las Vegas received 3,390,200 visitors in October 2021.
The 3,639,200 arrivals received in October 2022 were 99.2% of the 3,668,100 arrivals received in October 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 150,867 open hotel rooms in October 2022 (up 0.2% compared with October 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 87.7% (81.6% in October 2021), an ADR of $209.89 and a RevPar of $184.07.
Gaming revenue increased by 4.2% in October 2022, growing from $1.061 billion in September 2022 to $1.105 billion in October 2022. Gaming revenue in October 2022 was 25.7% higher than the $879.04 million in gaming revenue generated in October 2019.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 23.5% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 26,113,900 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 32,256,600 visitors in the same ten months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first ten months of 2022 was 90.7% of the 35,548,500 received in the same ten months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 79.0% in the first ten months of 2022 (up 13.8 percentage points compared with the first ten months of 2021), an ADR of $168.82 (up 26.4% compared with the same ten months of 2021) and a RevPar of $133.37 up 53.1%, also compared with the same ten months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 13.8% in the first ten months of 2022, from $9.284 billion in 2021 to $10.567 billion in the same ten months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first ten months of 2022 was 22.4% higher than the $8.633 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first ten months of 2019.
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Hawaii reports the state received 726,059 out-of-state tourists in October 2022, 5.0% more than the 691,794 received in September.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 5.0% in October 2022, growing from 691,794 air arrivals received in September 2022 to 726,059 arrivals in October 2022.
The 726,059 arrivals received in October 2022 were 93.1% of the 779,909 arrivals received in October 2019. However, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in October 2022 was $1.525 billion, up 15.1% compared with the $1.325 billion spent by visitors in October 2019.
Hawaii received 550,785 out of state visitors in October 2021.
Hawaii received 586,541 air arrivals from the mainland USA in October 2022, 80.8% of the overall total, 31,573 arrivals from Canada, 24,339 arrivals from Japan and 83,605 air arrivals from other markets.
Hawaii also received 31,123 cruise visitors in October 2022.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 21.0% from $1,664.30 in October 2019 to $2,014.20 in October 2022.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 39.9% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 5,410,902 air arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 7,568,856 air arrivals in the same ten months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first ten months of 2022 were 88.9% of the 8,509,490 received in the first ten months of 2019.
For the first ten months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $15,875.3 million, 8.5% more than the $14,627.20 million spent in the first ten months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.5% from $1,695.90 per person per trip in the first ten months of 2019 to $2,077.70 per person per trip in the first ten months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 24.4% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 5,226,189 air arrivals in 2021 to 6,502,129 air arrivals in the same ten months of 2022, from Japan grew from 14,311 stopovers in 2021 to 134,873 in the first ten months of 2022 and grew from 28,466 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 296,822 in the same ten months of 2022.
Hawaii received 71,780 cruise visitors in the first ten months of 2022.
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International Tourism Back To 63% Of Pre-Pandemic Levels In January-September 2022
UNWTO | 23rd November 2022
According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, an estimated 700 million tourists travelled internationally between January and September, more than double (+133%) the number recorded for the same period in 2021.
This equates to 63% of 2019 levels and puts the sector on course to reach 65% of its pre-pandemic levels this year, in line with UNWTO scenarios. Results were boosted by strong pent-up demand, improved confidence levels and the lifting of restrictions in an increasing number of destinations.
The Caribbean recovered to 82% of the equivalent YTD 2019 total.
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Hawaii’s hotels report a 1.5 percentage point decrease in average room occupancy in October 2022 compared with September 2022, falling from 73.5% to 72.0%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy declined by 1.5 percentage points from 73.5% in September 2022 to 72.0% in October of this year. ADR grew by 0.3% from $337.33 in September to $338.24 in October, while revpar fell by 1.8%, from $247.86 in September 2022 to $243.46 in October of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 54.8% in October 2021.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 1.5%, growing from $411.6 million in September 2022 to $417.9 million in October 2022. Room demand increased by 1.3%, growing from 1,220,100 room nights in September 2022 to 1,235,400 room nights in October 2022 while room supply increased by 3.4% from 1,660,500 available room nights in September to 1,716,400 in October.
For the first ten months of 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 18.5 percentage points from 55.7% in 2021 to 74.2% in the first ten months of 2022. ADR increased by 15.6% from $317.19 in 2021 to $366.81 in 2022 while revpar grew by 54.0%, from $176.64 in the first ten months of 2021 to $272.07 in the first ten months of this year.
By comparison with the first ten months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 81.1% in 2019 to 74.2% in 2022. ADR, however, improved by 31.9% from $278.03 in the first ten months of 2019 to $366.81 in the same ten months of 2022, while RevPar grew by 20.7%, from $225.43 in 2019 to $272.07 in the same ten months of 2022.
In the first ten months of 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 60.0% from $2.869 billion in 2021 to $4.589 billion in the first ten months of this year. Total rooms revenues for the first ten months of 2022 were 24.1% higher than for the same ten months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 38.3%, from 9,045,600 room nights in 2021 to 12,511,900 in the same ten months of 2022. Room supply grew by 3.8% to 16,868,400 available room nights also in the first ten months.
Room demand in 2022 was 5.9% lower than for the same ten months of 2019 while room supply was 2.8% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For October, the survey included 154 properties representing 46,546 rooms, or 84.1 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. The October survey included 77 properties on O‘ahu representing 28,211 rooms (92.9%); 42 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,994 rooms (74.8%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,889 rooms (69.4%); and 19 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,452 rooms (75.0%).

Belize received 18,946 stopover visitors in October 2022, 6.5% more than the 17,783 visitors received in September.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 18,946 stopover visitors in October 2022, up 6.5% from the 17,783 stopover visitors received in September 2022.
Belize received 13,574 stopover visitors in October 2021.
The country reopened to visitors arriving by air as of October 1st 2020 and to visitors arriving by land and sea on July 31st 2021.
The 18,946 stopover visitors received in October 2022 were 74.8% of the 25,341 stopover visitors received in October 2019.
Belize received 11,990 stopover arrivals from the USA in October 2022, 2,435 from Europe, 727 from Canada and 450 from Mexico.
Belize received 11 cruise ship calls in October 2022 with 27,880 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first ten months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 89.6%, from 161,858 stopover visitors in the first ten months of 2021 to 306,903 in the first ten months of 2022.
The 306,903 visitors received in the first ten months of 2022 were 75.1% of the 408,512 received in the first ten months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 70.0% in the first ten months of 2022, from 136,457 in 2021 to 231,926 in the same ten months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 2,209 stopover visitors in the first ten months of 2021 to 11,370 visitors in the same ten months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 4,521 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 27,095 visitors in the same ten months of 2022.
Belize received 442,785 cruise visitors in the first ten months of 2022, 47.0% of the 942,140 cruise visitors received in the first ten months of 2019.
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Barbados received 33,750 stopovers in October 2022, 22.4% more than the 27,579 stopovers received in September.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 22.4% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in October 2022, growing from the 27,579 stopover arrivals in September 2022 to 33,750 stopover arrivals in October 2022.
Barbados received 11,638 cruise visitors in October 2022 from 9 cruise ship calls.
Barbados received 18,504 stopover arrivals in October 2021.
The 33,750 stopovers received in October 2022 were 64.4% of the 52,400 stopovers received in October 2019.
Barbados received 12,359 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in October 2022, 36.6% of all arrivals, and 10,090 stopovers from the USA 29.9% of all stopovers for October.
Through the first ten months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 81,728 in the first ten months of 2021 to 337,144 in the first ten months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the U.K. increased from 30,712 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 133,459 in the same ten months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the USA increased from 26,453 in the first ten months of 2021 to 104,603 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
The 337,144 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 were 58.8% of the 573,281 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
Barbados received 189,808 cruise visitors in the first ten months of 2022 compared with 586,275 received in the same ten months of 2019. 
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Cuba announces it received 123,588 international stopover visitors in October 2022,  19.6% more than the 103,358 received in September.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 19.6% in October 2022, growing from 103,358 international stopover arrivals in September 2022 to 123,588 arrivals in October 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 23,212 international stopovers in October 2021.
The 123,588 stopovers received in October 2022 were 52.5% of the 235,613 international visitors received in October 2019.
Cuba received 34,782 stopovers from Canada in October 2022, 28.1% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to 3,796 this October.
In the first ten months of 2022 Cuba saw a 487.6% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 203,947 arrivals in 2021 to 1,198,402 stopovers this year. The 1,198,402 arrivals were 33.6% of the 3,563,005 international visitors received in the first ten months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 14,617 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021, to 359,034 in the same ten months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 30.0% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 121,956 in the first ten months of 2021 to 42,679 in the same ten months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 266,264 of all international visitors arriving in the first ten months of 2022, up from 21,482 in the same ten months of 2021.
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Expedia Group's 2023 Travel Trends Highlight The 'No-Normal'
Donald Wood | Travel Pulse | November 17, 2022
The Expedia Group unveiled a comprehensive view of traveler trends across its brands and the broader travel industry in 2023.
According to data from Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, as well as industry professionals across 17 countries, 40 percent of travelers were inspired by streamed movies and TV shows, while another 31 percent were influenced by social media.
In the United States, 68 percent of travelers considered visiting a destination after seeing it in a show or movie, with 61 percent following through and booking a trip. With travel restrictions lifted, most destinations seeing the most significant increases are where art and culture festivities are back in full swing.
Travelers are looking to save money, with 32 percent of Americans saying they’re more concerned with value than ever before and interest in three-star hotels growing around 20 percent globally. In 2023, data shows that 40 percent of U.S. travelers plan to stay in 1-3-star hotels and 34 percent plan to book a vacation with added value inclusions, such as free parking or breakfast.
Additionally, 43 percent are using cooking to cut down on costs.
“When we look at Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo data together, we see a detailed and robust picture of travel into 2023,” Expedia Brands president Jon Gieselman said.
“We’re seeing a surge in trips to culture capitals, a new wave of interest in wellness retreats and a spike in demand for outdoor destinations beyond just beaches and mountains, not a new normal but people branching out to unexpected trends in what we’re calling the ‘no normal’,” Gieselman continued.
According to Hotels.com, 53 percent of Americans are seeking wellness breaks but cite boredom with traditional retreats and want to experience something more exciting in 2023. Millennials are the top drivers of this, as 60 percent of 25-34-year-olds seek alternative wellness getaways.
Demand for Vrbo homes in western U.S. destinations increased by more than 30 percent from September 2021 to August 2022, as travelers seek to reconnect with nature. Plus, 42 percent of travelers find inspiration in outdoorsy destinations and mind-blowing landscapes.
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Los Cabos Expected to Close 2022 with a Historic 20% Growth in Visitation
With a Renewed Focus on Wellness and Sustainability, Los Cabos Gears Up to Welcome More Than 3.3 Million International Visitors Expected to Travel Before the End of Year
LOS CABOS, Mexico, Nov. 17, 2022 
Today, Los Cabos Tourism Board announced an unprecedented growth in tourism arrivals expected by the end of 2022 with more than 3.3 million visitors – a more than 20 percent projected growth when compared to 2021 and a 32% compounded growth over the last five years with 800 thousand more passengers than 2017. Los Cabos' steady year-over-year growth is the result of the destination's flexible business model, the high quality of services, its safety and security approach, and integration of its private and public sectors to strengthen international promotional efforts.
Los Cabos has over 1.3 million seats from the United States scheduled for the next six months (October 2022 to March 2023), representing a 35.2% increase when compared to the same period in 2019. In the Canadian market, the destination also projected 19.3% more available seats for the next six months, and in the domestic market the increase in available seats is 95.8%, both compared to the same period in 2019.
With a renewed vision, dynamic marketing programs, and an updated tourism offering, Los Cabos is reinvigorating its wellness and sustainability offering. The destination has been a long-standing pioneer in luxury travel, personalized service, and unique travel experiences. With the pandemic, Los Cabos took on another challenge to reimagine travel by centering the local community and the environment at the core of everything they do. From optimizing resources dedicated to investment in hotel infrastructure and protecting its natural ecosystems to creating community programs and ensuring the equal growth, development, and wellbeing of the local population, Los Cabos is focusing on its new chapter as a sustainable destination.
"As Los Cabos' tourism is on a steep rise, it is not lost on us that our destination increasingly requires more care and protection," said Rodrigo Esponda, Managing Director of the Los Cabos Tourism Board. "We take a holistic approach in the sustainability of Los Cabos. Sustainability is no longer about small practices we are implementing, but rather a guiding principle on the type of destination we want to be as we care for the environment, community, culture and more."
Across the destination, hotels, suppliers and providers are committed to the environment, integrating the mindset of the sustainability focus into their business model.
Los Cabos' holistic sustainability approach is showcased in its:
Breadth of Nature-Centered Experiences:
An increased number of travelers continue to select Los Cabos as a destination not only to disconnect from their busy lives, but also to re-connect with nature given the range of authentic experiences available.
The community of Santiago is developing eco-tourism program offerings in partnership with local ranches. 
At Rancho Cacachilas, locals are invited to learn new skills like how to bee keep and make cheese from goats' milk – both ancient skills they are trying to reintroduce into communities.
Beckoning Real Estate:
With more than 1,500 new hotel rooms expected from 2022-2024, Los Cabos continues to attract renowned hotel brands.
New hotel developments are focused on sustainability and regeneration practices that will continue to advance Los Cabos into sustainability at every single touch point.
Upcoming openings include Rancho Pescadero of the Unbound Collection expected to fully open by the end of 2022, St. Regis Los Cabos at Quivira in 2023, Four Seasons Resort and Residences Cabo San Lucas at Cabo del Sol in late 2023, Park Hyatt in 2023, Vidanta East Cape in 2024, Amanvari in 2024, Soho House & Beach Club in Q3 and Q4 of 2024, and Casa Vela in 2023.
Blossoming Gastronomy:
In Los Cabos, most gastronomic experiences are born out of a desire to source locally and highlight the heritage of the area without sacrificing taste.
Baja Brewing Company is one of the first breweries in Mexico and creates seasonal flavors based on what is being grown in the region.
San José del Cabo's 23400 District draws visitors into the history of the destination with authentic food and flavors across restaurants, food trucks and open-air stalls.
To allow tourists to virtually experience Los Cabos even before they travel, the destination is launching an immersive aerial-to-ground experience featuring 3D effects and ambient sounds that emulate the destination's real-life environment. Los Cabos is the first destination in Latin America to implement this immersive technology with the goal of capturing new audiences that are ready to adopt Web3 and Metaverse technologies. 
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IATA Reports September Passenger Demand Stays Strong
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced passenger data for September 2022 showing that the recovery in air travel continues to be strong.
Total traffic in September 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 57.0% compared to September 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 73.8% of September 2019 levels.
Domestic traffic for September 2022 was up 6.9% compared to the year-ago period. Total September 2022 domestic traffic was at 81% of the September 2019 level.
International traffic climbed 122.2% versus September 2021. September 2022 international RPKs reached 69.9% of September 2019 levels. All markets reported strong growth, led by Asia-Pacific.
“Even with economic and geopolitical uncertainties, the demand for air transport continues to recover ground. The outlier is still China with its pursuit of a zero COVID strategy keeping borders largely closed and creating a demand roller coaster ride for its domestic market, with September being down 46.4% on the previous year. That is in sharp contrast to the rest of Asia-Pacific, which, despite China’s dismal performance, posted a 464.8% increase for international traffic compared to the year-ago period,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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​Florida received a total of 35,115,000 tourist arrivals in the third quarter of 2022, 6.9% more than the 32,847,000 received in the third quarter of 2021.
Visit Florida’s Research Department recently announced that the state of Florida saw a 6.9% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the third quarter of 2022, with total arrivals growing from 32,847,000 in the third quarter of 2021 to 35,115,000 arrivals in the third quarter of 2022.
The 35,115,000 visitors was 8.0% higher than the 32,500,000 visitors received in the third quarter of 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 3.0%, growing from 31,707,000 arrivals in the third quarter of 2021 to 32,645,000 in the third quarter of 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 99,000 visitors in the third quarter of 2021 to 539,000 in the same quarter of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 85.5%, from 1,041,000 arrivals in the third quarter of 2021 to 1,931,000 in the same three months of 2022.
Florida saw a 15.3% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the first nine months of 2022, with total arrivals growing from 90,510,000 in the first nine months of 2021 to 104,375,000 arrivals in the first nine months of 2022.
The 104,375,000 visitors was 4.1% higher than the 100,267,000 visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 11.4%, growing from 87,763,000 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 97,752,000 in the first nine months of 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 179,000 visitors in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,621,000 in the same nine months of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 94.8%, from 2,568,000 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 5,002,000 in the same nine months of 2022.
All of the above numbers are preliminary and subject to change.

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved a 73.6% average room occupancy in October 2022, up 1.7 percentage points from the 71.9% achieved in September.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in October 2022 was 73.6%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the 71.9% achieved in September 2022.
Aruba’s hotels achieved a 60.1% average room occupancy in October 2021.
Average occupancy in October 2022 was 2.7 percentage points lower than the 76.3% average room occupancy achieved in October 2019.
ADR was $270.42 in October 2022, 13.7% higher than in October 2021, and 23.3% higher than in October 2019.
RevPar was $199.04 in October 2022, 39.2% higher than in October 2021 and 19.0% higher than in October 2019.
Through the first ten months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 73.7% compared with 53.8% for the first ten months of 2021. Again, compared with the first ten months of 2021, ADR grew by 19.8% from $251.05 in 2021 to $300.79 in the first ten months of 2022. RevPar grew by 64.2% from $135.03 in 2021 to $221.73 in the first ten months of 2022.
By comparison with the first ten months of 2019 average room occupancy was 11.0 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 10.2%, higher and revpar was 4.0% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,360 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 85% in October 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 74% for November, 81% for December, 82% for January 2023, and 75% for 2022 overall.

Jamaica received 218,849 stopover visitors in August 2022, 15.8% fewer than the 259,908 stopovers received in July.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 218,849 stopover arrivals in August 2022, 15.8% fewer than the 259,908 stopovers received in July 2022 and 1.9% more than 214,780 stopovers received in August 2019.
Jamaica received 153,560 stopover arrivals in August 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 166,246 in August 2022, that is 9.0% more than the 152,458 stopovers received from the USA in August 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 76.0% of all stopover arrivals received in August 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 81,753 cruise passengers during August 2022.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Jamaica saw an 89.6% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 869,781 stopover arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 1,649,253 arrivals in the same eight months of 2022.
The 1,649,253 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 were 87.9% of the 1,875,925 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 56.0% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 805,607 arrivals in 2021 to 1,256,580 arrivals in the same eight months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 92.6% in the first eight months of 2021 to 76.2% in the same eight months of 2022.
Jamaica received 443,266 cruise passengers through August 2022, 58.2% fewer than the 1,061,518 cruise visitors received in the same eight months of 2019.
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New study finds just one scenario for tourism that meets climate ‘net-zero’ goal, given current growth forecasts  
With global tourism set to double in size by 2050 from 2019 levels, current strategies that rely solely on carbon offsetting, technological efficiencies and biofuels are woefully inadequate. Such measures alone will fail to meet the Paris Agreement-aligned goals to halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. 
Instead, global policymakers and climate planners attending COP27 are urged to combine all those measures with significant investments and incentives for bringing forth the greenest forms of transport, and limits on the most polluting. This is the only scenario that can provide comparable levels of revenue and opportunities to travel in a decarbonizing world.
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Seychelles received 35,158 tourist arrivals in October 2022, 43.9% more than the 24,427 arrivals received in September.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 43.9% increase in visitor arrivals in October 2022, growing from 24,427 arrivals received in September 2022 to 35,158 arrivals in October 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 35,158 arrivals, 34,789 were stopover visitors and 369 were transit visitors.
Seychelles received 27,140 tourist arrivals in October 2021.
The 35,158 visitor arrivals received in October 2022 were 97.8% of the 35,960 arrivals received in October 2019.
The number one source market in October 2022 was Germany which generated 6,293 visitors (17.9% of the total for the month) followed by France, with 5,177 visitors (14.7%).
In the first ten months of 2022 Seychelles saw a 106.3% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 133,966 arrivals in the first ten months of 2021 to 276,362 arrivals in the first ten months of 2022. The 276,362 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 were 88.9% of the 310,783 received in the first ten months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first ten months of 2022 was France which generated 38,160 visitors, 13.8% of all visitor arrivals for those first ten months, followed by Germany, which generated 37,570 visitors, 13.6% of the overall total. Russia generated 24,083 visitors in the same ten months with the bulk of those arrivals coming in January and February.

​Curacao reports it received 44,914 stopover arrivals in October 2022, 20.6% more than the 37,229 received in September 2022.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 20.6% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in October, growing from 37,229 stopovers received in September 2022 to 44,914 stopovers received in October 2022.
The 44,914 stopovers received in October 2022 were 30.1% more than the 34,526 stopovers received in October 2019.
Curaçao received 35,023 stopover visitors in October 2021.
Curacao received 20,102 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in October 2022 and 9,166 stopovers from the USA, 44.8% and 20.4% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received 14 cruise ship calls with 36,819 cruise visitors in October 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 8 calls with 12,605 passengers in October of 2021. The 36,819 cruise visitors received in October 2022 were 78.0% of the 47,223 received in October 2019.
In the first ten months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 116.2% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 185,270 visitors in 2021 to 400,576 visitors in the same ten months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 77.4%, growing from 113,295 visitors during the first ten months of 2021, to 200,982 in the same ten months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 159.2% during the first ten months, growing from 28,411 in 2021 to 73,647 in the same ten months of 2022.
The 400,576 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 was 5.1% more than the 380,988 stopovers received in the same ten months of 2019. The 200,982 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first ten months of 2022 was 26.6% more than the 158,756 received from the Netherlands in the first ten months of 2019.
In the first ten months of 2022 Curacao received 199 cruise ship calls which brought 351,646 cruise passengers, 59.7% of the 588,844 cruise visitors brought in the same ten months of 2019.
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Trinidad and Tobago received 21,146 stopover visitors in October 2022, 9.8% more than the 19,264 stopover visitors received in September.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 21,146 stopover visitors in October 2022, an increase of 9.8% compared with the 19,264 stopovers received in September 2022.
Trinidad received 19,775 stopover visitors in October 2022 with Tobago receiving 1,371.
Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 6,107 stopover visitors in October 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 21,146 stopover visitors received in October 2022 were 72.3% of the 29,267 stopover visitors received in October 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 10,822 stopover arrivals from the USA in October 2022, 2,765 from Europe, 2,205 from Canada and 5,354 from the rest of the world.
In the first ten months of 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 18,825 in the first ten months of 2021 to 176,539 in the first ten months of 2022.
The 176,539 visitors received in 2022 were 54.8% of the 322,241 received in the first ten months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 9,762 in the first ten months of 2021 to 88,877 in the same ten months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 1,855 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021, to 19,514 in the same ten months of 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 2,564 in 2021 to 24,024 in the same ten months of 2022.
Trinidad received 168,936 stopovers in the first ten months of 2022, 95.7% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 7,603 stopovers.

The Maldives reports it received 153,737 stopover visitor arrivals in October 2022, 8.2% more than the 142,066 received in October 2021.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 153,737 stopover visitors in October 2022, 8.2% more than the 142,066 stopovers received in October 2021.
The 153,737 stopovers received in October 2022 were 8.3% more than the 141,928 stopovers received in October 2019.
In October 2022 India was the number one source market and generated 21,750 stopovers (14.1% share of the overall total) while Russia was number two with 20,639 stopovers (13.4% share). The Germany was number three with 15,572 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 32.1% from 899 in October 2021 to 1,188 establishments in October 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 14.5% from 51,740 in October 2021 to 59,260 in October 2022.
During October 2022 overall average room occupancy fell by 10.5 percentage points from 63.7% in October 2021 to 53.2% for October 2022.
Of the 1,188 establishments in operation 166 were resorts which offered 40,751 beds. These resorts achieved a 62.8% average room occupancy during October 2022 down from 75.4% for October 2021.
The Maldives saw a 32.7% increase in total arrivals in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 1,012,928 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 1,344,357 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022 with India (190,350 visitors) and Russia (164,186 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these ten months.
The 1,344,357 visitors received in the first ten months of 2022 was 96.5% of the 1,393,618 visitors received in the first ten months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 44.7% from an average of 752 in the first ten months of 2021 to an average of 1,088 establishments in the same ten months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 17.6% from 48,217 in the first ten months of 2021 to 56,693 in the same ten months of this year.
Through the end of October 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 4.9 percentage points from 53.4% in 2021 to 58.3% for the first ten months of this year.
Of the 1,088 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 39,576 beds. These resorts achieved a 70.0% average room occupancy through the first ten months of 2022 up from 61.3% for the first ten months of 2021. Through the first ten months of 2021 there was an average of 153 resorts in operation offering 35,998 beds.
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Aruba received 83,404 stopover visitors in October 2022, 5.1% more than the 79,389 stopovers received in October 2019.
According to Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 83,404 stopover arrivals in October 2022, 5.1% more than the 79,389 stopover visitors it received in October 2019.
Aruba received 70,056 stopover visitors in October 2021.
Compared with October 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 4.7%, growing from 58,432 arrivals in October 2019 to 61,156 arrivals in October 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 73.3% of all arrivals in October 2022 down from 73.6% in October 2019.
Arrivals from Canada increased by 16.4%, growing from 3,034 visitors in October 2019 to 3,544 stopovers in October 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands increased by 4.2%, growing from 3,614 in October 2019 to 3,767 in October of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in June 2021 and during October 2022 received 18 cruise ship calls and a total of 46,344 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in October 2022 declined by 2.0% compared with October 2019, falling from 39,495 visitors in 2019 to 38,705 in October 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 49.8% in October 2019 to 46.4% in October 2022.
25,984 visitors used timeshare accommodation in October 2022, 26.0% more than the 20,626 visitors who used such accommodation in October 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.0% in October 2019 to 31.2% in October 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – decreased by 2.9% when comparing October 2019 with October 2022, falling from 19,268 visitors in 2019 to 18,715 in October 2022, with the share falling from 24.3% in 2019 to 22.4% in 2022.
In October 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 24,705 non-resident visitors, 29.6% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 12,974 non-resident visitors, 15.6% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 10,136 visitors with Delta bringing in 9,103 visitors. These four carriers brought in 68.2% of all visitors in October of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old fell from 45.1% in October 2019 to 42.6% in October 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older grew from 26.5% in October 2019 to 29.3% in October of this year.
In the first ten months of 2022 Aruba saw a 41.2% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 637,144 visitors in the first ten months of 2021 to 899,766 visitors in the first ten months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 29.2% during the first ten months, from 547,203 in the first ten months of 2021 to 707,064 in the same ten months of 2022.
The 899,766 stopover visitors received in the first ten months of 2022 was 96.9% of the 928,320 stopovers received in the first ten months of 2019.
The 707,064 stopovers received from the USA in the first ten months of 2022, was 1.5% more than the 696,891 stopovers received from the USA in the first ten months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.1% in the first ten months of 2019 to 78.6% in the same ten months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first ten months of 2022 declined by 13.9% compared with the same ten months of 2019, falling from 480,239 visitors in 2019 to 413,352 in the same ten months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.7% in the first ten months of 2019 to 45.9% in the same ten months of 2022.
In the first ten months of 2022 267,856 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 7.9% more than the 248,172 visitors who used such accommodation in the first ten months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.7% in 2019 to 29.8% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 9.4% when comparing the first ten months of 2019 with the same ten months of 2022, growing from 199,819 visitors in 2019 to 218,558 in 2022, with the share growing from 21.5% in 2019 to 24.3% in 2022.
In the first ten months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 269,359 non-resident visitors, 29.9% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 181,050 non-resident visitors, 20.1% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 124,092 visitors with Delta bringing in 100,189 visitors. These four carriers brought in 74.9% of all visitors in the first ten months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 45.4% in the first ten months of 2019 to 47.1% in the same ten months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 21.1% in 2019 to 20.0% in 2022.
Aruba received 213 cruise ship calls in the first ten months of 2022 with 405,023 cruise passengers compared with the 234 calls cruise ships made in the same ten months of 2019 with 608,181 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 26.9%, from 2,599 visitors  in 2019 to 1,901 visitors in 2022.

Antigua and Barbuda received 21,474 stopovers in October 2022, 44.4% more than the 14,871 received in October 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 44.4% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in October 2022, growing from 14,871 stopovers received in October 2021 to 21,474 stopovers this October.
The 21,474 stopovers received In October 2022 were 7.5% more than the 19,971 stopovers Antigua received in October 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 9,610 stopover visitors from the USA in October 2022 which comprised 44.8% of all stopovers received in October. Antigua also received 6,702 stopover visitors from the U.K. in October, 31.2% of all stopovers received during that month.
Antigua also received 7,592 cruise visitors in October 2022 and 117 visitors who arrived by yacht.
Through the first ten months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 68.0% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 125,671 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 211,180 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 26.0%, from 82,454 stopovers in the first ten months of 2021 to 103,893 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 31,779 in the first ten months of 2021 to 65,355 stopovers in the same ten months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first ten months of 2022 was 89.4% of the 236,199 stopovers received in the same ten months of 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 205,228 cruise visitors in the first ten months of 2022, 39.2% of the 524,005 cruise visitors received in the same ten months of 2019. The destination also received 8,460 visitors who arrived by yacht, 57.4% of the 14,728 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first ten months of 2019.

Bermuda announces it received 13,154 air visitor arrivals in September 2022, 68.5% of the 19,202 air visitors received in September 2019.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority recently released its third quarter 2022 tourist arrival numbers and announced that Bermuda received 13,154 air visitors in September 2022, 68.5% of the 19,202 air arrivals received in September 2019.
Bermuda received 39,586 cruise visitors in September 2022 77.1% of the 51,341 cruise visitors received in September 2019. And Bermuda received 16 visitors arriving by yacht in September 2022, 59.3% of the 27 visitors arriving by yacht in September 2019.
The 9,841 air visitors received from the USA in September 2022 was 74.8% of all air visitors handled that month but was 68.3% of the 14,412 air visitors received from the USA in September 2019.
During the first nine months of 2022 Bermuda received 113,020 air visitors, 102.3% more than the 55,864 visitors who arrived by air in the first nine months of 2021 but just 52.0% of the 217,147 visitors who arrived by air in the first nine months of 2019.
Bermuda received 84,338 air visitors from the USA in the first nine months of 2022, 50.9% of the 165,722 air visitors received from the USA in the first nine months of 2019.
The Ministry of Tourism reports that the airlines serving Bermuda achieved an average load factor of 69.1% in the first nine months of 2022, up 15.7 percentage points from the 53.4% average load factor achieved in the first nine months of 2021. The airlines had an average load factor of 75.4% in the first nine months of 2019.
The Ministry further reports that in the first nine months of 2022 air visitors spent an estimated US$211,199,344, up 126.1% compared with the US$93,411,312 spent in the first nine months of 2021. The  2022 YTD expenditure was 64.5% of the US$327,514,134 spent by air visitors in the first nine months of 2019.
The Ministry noted that per person spending for air leisure visitors was up by 23.9% growing from US$1,508 per person in 2019 to US$1,869 per person in 2022. The average length of stay year to date (7.51 nights) was 1.1% shorter than in 2019.
Bermuda’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 53.9% in the first nine months of 2022, up 14.6 percentage points from the 39.3% achieved in the first nine months of 2021 but 10.4 percentage points lower than the 64.3% achieved in the first nine months of 2019. 67.7% of all visitors to Bermuda stayed in hotel accommodation in the first nine months of 2022, down from the 72.3% who did so in the first nine months of 2019.
Bermuda received 302,777 visitors who arrived by cruise ship in the first nine months of 2022, 67.7% of the 447,026 who arrived by cruise ship in the first nine months of 2019.
Bermuda received 4,102 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first nine months of 2022 212.4% more than the 1,313 who arrived by yacht in the first nine months of 2021, and 57.5% more than the 2,605 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first nine months of 2019.
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Cancun saw a 12.0% increase in international air passenger movements in October 2022 compared with September.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 12.0% increase in international passenger movements in October 2022, growing from 1,254,056 movements in September 2022 to 1,404,465 movements in October 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 9.0%, growing from 927,307 passenger movements in September 2022 to 1,010,502 movements in October 2022.
The 1,404,465 international passenger movements were 23.1% more than the 1,141,366 handled in October 2021 and were also 38.8% more than the 1,011,657 passengers handled in October 2019.
And while the 1,010,502 domestic passenger movements were 20.4% more than the 839,056 handled in October 2021 they were also 33.2% more than the 758,707 domestic passengers handled in October 2019.
In the first ten months of 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 58.0%, growing from 10,203,634 movements in 2021 to 16,126,304 movements in the first ten months of 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 17.7%, growing from 7,381,467 movements in the first ten months of 2021 to 8,687,227 in the same ten months of 2022.
By comparison with the first ten months of 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in 2022 was 17.9% more than the 2019 total, growing from 13,682,731 movements in 2019 to 16,126,304 movements in the first ten months of 2022, while the volume of 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 16.4% more than the 2019 total, growing from 7,462,241 movements in the first ten months of 2019 to 8,687,227 in the same ten months of 2022.
In the first ten months of 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 65.0% of all passenger movements, up from 58.0% in 2021, and up slightly from the 64.7% achieved in the first ten months of 2019.
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Dubai received 1,000,000 international visitors in September 2022, a 2.0% decrease in visitors compared with August 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 2.0% decrease in the number of international visitors in September 2022, falling from 1,020,000 visitors in August 2022 to 1,000,000 in September 2022.
Dubai received 620,000 international visitors in September 2021.
The 1,000,000 visitors received in September 2022 was 18.0% fewer than the 1,220,000 international visitors received in September 2019.
The number one source market in September was India with 152,000 visitors, followed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 84,000 visitors and Oman with 68,000 visitors.
In the first nine months of 2022 Dubai received 10,120,000 international visitors, 162.9% more than the 3,850,000 visitors received in the first nine months of 2021, and 83.8% of the 12,080,000 visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first nine months of 2022 was India which generated 1,240,000 visitors, 12.3% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 1,051,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 907,000 visitors.
As of September 2022, Dubai had 591 hotels offering 116,978 hotel rooms and 193 apartment hotels offering 25,804 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 71.0% in the first nine months of 2022 with an ADR of US$134.88 and a RevPar of US$95.64 The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 77.0%.

U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations decreased by 17.1% in August 2022 compared to July.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for August 2022.
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations decreased by 17.1% in August 2022, falling from 9,177,301 trips in July 2022 to 7,610,285 trips in August 2022.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean decreased by 20.6%, falling from 1,022,177 trips in July 2022 to 811,806 trips in August 2022.
650,496 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in August of 2021.
The 811,806 trips taken to the Caribbean in August 2022 were 7.3% more than the 756,533 trips taken to the Caribbean in August 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased from 8.0% in August 2019 to 10.7% in August 2022.
Trips to Europe decreased by 20.3% in August, falling from 2,047,835 trips in July 2022 to 1,632,791 trips in August 2022. Trips to Europe were 21.5% of trips taken by US citizens in August 2022.
The 1,632,791 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in August 2022 were 83.7% of the 1,950,485 trips taken to Europe in August 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air decreased by 26.9%, falling from 1,295,562 trips in July 2022 to 946,978 trips in August 2022.
The 946,978 trips were 30.4% more than the 726,111 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in August 2019.
The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 7.7% in August 2019 to 12.4% in August 2022.
Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
 
In the first eight months of 2022:
The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 78.0% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 29.5 million trips in the first eight months of 2021 to 52.5 million trips in the same eight months of 2022.
The 52,514,198 total international trips taken in the first eight months of 2022 were 77.3% of the 67,949,965 trips taken in the first eight months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 52.5% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 4,190,851 trips in 2021, to 6,390,750 trips in the first eight months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 14.2% in 2021 to 12.2% in 2022.
The 6,390,750 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first eight months of 2022 were 91.7% of the 6,965,753 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first eight months of 2019.
Trips to Europe grew from 2,620,893 trips in the first eight months of 2021 to 10,203,581 trips in the same eight months of 2022. The 10,203,581 trips taken in 2022 were 77.6% of the 13,150,617 trips taken to Europe in the first eight months of 2019.
The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 38.3%, from 6,354,306 trips in the first eight months of 2021 to 8,789,907 in the same eight months of 2022. The 8,789,907 trips were 23.8% more than the 7,101,082 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first eight months of 2019.
This segment’s share of all trips fell from 21.5% in the first eight months of 2021 to 16.7% in the same eight months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 10.5% share seen in the first eight months of 2019.

Los Cabos handled 322,100 international passenger movements in October 2022, 27.8% more than the 252,100 handled in September.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 27.8% increase in international passenger traffic in October 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 252,100 international passenger movements in September 2022 to 322,100 international passenger movements in October 2022.
Los Cabos handled 321,300 international passenger movements in October 2021.
The 322,100 international passenger movements handled in October 2022 were 31.0% more than the 245,800 international movements handled in October 2019.
Domestic traffic increased by 10.9%, growing from 208,600 passenger movements in September 2022 to 231,400 passenger movements in October 2022. Los Cabos handled 189,200 domestic passenger movements in October 2021.
The 231,400 domestic passenger movements seen in October 2022 were 49.7% more than the 154,600 domestic passenger movements handled in October 2019.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 30.5%, from 2,783,400 in 2021 to 3,632,700 in the first ten months of 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 28.5% in the first ten months of 2022, growing from 1,634,600 passengers in 2021 to 2,101,200 passengers in the first ten months of 2022.
By comparison with the first ten months of 2019 international passenger movements were up by 20.7%, while domestic movements increased by 31.1%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 317,100 total passenger movements in October2022, 5.7% more than the 300,600 handled in September.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 5.7% in October 2022, growing from 300,600 total movements in September 2022 to 317,100 movements in October2022.
The total number of passenger movements in October2022 was 10.2% more than the 287,800 passengers handled in October 2019.
Montego Bay Airport handled 208,700 passenger movements in October2021.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 79.9%, from 1,969,600 in 2021 to 3,542,900 in the first ten months of 2022. The 2022 total of 3,542,900 movements was 90.6% of the 3,910,000 passenger movements handled in the first ten months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 140,900 total passenger movements in October 2022, an increase of 2.9% compared with September.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 2.9% in October 2022, growing from 137,000 total movements in September 2022 to 140,900 total passenger movements in October2022. The airport handled 101,400 passengers in October 2019.
Kingston Airport handled 77,900 passengers in October 2021.
Through the first ten months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 97.3%, from 643,900 in 2021 to 1,270,300 in the first ten months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Saint Lucia received 19,527 stopovers in September 2022, 40.1% fewer than the 32,618 stopovers received in August.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 40.1% decline in stopover visitor arrivals in September 2022, falling from 32,618 stopovers in August 2022 to 19,527 stopovers in September 2022.
Saint Lucia received 4,902 cruise visitors in September. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in July 2021. And Saint Lucia received 935 visitors in September 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia received 14,896 stopover arrivals in September 2021.
The 19,527 stopovers received in September 2022 were 90.4% of the 21,608 stopovers received in September 2019.
Saint Lucia received 11,204 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, which comprised 57.4% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 4,406 visitors from the United Kingdom in September 2022.
Through the first nine months of 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 109.0% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 125,387 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 262,074 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 47.7%, from 108,703 in the first nine months of 2021 to 160,575 in the same nine months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 11,850 in the first nine months of 2021 to 60,482 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The 262,074 stopovers received in 2022 were 81.8% of the 320,331 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 170,168 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022 compared with 528,413 received in the first nine months of 2019 and received 12,376 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 48,555 who arrived in the first nine months of 2019.

Mauritius reports it received 117,323 stopover visitors in October 2022, 44.7%, more than the 81,087 stopovers received in September 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 117,323 total stopover arrivals in October 2022, 44.7% more than the 81,087 stopovers received in September 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 29,393 visitors from France in October 2022, 25.1% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 17,021 visitors, 14.5% of the total for the month. Germany generated 11,677 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020 and reopened its borders to international travel as of October 1st 2021, consequently receiving just 54,434 stopovers in October 2021.
The 117,323 arrivals received in October 2022 were 90.9% of the 129,018 stopovers received in October 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 63,894 in the first ten months of 2021 to 755,655 in the first ten months of this year. The number one source market in the first ten months of 2022 was France with 174,759 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 113,184 stopovers, and Germany with 78,021 stopovers. These three markets together generated 48.4% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 1,102,660 stopovers through the first ten months of 2019 with the total received during the first ten months of 2022 being 68.5% of this total.
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Mexico received 1,302,039 international air arrivals in September 2022, down 20.1% compared with August.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,302,039 international air arrivals in September 2022, down 20.1% compared with the 1,629,070 arrivals received in August 2022.
Mexico received 1,043,856 international visitors in September 2021.
The 1,302,039 international air arrivals received in September 2022 were 23.6% more than the 1,053,640 international air visitors received in September 2019.
Mexico received 787,821 air visitors from the USA in September 2022, 60.4% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (72,929 visitors) with Colombia third largest (66,121 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 593,099 international air visitor arrivals in September 2022, 45.6% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 124,050 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 74,169  international air visitors.
In the first nine months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 61.0%, from 9,353,876 arrivals in 2021 to 15,059,070 arrivals in the same nine months of 2022. The 15,059,070 arrivals received in the first nine months of 2022 were 6.0% higher than the 14,201,709 international arrivals received in the first nine months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 35.5% in the first nine months of 2022, from 7,167,750 air arrivals in 2021 to 9,712,050 air arrivals in the first nine months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 129,612 in 2021 to 1,096,055 in the first nine months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 63.3% increase in international air arrivals in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 4,331,550 arrivals in 2021 to 7,075,092 arrivals in the first nine months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 35.0% increase growing from 1,187,039 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,601,929 air arrivals in the first nine months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw a 79.5% increase, growing from 668,481 international arrivals in 2021 to 1,200,119 international arrivals in the same nine months of 2022.
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Return of international travelers help push Las Vegas visitation back near pre-pandemic levels
By Bryan Horwath | Las Vegas Weekly | October 31, 2022
Visitation to Las Vegas is close to pre-COVID-19 levels, but it’s not there quite yet. That’s the outlook as Las Vegas tourism officials look to next year as 2022—which has by nearly all accounts been a successful stretch—winds down.
In September, close to 3.4 million people visited Las Vegas, up 14% from the same month in 2021 but down 3.5% from September 2019.
The barometer for the ongoing tourism comeback is 2019, because that was the last full year with no coronavirus-related disruption for visitation.
Though Las Vegas welcomed more than 32 million visitors in 2021, certain segments—including international travel and convention business—still track behind 2019 totals.
The sooner Las Vegas tourism officials can nudge the yearly visitation total back to—or above—42 million, the better for a city and region that rely heavily on leisure dollars.
“From a domestic standpoint, we’re over-recovered,” said Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “We’re not all the way recovered internationally, but that’s largely because of the slow recovery in Asia.”
In 2019, 14% of the roughly 42 million people—around 5.8 million—who visited Las Vegas were from a foreign country, according to the LVCVA.
Largely because of various sets of travel restrictions around the globe and attitudes about the spread of COVID-19, the percentage of domestic visitors to Las Vegas ballooned to 97% in 2021.
This year, more people have chosen to travel and more have been vaccinated against the coronavirus—in the United States, virtually everyone who wants to be vaccinated is vaccinated—which means Las Vegas should come close to the pre-pandemic figure of 42 million visitors.
Through September, Las Vegas attracted about 28.6 million visitors, so it will almost certainly blow past 32 million this year.
If it attracts, on average, 3 million tourists in October, November and December, Las Vegas would finish 2022 having welcomed more than 37 million visitors.
That would be about how many visitors came to the city in 2010.
On the air traffic side—about half of all visitors to Las Vegas arrive via airplane—Harry Reid International Airport set a passenger record in 2019, when it welcomed 51.5 million arriving and departing passengers.
Air travel to Las Vegas was down significantly in 2020 and 2021 but has roared back in 2022.
Through August, Harry Reid International has welcomed nearly 34 million arriving and departing passengers this year, which includes a record-breaking three-month period from June through August.
If the airport averages about 4.4 million passengers per month—it logged 4.6 million in August—it will reach 51.5 million for the year.
Rosemary Vassiliadis, director of aviation for Harry Reid International, said she believes the total air traveler figure for this year will get close to the 2019 number.
“We may get very close to what we had in 2019 at the end of this calendar year, but I believe next year, with more recovery going on, is going to be a big growth year for our town,” Vassiliadis said. “From an aviation standpoint, there were a lot of aircrafts that were taken out of service once the pandemic hit, and a lot of those will be back in service [next year]. It’s not easy to put an aircraft back in service.”
Like Hill, Vassiliadis said the demand for travel to Las Vegas hasn’t wavered.
The two tourism leaders were on hand this month for the Routes World 2022 trade show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
This year marked the first time since 2013 that Las Vegas hosted the global conference, which brings together officials from airlines, airports and tourism hot spots.
Hill said the event served as a good reminder to Las Vegas tourism officials that there are markets around the world that could be tapped into to help the city with its international travel recovery.
“Over the next 12 months or so, I think we will get back to 100%, internationally,” Hill said. “But we also see real growth opportunity internationally. It’s a big world out there. Part of what we’re working on is getting more flights directly to Las Vegas, which would make a big difference.”

​The Cayman Islands received 12,381 stopovers in September 2022, 44.5% fewer than the 22,293 stopovers received in August.
According to the Cayman Islands Tourism Authority, The Cayman Islands saw a 44.5% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in September 2022, falling from 22,293 stopovers received in August 2022 to 12,381 stopovers received in September 2022.
On September 26th 2022 Hurricane Ian passed close by the Cayman Islands.
The Cayman Islands also received 50,626 cruise visitors in September. The Cayman Islands reopened its ports to cruise ships on March 21st 2022.
The Cayman Islands closed its borders to international visitor arrivals on March 22nd 2020, with extremely limited access to the destination during much of 2021 and fully re-opened its borders as of November 2021. The Cayman Islands consequently received 682 stopover arrivals in September 2021.
The 12,381 stopovers received in September 2022 were 74.4% of the 16,640 stopovers received in September 2019.
The Cayman Islands received 9,804 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, which comprised 79.2% of all stopover arrivals during the month. The Cayman Islands also received 499 visitors from Canada and 587 visitors from the United Kingdom during that month.
The Cayman Islands saw the number of visitors grow from 6,634 in the first nine months of 2021 to 180,624 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 3,342 in the first nine months of 2021 to 147,597 in the same nine months of 2022. The number of stopovers from Canada grew from 490 in the first nine months of 2021 to 10,990 in the same nine months of 2022  while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 627 in the first nine months of 2021 to 7,483 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The 180,624 stopovers received in 2022 were 46.8% of the 386,290 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
The Cayman Islands has received 516,161 cruise visitors so far in 2022, 35.9% of the 1,436,686 cruise visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.

The USVI received 32,364 cruise visitors in September 2022.
According to the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of cruise visitor arrivals increase by 112.0% in September 2022, growing from 15,269 cruise visitors from 10 calls in September 2021 to 32,364 cruise visitors from 8 calls in September 2022. The USVI reopened to cruise ships in July 2021.
The USVI received 636,265 cruise passengers from 259 calls during the first nine months of 2022. This was 65.3% of the 974,700 cruise visitors received in the first nine months of 2019. 
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Punta Cana received 245,240 tourists in September 2022, 31.6% fewer than the 358,399 tourists who visited in August.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 245,240 stopovers in September 2022, 31.6% fewer than the 358,399 stopovers received in August 2022 but 59.4% more than the 153,841 stopovers received in September 2019.
The Punta Cana area of the Dominican Republic was severely impacted by the landfall of Category One Hurricane Fiona which passed through the Dominican Republic on September 19th 2022.
Punta Cana received 163,000 visitors in September 2021.
Punta Cana received 84,037 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, 34.3% of all tourist arrivals and 42.3% fewer than the 145,591 stopovers received in August 2022.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 12.1% in September 2022 from the 74,999 arrivals received from the USA in September 2021  Traffic from Canada increased from 9,670 arrivals in September 2021 to 24,615 arrivals in September 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in the month of February 2022 to just 135 arrivals in September 2022.
Also, in September traffic from France grew from 4,435 stopovers in September 2021 to 6,063 in September this year while traffic from Germany grew from 10,326 arrivals in September 2021 to 10,553 in September 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 134 in September 2021 to 16,110 in September 2022. Colombia generated 19,076 stopovers in September 2022 while Argentina generated 12,697.
In September 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.0% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 44.6% in September 2021.
During the first nine months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 127.5% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,355,238 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 3,083,171 non-resident arrivals in the first nine months of 2022. The total for 2022 was 9.6% more than the 2,813,328 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 48.8% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 865,875 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,288,574 arrivals in the same nine months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 30,273 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 382,653 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 1,194 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 144,871 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 144.4% from Colombia, was up 215.2% from Germany, up 116.0% from Spain and up 279.6% from France.
In the first nine months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.8% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 41.0% in the same nine months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 430,131 tourists in September 2022, 30.8% fewer than the 621,953 tourists who visited in August.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 430,131 stopovers in September 2022, 30.8% fewer than the 621,953 stopovers received in August 2022 but 32.9% more than the 323,662 stopovers received in September 2019.
The Dominican Republic was severely impacted by the landfall of Category One Hurricane Fiona which passed through the island on September 19th 2022.
The Dominican Republic received 365,540 stopover visitors in September 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 137,468 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, 32.0% of all tourist arrivals. The Dominican Republic received 135,632 arrivals from the USA in September 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 10,298 arrivals in September 2021 to  arrivals in September 2022.
As well, traffic from France grew from 5,768 stopovers in September 2021 to 6,964 in September this year while traffic from Germany grew from 12,444 arrivals in September 2021 to 13,148 in September 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 346 in September 2021 to 16,565 in September 2022. Colombia generated 24,518 stopovers in September 2022 while Argentina generated 14,501
In September 2022 20.6% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 24.1% of all arrivals in September 2021.
In the first nine months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 61.5% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 3,303,745 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 5,334,293 non-resident arrivals in the same nine months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 29.7% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 1,553,535 arrivals in 2021 to 2,015,646 arrivals from the USA in the first nine months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 35,016 in the first nine months of 2021 to 460,487 in the same nine months of 2022.
The 5,334,293 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 were 6.9% more than the 4,987,698 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
In the first nine months of 2022 18.5% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 29.0% in the same nine months of 2021.

Las Vegas received 3,355,200 visitors in September 2022, 5.2% more than the 3,190,600 received in August 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors increase by 5.2% in September 2022, growing from 3,190,600 arrivals in August 2022 to 3,355,200 in September of 2022.
Las Vegas received 2,935,600 visitors in September 2021.
The 3,355,200 arrivals received in September 2022 were 96.5% of the 3,475,900 arrivals received in September 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 150,856 open hotel rooms in September 2022 (up 0.2% compared with September 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 83.1% (73.0% in September 2021), an ADR of $187.18 and a RevPar of $155.50.
Gaming revenue increased by 3.6% in September 2022, growing from $1.025 billion in August 2022 to $1.060 billion in September 2022. Gaming revenue in September 2022 was 16.3% higher than the $912.19 million in gaming revenue generated in September 2019.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 25.9% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 22,723,700 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 28,617,400 visitors in the same nine months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first nine months of 2022 was 89.8% of the 31,880,400 received in the same nine months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 78.0% in the first nine months of 2022 (up 14.7 percentage points compared with the first nine months of 2021), an ADR of $163.59 (up 28.2% compared with the same nine months of 2021) and a RevPar of $127.60, up 58.0%, also compared with the same nine months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 15.0% in the first nine months of 2022, from $8.227 billion in 2021 to $9.462 billion in the same nine months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first nine months of 2022 was 22.0% higher than the $7.754 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first nine months of 2019.

Hawaii reports the state received 691,794 out-of-state tourists in September 2022, 16.6% fewer than the 829,699 received in August.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals decrease by 16.6% in September 2022, falling from 829,699 air arrivals received in August 2022 to 691,794 arrivals in September 2022.
The 691,794 arrivals received in September 2022 were 96.3% of the 718,042 arrivals received in September 2019. However, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in September 2022 was $1.476 billion, up 18.5% compared with the $1.246 billion spent by visitors in September 2019.
Hawaii received 504,586 out of state visitors in September 2021.
Hawaii received 566,110 air arrivals from the mainland USA in September 2022, 81.8% of the overall total, 20,960 arrivals from Canada, 24,092 arrivals from Japan and 80,632 air arrivals from other markets.
Hawaii also received 11,476 cruise visitors in September 2022.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 23.6% from $1,720.50 in September 2019 to $2,127.30 in September 2022.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 40.8% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 4,860,117 air arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 6,842,798 air arrivals in the same nine months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first nine months of 2022 were 88.5% of the 7,733,816 received in the first nine months of 2019.
For the first nine months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $14,353.7 million, 7.9% more than the $13,302.1 million spent in the first nine months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.6% from $1,699.10 per person per trip in the first nine months of 2019 to $2,083.70 per person per trip in the first nine months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 25.7% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 4,704,273 air arrivals in 2021 to 5,915,588 air arrivals in the same nine months of 2022, from Japan grew from 12,469 stopovers in 2021 to 110,534 in the first nine months of 2022 and grew from 18,500 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 265,250 in the same nine months of 2022.
Hawaii received 40,657 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022.
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Barbados received 27,579 stopovers in September 2022, 16.9% fewer than the 33,205 stopovers received in August.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 16.9% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in September 2022, falling from the 33,205 stopover arrivals in August 2022 to 27,579 stopover arrivals in September 2022.
Barbados received 2,281 cruise visitors in September 2022.
Barbados received 17,209 stopover arrivals in September 2021.
The 27,579 stopovers received in September 2022 were 74.8% of the 36,861 stopovers received in September 2019.
Barbados received 9,356 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in September 2022, 33.9% of all arrivals, and 9,791 stopovers from the USA 35.5% of all stopovers for September.
Through the first nine months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 63,224 in the first nine months of 2021 to 303,394 in the first nine months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the U.K. increased from 20,333 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 121,100 in the same nine months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the USA increased from 21,910 in the first nine months of 2021 to 94,513 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The 303,394 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 were 58.2% of the 520,881 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
Barbados received 178,170 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022 compared with 557,171 received in the same nine months of 2019. 
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The Maldives reports it received 111,986 stopover visitor arrivals in September 2022, 15.1% fewer than the 131,862 received in August.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 111,986 stopover visitors in September 2022, down 15.1% from the 131,862 stopovers received in August 2022.
The Maldives received 114,896 stopover visitors in September 2021.
The 111,986 stopovers received in September 2022 were 4.8% fewer than the 117,619 stopovers received in September 2019.
In September 2022 Russia was the number one source market and generated 20,341 stopovers (18.2% share of the overall total) while India was number two with 15,393 stopovers (13.7% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 8,853 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 33.8% from 885 in September 2021 to 1,184 establishments in September 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 14.6% from 51,084 in September 2021 to 58,521 in September 2022.
During September 2022 overall average room occupancy fell by 3.1 percentage points from 48.3% in September 2021 to 45.2% for September 2022.
Of the 1,184 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 40,053 beds. These resorts achieved a 54.1% average room occupancy during September 2022 up from 53.5% for September 2021.
The Maldives saw a 36.7% increase in total arrivals in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 870,862 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,190,620 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022 with India (168,600 visitors) and Russia (143,547 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these nine months.
The 1,190,620 visitors received in the first nine months of 2022 was 95.1% of the 1,251,690 visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 46.3% from an average of 736 in the first nine months of 2021 to an average of 1,077 establishments in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 17.9% from 47,826 in the first nine months of 2021 to 56,408 in the same nine months of this year.
Through the end of September 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 6.6 percentage points from 52.2% in 2021 to 58.8% for the first nine months of this year.
Of the 1,077 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 39,445 beds. These resorts achieved a 70.6% average room occupancy through the first nine months of 2022 up from 59.7% for the first nine months of 2021. Through the first nine months of 2021 there was an average of 152 resorts in operation offering 35,848 beds.

Hawaii’s hotels report a 3.6 percentage point decrease in average room occupancy in September 2022 compared with August 2022, falling from 77.1% to 73.5%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy declined by 3.6 percentage points from 77.1% in August 2022 to 73.5% in September of this year. ADR fell by 11.9% from $382.93 in August to $337.33 in September, while revpar fell by 16.1%, from $295.26 in August 2022 to $247.86 in September of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 55.2% in September 2021.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide declined by 19.2%, falling from $509.4 million in August 2022 to $411.6 million in September 2022. Room demand decreased by 8.3%, falling from 1,330,300 room nights in August 2022 to 1,220,100 room nights in September 2022 while room supply fell by 3.8% from 1,725,300 available room nights in August to 1,660,500 in September.
For the first nine months of 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 18.6 percentage points from 55.8% in 2021 to 74.4% in the first nine months of 2022. ADR increased by 16.4% from $318.17 in 2021 to $370.27 in 2022 while revpar grew by 55.2%, from $177.51 in the first nine months of 2021 to $275.57 in the first nine months of this year.
By comparison with the first nine months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 81.3% in 2019 to 74.4% in 2022. ADR however improved by 32.0% from $280.51 in the first nine months of 2019 to $370.27 in the same nine months of 2022, while RevPar grew by 20.9%, from $227.96 in 2019 to $275.57 in the same nine months of 2022.
In the first nine months of 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 62.0% from $2.578 billion in 2021 to $4.175 billion in the first nine months of this year. Total rooms revenues for the first nine months of 2022 were 24.3% higher than for the same nine months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 39.2%, from 8,102,800 room nights in 2021 to 11,276,700 in the same nine months of 2022. Room supply grew by 4.3% to 15,152,000 available room nights also in the first nine months.
Room demand in 2022 was 5.9% lower than for the same nine months of 2019 while room supply was 2.8% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For September, the survey included 146 properties representing 45,786 rooms, or 82.7 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including those offering full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. Vacation rental and timeshare properties were not included in this survey. The September survey included 76 properties on O‘ahu representing 28,071 rooms (92.6%); 37 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,457 rooms (70.8%); 15 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,839 rooms (68.7%); and 18 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,419 rooms (74.2%).

​The Central Bank of Aruba reports US$1.189 billion in tourism credits for the first six months of 2022, 9.2% more than for the same six months of 2019.
The Central Bank of Aruba recently reported gross tourism credits of AFL 2.128 billion for the first six months of 2022 (US$1.189 billion), 9.2% more than the AFL 1.949 billion (US$1.089 billion) reported for the first six months of 2019. The numbers for 2022 are preliminary and subject to change.
Tourism credits are defined by the IMF and UNWTO to be tourism receipts plus timeshare maintenance fees.
Aruba received 528,291 stopover visitors in the first six months of 2022, 91.8% of the 575,652 stopover visitors received in the first six months of 2019.
Consequently, the average spend per stopover visitors increased by 19.0% from US$1,891.59 in the first six months of 2019 to US$2,250.27 in the first six months of 2022.
It is acknowledged that the gross tourism receipts include spending by cruise visitors. Aruba received 263,472 cruise visitors in the first six months of 2022 who spent approximately US$32 million. In the first half of 2019 Aruba received 435,112 cruise visitors who spent about US$52 million.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its Tourism in 2023 report
Tatiana Rokou | Travel Daily News | 21 Oct 2022  
Global tourism arrivals will rise by 30% in 2023, following 60% growth in 2022, but they will still not return to pre-pandemic levels. The economic downturn, sanctions on Russia and, above all, China’s zero-covid strategy will be among the factors weighing on the industry.
The report finds that global tourism arrivals will increase by 30% in 2023, following growth of 60% in 2022, but will remain below pre-pandemic levels. The economic downturn, sanctions on Russia, and China’s zero-covid strategy will delay recovery.
Ana Nicholls, Director of Industry Analysis, EIU, says: “The tourism industry saw a strong recovery during 2022, and we expect that to continue in 2023, particularly if China starts lifting its zero-covid policy as expected. But the industry certainly won’t be immune to the economic slowdown. Costs have already risen sharply for fuel, electricity, food and staffing, and companies will have to pass those costs onto consumers who are already hurting from the higher cost of living. As a result, EIU has pushed back its forecast for a full recovery in international arrivals. We now don’t expect them to get back to 2019 levels until 2024, although the Middle East is one region that will be ahead of the curve.”
Key trends to watch in 2023 include:

• Global tourism arrivals will rise by 30% in 2023, following 60% growth in 2022, but they will still not return to pre-pandemic levels.
• The economic downturn, sanctions on Russia and, above all, China’s zero-covid strategy will be among the factors weighing on the industry.
• Hotels, restaurants and airports will struggle to cope with labour shortages, wage demands, and high food and energy prices.
• Even so, international airlines are expected to return to profitability, benefiting from continued pent-up demand.
• The impact of climate change on the industry will become more apparent, with high temperatures, water shortages and floods forcing tourism destinations to take action.

For full summary of report click here.
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Cruise passengers visiting Cayman to halve by 2024
By Norma Connolly | Cayman Compass | October 21, 2022
The number of cruise ship passengers visiting Cayman is expected to almost halve in the next two years, as cruise lines operating mega ships opt for destinations with berthing docks that can cater to the giant vessels, tourism chiefs say.
The Cayman Ministry of Tourism, based on information received from cruise lines, projects that just 746,000 cruise passengers will arrive on island in 2024 – a drop of nearly half compared to the 1.4 million expected to land here by the end of 2022, and a 60% reduction on 2019 figures when 1.84 million passengers arrived by ship.
Cayman reopened its borders to cruise tourists in March this year. In 2023, which will be the first full year of cruise tourism since the pandemic, it is projected that 1.3 million cruise passengers will enter Cayman.
Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan, speaking at the Cayman Islands Tourism Association annual general meeting on Thursday, said cruise line executives had confirmed to his ministry “unfortunately, that going forward, cruise calls will be substantially reduced for 2023 and 2024”.
He said two major cruise lines – Carnival and Royal Caribbean – stated they would be reducing their calls to Cayman “due to our lack of a walk-on, walk-off facility”.
He added, “These cruise lines have moved to operating the mega-class ships and are unwilling to tender them, principally due to the time it would take to ferry passengers on and off the ships.”
Currently, passengers arriving by cruise ship in Cayman are ferried to the dock by tender boats.
Mega-class ships can carry more than 6,000 passengers. Royal Caribbean’s largest ship, Wonder of the Seas, for example, has a maximum capacity of 6,988 passengers.
In 2019, approximately 400,000 Royal Caribbean passengers arrived in Cayman. This will reduce to 330,000 in 2023 and go down to 300,000 in 2024, Bryan said.
And Carnival, which had a combined total of 327 calls in 2019 from their respective cruise lines, which include Princess Cruises and Holland America, will be reducing that number to 171 next year, he added.
“These reductions in cruise calls are the main reasons why passenger arrivals will be significantly lower in 2023/24,” he said. “I know that’s not the kind of news anyone wanted to hear, but it is the reality, and it is not something we should be surprised about.”
A plan to build cruise berths to accommodate the larger cruise vessels, which was widely opposed by residents of the Cayman Island, was abandoned by the previous Progressives-led government, and the current PACT administration has vowed not to build one.
Bryan advised tourism operators to begin preparing now for the lower cruise arrivals. “Start to fine-tune your business operations and plan accordingly with respect to investments, staffing, equipment, etc.,” he said. “Be smart with your business decisions and ensure your revenue projections are in line with forecasted passenger arrivals.”
In the meantime, he said, his ministry had been in “encouraging” discussions with cruise lines operating smaller ships with passengers with higher yield, such as MSC Cruises and Holland America, “and we can look forward to their schedules being maintained and possibly increasing in the near future”.
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Costa Rica received 122,188 stopover arrivals in September 2022, 31.6% fewer than the 178,515 stopovers received in August.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 122,188 stopovers in September 2022, 31.6% fewer than the 178,515 stopovers received in August 2022.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in June 2021. Costa Rica received 85,183 stopovers in September 2021.
The 122,188 stopovers received in September 2022 were 76.3% of the 160,206 stopovers received in September 2019.
Costa Rica received 59,256 stopovers from the USA in September 2022, 48.5% of the overall total, and 18,223 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 31.3% in September 2019 to 14.9% in September 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 98.9% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 878,574 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,747,449 stopovers in the first nine months of 2022. The 1,747,449 stopover visitors were 73.4% of the 2,380,844 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 72.3% in the first nine months of 2022, from 577,639 stopovers in 2021 to 995,246 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 194.3%, growing from 44,759 in the first nine months of 2021 to 131,729 in the same nine months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 65.7% in the first nine months of 2021 to 57.0% in the first nine months of 2022.

Belize received 17,783 stopover visitors in September 2022, 38.7% fewer than the 29,011 visitors received in August.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 17,783 stopover visitors in September 2022, down 38.7% from the 37,138 stopover visitors received in August 2022.
Belize received 11,685 stopover visitors in September 2021.
The country reopened to visitors arriving by air as of October 1st 2020 and to visitors arriving by land and sea on July 31st 2021.
The 17,783 stopover visitors received in September 2022 were 90.5% of the 19,645 stopover visitors received in September 2019.
Belize received 10,841 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, 1,875 from Europe, 494 from Canada and 394 from Mexico.
Belize received 11 cruise ship calls in September 2022 with 30,094 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first nine months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 94.3%, from 148,284 stopover visitors in the first nine months of 2021 to 288,062 in the first nine months of 2022.
The 280,062 visitors received in the first nine months of 2022 were 75.2% of the 383,171 received in the first nine months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 75.1% in the first nine months of 2022, from 125,620 in 2021 to 219,939 in the same nine months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 1,768 stopover visitors in the first nine months of 2021 to 10,643 visitors in the same nine months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 3,891 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 24,665 visitors in the same nine months of 2022.
Belize received 414,905 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022, 46.7% of the 888,377 cruise visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
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The Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 89,586 departing passengers in September 2022, 23.0% fewer than the 116,409 departing passengers handled in August.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in September 2022 89,586 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 23.0% fewer than the 116,409 RGPs who departed in August 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport handled 67,021 RGPs in September 2021.
The airport also handled 9,582 passengers in transit in September 2022 as well as 16 transferring passengers.
In September 2022 62,530 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 1,314 pax to Canada, 8,694 pax to Europe, 12,115 pax to Latin America and 4,933 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 113,029 outbound seats in September 2022, 4.4% fewer than the 118,292 seats provided in September 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in September experienced an average load factor of 94.7%, 94.1% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged a 90.8% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for September was 88.5%.
In the first nine months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 906,551 RGPs, up 45.2% compared with the 624,375 handled in the first nine months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 32.0%, from 521,819 RGPs in the first nine months of 2021 to 688,991 in the same nine months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 1,030 RGPs in 2021 to 16,379 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 61.6%, from 45,651 RGPS in the first nine months of 2021 to 73,791RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 25.1% through the first nine months of 2022 from 963,333 available seats in the first nine months of 2021 to 1,204,966 seats in the same nine months of 2022. The 1,204,966 seats available in 2022 were 92.2% of the 1,307,243 seats available in the first nine months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 70.0% in the first nine months of 2021 to 83.3% in the same nine months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 69.8% in the first nine months of 2021 to 84.8% in the same nine months of 2022.
On September 17th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,584,938 available seats for CY 2022, 6.8% fewer than the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,070,562 seats to the USA, 0.5% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled from the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,209,502 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,358,589 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.5% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019 and the 2023 projected total is 12.3% higher than the total for 2022 and 7.3% higher than the 2019 total.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.
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Jamaica received 259,908 stopover visitors in July 2022, 11.4% more than the 233,269 stopovers received in June.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 259,908 stopover arrivals in July 2022, 11.4% more than the 233,269 stopovers received in June 2022 and 96.1% of the 270,462 stopovers received in July 2019.
Jamaica received 183,676 stopover arrivals in July 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 202,376 in July 2022, that is 0.3% more than the 201,721 stopovers received from the USA in July 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 77.9% of all stopover arrivals received in July 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 74,856 cruise passengers during July 2022.
Through the first seven months of 2022 Jamaica saw a 99.7% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 716,221 stopover arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 1,430,404 arrivals in the same seven months of 2022.
The 1,430,404 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 were 86.1% of the 1,661,145 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 61.4% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 675,420 arrivals in 2021 to 1,090,334 arrivals in the same seven months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 94.3% in the first seven months of 2021 to 76.2% in the same seven months of 2022.
Jamaica received 361,513 cruise passengers through July 2022, 63.1% fewer than the 980,532 cruise visitors received in the same seven months of 2019.
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Cuba announces it received 103,358 international stopover visitors in September 2022,  24.3% fewer than the 136,565 received in August.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals decreased by 24.3% in September 2022, falling from 136,565 international stopover arrivals in August 2022 to 103,358 arrivals in September 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 17,011 international stopovers in September 2021.
The 103,358 stopovers received in September 2022 were 51.3% of the 201,321 international visitors received in September 2019.
Cuba received 25,842 stopovers from Canada in September 2022, 25.0% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to just 395 this September.
In the first nine months of 2022 Cuba saw a 494.7% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 180,735 arrivals in 2021 to 1,074,814 stopovers this year. The 1,074,814 arrivals were 32.3% of the 3,327,392 international visitors received in the first nine months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 9,265 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021, to 324,252 in the same nine months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 30.2% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 111,228 in the first nine months of 2021 to 38,883 in the same nine months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 240,197 of all international visitors arriving in the first nine months of 2022, up from 19,003 in the same nine months of 2021.

Curacao reports it received 37,229 stopover arrivals in September 2022, 12.7% fewer than the 42,633 received in August.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 12.7% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in September, falling from 42,633 stopovers received in August 2022 to 37,229 stopovers received in September 2022.
The 37,229 stopovers received in September 2022 were 14.5% more than the 32,510 stopovers received in September 2019.
Curaçao received 27,540 stopover visitors in September 2021.
Curacao received 15,964 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in September 2022 and 8,010 stopovers from the USA, 42.9% and 21.5% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received 11 cruise ship calls with 29,033 cruise visitors in September 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 7 calls with 9,730 passengers in September of 2021. The 29,033 cruise visitors were 76.0% of the 38,202 received in September 2019.
In the first nine months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 136.7% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 150,247 visitors in 2021 to 355,661 visitors in the same nine months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 99.7%, growing from 90,582 visitors during the first nine months of 2021, to 180,880 in the same nine months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 157.6% during the first nine months, growing from 25,031 in 2021 to 64,481 in the same nine months of 2022.
The 355,661 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 was 2.7% more than the 346,464 stopovers received in the same nine months of 2019. The 180,880 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first nine months of 2022 was 26.5% more than the 143,048 received from the Netherlands in the first nine months of 2019.
In the first nine months of 2022 Curacao received 185 cruise ship calls which brought 314,827 cruise passengers, 58.1% of the 541,621 cruise visitors brought in the same nine months of 2019.
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AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved a 71.9% average room occupancy in September 2022, down 10.5 percentage points from the 82.4% achieved in August.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in September 2022 was 71.9%, 10.5 percentage points lower than the 82.4% achieved in August 2022.
Aruba’s hotels achieved a 56.0% average room occupancy in September 2021.
Average occupancy in September 2022 was 7.6 percentage points lower than the 79.5% average room occupancy achieved in September 2019.
ADR was $256.35 in September 2022, 12.0% higher than in September 2021, and 19.7% higher than in September 2019.
RevPar was $184.29 in September 2022, 43.8% higher than in September 2021 and 8.2% higher than in September 2019.
Through the first nine months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 73.7% compared with 53.1% for the first nine months of 2021. Again, compared with the first nine months of 2021, ADR grew by 20.4% from $252.77 in 2021 to $304.24 in the first nine months of 2022. RevPar grew by 67.30% from $134.11 in 2021 to $224.32 in the first nine months of 2022.
By comparison with the first nine months of 2019 average room occupancy was 11.9 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 9.2%, higher and revpar was 5.9% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,360 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 82% in September 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 74% for October, 80% for November, 78% for December, 79% for January 2023, and 76% for 2022 overall.

Trinidad and Tobago received 19,264 stopover visitors in September 2022, 10.1% fewer than the 21,429 stopover visitors received in August.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 19,264 stopover visitors in September 2022, a decrease of 10.1% compared with the 21,429 stopovers received in August 2022.
Trinidad received 18,405 stopover visitors in September 2022 with Tobago receiving 859.
Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 4,616 stopover visitors in September 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 19,264 stopover visitors received in September 2022 were 76.1% of the 25,318 stopover visitors received in September 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 9,119 stopover arrivals from the USA in September 2022, 2,432 from Europe, 2,118 from Canada and 5,595 from the rest of the world.
In the first nine months of 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 12,718 in the first nine months of 2021 to 155,393 in the first nine months of 2022.
The 155,393 visitors received in 2022 were 53.0% of the 292,974 received in the first nine months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 6,437 in the first nine months of 2021 to 78,055 in the same nine months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 1,278 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021, to 17,309 in the same nine months of 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 1,835 in 2021 to 21,259 in the same nine months of 2022.
Trinidad received 149,161 stopovers in the first nine months of 2022, 96.0% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 6,232 stopovers.
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Saint Lucia received 32,618 stopovers in August 2022, 16.7% fewer than the 39,145 stopovers received in July.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 16.7% decline in stopover visitor arrivals in August 2022, falling from 39,145 stopovers in July 2022 to 32,618 stopovers in August 2022.
Saint Lucia received zero cruise visitors in August. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in July 2021. And Saint Lucia received 1,637 visitors in August 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia received 20,569 stopover arrivals in August 2021.
The 32,618 stopovers received in August 2022 were 89.8% of the 36,342 stopovers received in August 2019.
Saint Lucia received 20,425 stopover arrivals from the USA in August 2022, which comprised 62.6% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 5,661 visitors from the United Kingdom in August 2022.
Through the first eight months of 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 119.5% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 110,491 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 242,547 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 53.2%, from 97,512 in the first eight months of 2021 to 149,371 in the same eight months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 8,957 in the first eight months of 2021 to 56,076 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
The 242,547 stopovers received in 2022 were 81.2% of the 298,723 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 165,266 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022 compared with 507,293 received in the first eight months of 2019 and received 11,441 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 46,673 who arrived in the first eight months of 2019.

Mauritius reports it received 81,087 stopover visitors in September 2022, 6.4% fewer than the 86,605 stopovers received in August 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 81,087 total stopover arrivals in September 2022, 6.4% fewer than the 86,065 stopovers received in August 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 14,145 visitors from France in September 2022, 17.4% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 12,542 visitors, 15.5% of the total for the month. Germany generated 12,092 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020 and reopened its borders to international travel as of October 1st 2021, consequently receiving just 2,494 stopovers in September 2021.
The 81,087 arrivals received in September 2022 were 80.4% of the 100,837 stopovers received in September 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 9,460 in the first nine months of 2021 to 638,332 in the first nine months of this year. The number one source market in the first nine months of 2022 was France with 145,366 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 96,163 stopovers, and Germany with 66,344 stopovers. These three markets together generated 48.2% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 973,642 stopovers through the first nine months of 2019 with the total received during the first nine months of 2022 being 65.6% of this total.
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Aruba received 78,261 stopover visitors in September 2022, 6.3% more than the 73,628 stopovers received in September 2019.
According to Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 78,261 stopover arrivals in September 2022, 6.3% more than the 73,628 stopover visitors it received in September 2019.
Aruba received 60,293 stopover visitors in September 2021.
Compared with September 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 8.7%, growing from 52,401 arrivals in September 2019 to 56,976 arrivals in September 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 72.8% of all arrivals in September 2022 up from 71.2% in September 2019.
Arrivals from Canada decreased by 24.7%, falling from 2,611 in September 2019 to 1,965 stopovers in September 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands increased by 13.0%, growing from 3,031 in September 2019 to 3,426 in September of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in June 2021 and during September 2022 received 11 cruise ship calls and a total of 29,034 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in September 2022 declined by 1.6% compared with September 2019, falling from 38,305 visitors in 2019 to 37,677 in September 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 52.0% in September 2019 to 48.1% in September 2022.
22,972 visitors used timeshare accommodation in September 2022, 15.3% more than the 27,040 visitors who used such accommodation in September 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 27.1% in September 2019 to 29.4% in September 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 14.4% when comparing September 2019 with September 2022, growing from 15,396 visitors in 2019 to 17,612 in September 2022, with the share growing from 20.9% in 2019 to 22.5% in 2022.
In September 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 22,356 non-resident visitors, 28.6% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 13,279 non-resident visitors, 17.0% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 9,880 visitors with Delta bringing in 8,956 visitors. These four carriers brought in 69.6% of all visitors in September of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old fell from 49.7% in September 2019 to 48.2% in September 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older grew from 23.9% in September 2019 to 25.4% in September of this year.
In the first nine months of 2022 Aruba saw a 44.0% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 567,088 visitors in the first nine months of 2021 to 816,362 visitors in the first nine months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 31.3% during the first nine months, from 492,071 in the first nine months of 2021 to 645,908 in the same nine months of 2022.
The 816,362 stopover visitors received in the first nine months of 2022 was 96.2% of the 848,841 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2019.
The 645,908 stopovers received from the USA in the first nine months of 2022, was 1.2% more than the 638,459 stopovers received from the USA in the first nine months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.2% in the first nine months of 2019 to 79.1% in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first nine months of 2022 declined by 15.0% compared with the same nine months of 2019, falling from 440,744 visitors in 2019 to 374,647 in the same nine months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.9% in the first nine months of 2019 to 45.9% in the same nine months of 2022.
In the first nine months of 2022 241,872 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 6.3% more than the 227,546 visitors who used such accommodation in the first nine months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.8% in 2019 to 29.6% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 10.7% when comparing the first nine months of 2019 with the same nine months of 2022, growing from 180,551 visitors in 2019 to 199,843 in 2022, with the share growing from 21.3% in 2019 to 24.5% in 2022.
In the first nine months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 244,654 non-resident visitors, 30.0% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 168,076 non-resident visitors, 20.6% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 113,956 visitors with Delta bringing in 91,086 visitors. These four carriers brought in 75.8% of all visitors in the first nine months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 45.4% in the first nine months of 2019 to 47.6% in the same nine months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 20.6% in 2019 to 19.1% in 2022.
Aruba received 195 cruise ship calls in the first nine months of 2022 with 358,679 cruise passengers compared with the 209 calls cruise ships made in the same nine months of 2019 with 555,525 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 30.8%, from 2,658 visitors  in 2019 to 1,839 visitors in 2022.

​U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations increased by 5.7% in July 2022 compared to June.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for July 2022.

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 5.7% in July 2022, growing from 8,680,304 trips in June 2022 to 9,177,301 trips in July 2022.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 6.9%, growing from 955,953 trips in June 2022 to 1,022,177 trips in July 2022.
• Given that many countries had restrictions in place in July 2021, limiting international arrivals, 868,730 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in July of 2021.
• The 1,022,177 trips taken to the Caribbean in July 2022 were 4.3% more than the 979,916 trips taken to the Caribbean in July 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased however from 9.1% in July 2019 to 11.1% in July 2022.
• Trips to Europe decreased by 9.3% in July, falling from 2,258,863 trips in June 2022 to 2,047,835 trips in July 2022. Trips to Europe were 22.3% of trips taken by US citizens in July 2022.
• The 2,047,835 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in July 2022 were 91.4% of the 2,240,071 trips taken to Europe in July 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 0.7%, growing from 1,285,927 trips in June 2022 to 1,295,562 trips in July 2022.
• The 1,295,562 trips were 28.7% more than the 1,006,762 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in July 2019.
• The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 9.4% in July 2019 to 14.1% in July 2022.

 Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
In the first seven months of 2022

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 83.2% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 24.5 million trips in the first seven months of 2021 to 44.9 million trips in the same seven months of 2022.
• The 44,903,913 total international trips taken in the first seven months of 2022 were 76.7% of the 58,511,523 trips taken in the first seven months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 57.6% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 3,540,355 trips in 2021, to 5,578,944 trips in the first seven months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 14.4% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022.
• The 5,578,944 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first seven months of 2022 were 89.8% of the 6,209,220 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first seven months of 2019.
• Trips to Europe grew from 1,803,792 trips in the first seven months of 2021 to 8,570,790 trips in the same seven months of 2022. The 8,570,790 trips taken in 2022 were 76.5% of the 11,200,132 trips taken to Europe in the first seven months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 41.9%, from 5,526,691 trips in the first seven months of 2021 to 7,842,929 in the same seven months of 2022. The 7,842,929 trips were 23.0% more than the 6,374,971trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first seven months of 2019.
• This segment’s share of all trips fell from 22.5% in the first seven months of 2021 to 17.5% in the same seven months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 10.9% share seen in the first seven months of 2019.

Seychelles received 24,427 tourist arrivals in September 2022, 16.8% fewer than the 29,366 arrivals received in August.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 16.8% decrease in visitor arrivals in September 2022, falling from 29,366 arrivals received in August 2022 to 24,427 arrivals in September 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 24,427 arrivals, 24,397 were stopover visitors and 30 were transit visitors.
Seychelles received 16,609 tourist arrivals in September 2021.
The 24,427 visitor arrivals received in September 2022 were 98.3% of the 24,860 arrivals received in September 2019.
The number one source market in September 2022 was Germany which generated 4,143 visitors (17.0% of the total for the month) followed by France, with 2,651 visitors (10.9%).
In the first nine months of 2022 Seychelles saw a 125.8% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 106,826 arrivals in the first nine months of 2021 to 241,204 arrivals in the first nine months of 2022. The 241,204 stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 were 87.8% of the 274,823 received in the first nine months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first nine months of 2022 was France which generated 32,929 visitors, 13.7% of all visitor arrivals for those first nine months, followed by Germany, which generated 31,277 visitors, 13.0% of the overall total. Russia generated 20,617 visitors in the same nine months with the bulk of those arrivals coming in January and February.
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Dubai received 1,020,000 international visitors in August 2022, a 4.1% increase in visitors compared with July 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 4.1% increase in the number of international visitors in August 2022, growing from 980,000 visitors in July 2022 to 1,020,000 in August 2022.
Dubai received 380,000 international visitors in August 2021.
The 1,020,000 visitors received in August 2022 was 20.3% fewer than the 1,280,000 international visitors received in August 2019.
The number one source market in August was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 145,000 visitors, followed by India with 113,000 visitors and Oman with 103,000 visitors.
In the first eight months of 2022 Dubai received 9,120,000 international visitors, 182.4% more than the 3,230,000 visitors received in the first eight months of 2021, and 84.0% of the 10,860,000 visitors received in the first eight months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first eight months of 2022 was India which generated 1,088,000 visitors, 11.9% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 983,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 823,000 visitors.
As of August 2022, Dubai had 587 hotels offering 116,514 hotel rooms and 192 apartment hotels offering 25,701 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 71.0% in the first eight months of 2022 with an ADR of US$140.05 and a RevPar of US$99.18. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 77.0%.
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​IATA reports total air traffic was up 67.7% in August 2022 compared with August last year and is now 73.7% of 2019 levels.
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced passenger data for August 2022 showing continued momentum in the air travel recovery.
Total traffic in August 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was up 67.7% compared to August 2021.
Globally, traffic is now at 73.7% of pre-crisis levels.
Domestic traffic for August 2022 was up 26.5% compared to the year-ago period. Total August 2022 domestic traffic was at 85.4% of the August 2019 level.
International traffic rose 115.6% versus August 2021 with airlines in Asia delivering the strongest year-over-year growth rates. August 2022 international RPKs reached 67.4% of August 2019 levels.
“The Northern Hemisphere peak summer travel season finished on a high note. Considering the prevailing economic uncertainties, travel demand is progressing well. And the removal or easing of travel restrictions at some key Asian destinations, including Japan, will certainly accelerate the recovery in Asia. The mainland of China is the last major market retaining severe COVID-19 entry restrictions,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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Antigua and Barbuda received 15,462 stopovers in September 2022, 33.4% more than in September 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 33.4% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in September 2022, growing from 11,589 stopovers received in September 2021 to 15,462 stopovers this September.
The 15,462 stopovers received In September 2022 were 9.5% more than the 14,124 stopovers Antigua received in September 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 7,885 stopover visitors from the USA in September 2022 which comprised 51.0% of all stopovers received in September. Antigua also received 4,129 stopover visitors from the U.K. in September, 26.7% of all stopovers received during that month.
Antigua also received 4,904 cruise visitors in September 2022.
Through the first nine months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 71.1% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 110,890 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 189,686 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 23.0%, from 76,666 stopovers in the first nine months of 2021 to 94,283 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 24,471 in the first nine months of 2021 to 58,653 stopovers in the same nine months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first nine months of 2022 was 87.7% of the 216,228 stopovers received in the same nine months of 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 197,636 cruise visitors in the first nine months of 2022, 40.1% of the 492,966 cruise visitors received in the same nine months of 2019. The destination also received 8,330 visitors who arrived by yacht, 57.9% of the 14,388 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first nine months of 2019.
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Cancun saw a 24.2% decrease in international air passenger movements in September 2022 compared with August.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 24.2% decrease in international passenger movements in September 2022, falling from 1,653,404 movements in August 2022 to 1,254,056 movements in September 2022. Domestic passenger movements decreased by 13.5%, falling from 1,072,363 passenger movements in August 2022 to 927,307 movements in September 2022.
The 1,254,056 international passenger movements were 34.4% more than the 933,081 handled in September 2021 and were also 41.0% more than the 889,419 passengers handled in September 2019.
And while the 927,307 domestic passenger movements were 27.4% more than the 727,985 handled in September 2021 they were also 32.1% more than the 701,857 domestic passengers handled in September 2019.
In the first nine months of 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 62.5%, growing from 9,062,268 movements in 2021 to 14,721,839 movements in the first nine months of 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 17.3%, growing from 6,542,411 movements in the first nine months of 2021 to 7,676,725 in the same nine months of 2022.
By comparison with the first nine months of 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in 2022 was 16.2% more than the 2019 total, growing from 12,671,074 movements in 2019 to 14,721,839 movements in the first nine months of 2022, while the volume of 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 14.5% more than the 2019 total, growing from 6,703,534 movements in the first nine months of 2019 to 7,676,725 in the same nine months of 2022.
In the first nine months of 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 65.7% of all passenger movements, up from 58.1% in 2021, and up slightly from the 65.4% achieved in the first nine months of 2019.

San Juan International Airport handled 574,079 domestic passenger movements in September 2022, 30.0% fewer than the 819,719 handled in August.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw a 30.0% decline in domestic passenger traffic in September 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, falling from 819,719 domestic passenger movements in August 2022 to 574,079 domestic passenger movements in September 2022.
It should be noted that Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico on September 19th 2022 causing a major disruption of traffic.
San Juan International Airport handled 638,187 domestic passenger movements in September 2021, 11.2% more than in September 2022.
The 574,079 domestic passenger movements handled in September 2022 were 11.7% more than the 513,775 domestic movements handled in September 2019.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, decreased by 36.8%, falling from 85,959 passenger movements in August 2022 to 54,300 passenger movements in September 2022. San Juan International Airport handled 46,264 international passenger movements in September 2021.
The 54,300 international passenger movements seen in September 2022 were 5.1% fewer than the 57,235 international passenger movements handled in September 2019.
Through the first nine months of 2022 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 3.4%, from 7,175,392 in 2021 to 7,714,993 in the first nine months of 2022. International passenger movements increased by 85.3% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 363,466 passenger movements in 2021 to 673,648 passengers in the first nine months of 2022.
By comparison with the first nine months of 2019 domestic passenger movements were up by 11.5%, while international movements decreased by 11.0%.
In the first nine months of 2022 domestic passenger movements were 91.3% of all passenger movements compared to 89.3% in the first nine months of 2019.

Los Cabos handled 252,100 international passenger movements in September 2022, 25.5% fewer than the 338,300 handled in August.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 25.5% decline in international passenger traffic in September 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, falling from 338,300 international passenger movements in August 2022 to 252,100 international passenger movements in September 2022.
Los Cabos handled 235,500 international passenger movements in September 2021.
The 252,100 international passenger movements handled in September 2022 were 49.4% more than the 168,700 international movements handled in September 2019.
Domestic traffic decreased by 19.8%, falling from 260,200 passenger movements in August 2022 to 208,600 passenger movements in September 2022. Los Cabos handled 171,400 domestic passenger movements in September 2021.
The 208,600 domestic passenger movements seen in September 2022 were 45.3% more than the 143,600 domestic passenger movements handled in September 2019.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 34.5%, from 2,462,100 in 2021 to 3,310,600 in the first nine months of 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 29.4% in the first nine months of 2022, growing from 1,445,400 passengers in 2021 to 1,869,800 passengers in the first nine months of 2022.
By comparison with the first nine months of 2019 international passenger movements were up by 19.7%, while domestic movements increased by 29.2%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 300,600 total passenger movements in September 2022, 25.9% fewer than the 405,800 handled in August.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport decline by 25.9% in September 2022, falling from 405,800 total movements in August 2022 to 300,600 movements in September 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in September 2022 was 17.0% more than the 256,900 passengers handled in September 2019.
Montego Bay Airport handled 191,000 passenger movements in September 2021.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 83.2%, from 1,761,000 in 2021 to 3,225,800 in the first nine months of 2022. The 2022 total of 3,225,800 movements was 89.1% of the 3,622,100 passenger movements handled in the first nine months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 137,000 total passenger movements in September 2022, a decrease of 25.7% compared with August.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport decrease by 25.7% in September 2022, falling from 184,400 total movements in August 2022 to 137,000 total passenger movements in September 2022. Numbers for September 2019 are not available.
Kingston Airport handled 73,000 passengers in September 2021.
Through the first nine months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 99.6%, from 565,900 in 2021 to 1,129,400 in the first nine months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Mexico received 1,925,283 international air arrivals in August 2022, down 22.3% compared with July.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,565,423 international air arrivals in August 2022, down 22.3% compared with the 2,106,723 arrivals received in July 2022.
Mexico received 1,224,684 international visitors in August 2021.
The 1,566,423 international air arrivals received in August 2022 were 9.6% more than the 1,429,074 international air visitors received in August 2019.
Mexico received 956,780 air visitors from the USA in August 2022, 61.1% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (84,359 visitors) with Colombia third largest (72,319 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 767,744 international air visitor arrivals in August 2022, 49.0% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 154,566 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 92,208  international air visitors.
In the first eight months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 64.7%, from 8,351,321 arrivals in 2021 to 13,757,031 arrivals in the same eight months of 2022. The 13,757,031 arrivals received in the first eight months of 2022 were 4.4% higher than the 13,179,681 international arrivals received in the first eight months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 37.5% in the first eight months of 2022, from 6,489,303 air arrivals in 2021 to 8,925,028 air arrivals in the first eight months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 100,199 in 2021 to 1,029,934 in the first eight months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 66.9% increase in international air arrivals in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 3,884,708 arrivals in 2021 to 6,481,993 arrivals in the first eight months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 38.1% increase growing from 1,069,834 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,477,879 air arrivals in the first eight months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw an 83.4% increase, growing from 613,873 international arrivals in 2021 to 1,125,950 international arrivals in the same eight months of 2022.

Puerto Rico saw its average hotel room occupancy increase to 77.8% in July 2022 growing by 11.6 percentage points from the 66.2% achieved in June.
According to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the hotels and resorts endorsed by the PRTC saw the number of non-resident hotel registrations increase by 11.9% in July 2022, growing from 159,993 non-resident registrations in June 2022 to 177,744 registrations in July 2022. Registrations by local residents also increased, by 18.6%, growing from 74,472 in June 2022 to 88,356 in July 2022.
The 177,744 non-resident hotel registrations achieved in July 2022 were 40.3% more than the 126,733 non-resident registrations achieved in July 2019.
The PRTC reports that the number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 4.2%, growing from 413,307 in June 2022 to 430,569 in July 2022. The number of available room nights in July 2022 was 11.7% higher than in July 2019.
The number of occupied room nights increased by 8.2%, growing from 309,511 in June 2022 to 334,817 in July 2022. The number of occupied room nights achieved in July 2022 was 16.1% more than the total achieved in July 2019.
Average room occupancy increased by 11.6 percentage points from the 66.2% achieved in June 2022 to 77.8% in July 2022. Average room occupancy in July 2019 was 74.8%.
ADR decreased by 0.6% falling from $254.83 in June 2022 to $253.29 in July 2022 and was 61.6% higher than the $156.70 achieved in July 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022 the number of non-resident hotel registrations increased by 11.5%, growing from 989,489 non-resident registrations in the first seven months of 2021 to 1,102,960 registrations in the first seven months of 2022. Registrations by local residents increased by 1.4% growing from 405,524 in 2021 to 419,074 in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 5.4% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 2,745,534 in 2021 to 2,893,594 in 2022. The number of occupied room nights increased by 13.6%, growing from 1,782,519 in 2021 to 2,204,480 in 2022.
The overall average room occupancy grew by 5.1 percentage points from 64.9% in the first seven months of 2021 to 70.0% in the same seven months of 2022. ADR grew by 13.8% from $240.91 in 2021 to $274.05 in the same seven months of 2022. ADR in the first seven months of 2022 was 62.0% higher than for the same seven months of 2019.
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Costa Rica received 178,515 stopover arrivals in August 2022, 19.9% fewer than the 222,982 stopovers received in July.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 178,515 stopovers in August 2022, 19.9% fewer than the 222,982 stopovers received in July 2022.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in June 2021. Costa Rica received 122,162 stopovers in August 2021.
The 178,515 stopovers received in August 2022 were 79.2% of the 225,299 stopovers received in August 2019.
Costa Rica received 95,346 stopovers from the USA in August 2022, 53.4% of the overall total, and 14,774 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 22.9% in August 2019 to 8.3% in August 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 104.8% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 793,391 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 1,625,261 stopovers in the first eight months of 2022. The 1,625,261 stopover visitors were 74.2% of the 2,220,638 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 76.9% in the first eight months of 2022, from 529,130 stopovers in 2021 to 935,990 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 205.0%, growing from 37,220 in the first eight months of 2021 to 113,506 in the same eight months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 66.7% in the first eight months of 2021 to 57.6% in the first eight months of 2022.

Belize received 29,011 stopover visitors in August 2022, 21.9% fewer than the 37,138 visitors received in July.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 29,011 stopover visitors in August 2022, down 21.9% from the 37,138 stopover visitors received in July 2022.
Belize received 16,782 stopover visitors in August 2021. The country reopened to visitors arriving by air as of October 1st 2020 and to visitors arriving by land and sea on July 31st 2021.
The 29,011 stopover visitors received in August 2022 were 85.9% of the 33,764 stopover visitors received in August 2019.
Belize received 19,933 stopover arrivals from the USA in August 2022, 3,395 from Europe, 736 from Canada and 469 from Mexico.
Belize received 10 cruise ship calls in August 2022 with 30,283 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first eight months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 97.9%, from 136,599 stopover visitors in the first eight months of 2021 to 270,279 in the first eight months of 2022.
The 270,279 visitors received in the first half of 2022 were 74.3% of the 363,526 received in the first eight months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 79.6% in the first eight months of 2022, from 116,394 in 2021 to 209,098 in the same eight months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 1,512 stopover visitors in the first eight months of 2021 to 10,149 visitors in the same eight months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 3,426 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 22,790 visitors in the same eight months of 2022.
Belize received 384,811 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022, 45.8% of the 840,748 cruise visitors received in the first eight months of 2019.
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Barbados received 33,205 stopovers in August 2022, 1.8% fewer than the 33,798 stopovers received in July.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 1.8% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in August 2022, falling from the 33,798 stopover arrivals in July 2022 to 33,205 stopover arrivals in August 2022.
Barbados received no cruise visitors in August 2022.
Barbados imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitor arrivals as of March 22nd  2020 which remained in place until November 24th 2021. Barbados consequently received 15,620 stopover arrivals in August 2021.
The 33,205 stopovers received in August 2022 were 65.4% of the 50,757 stopovers received in August 2019.
Barbados received 10,121 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in August 2022, 30.5% of all arrivals, and 12,395 stopovers from the USA 37.3% of all stopovers for August.
Through the first eight months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 46,015 in the first eight months of 2021 to 275,815 in the first eight months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 14,195 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 114,018 in the same eight months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 16,764 in the first eight months of 2021 to 82,448 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
The 275,815 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 were 57% of the 484,020 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
Barbados received 175,889 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022 compared with 537,235 received in the same eight months of 2019. 
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Las Vegas received 3,190,600 visitors in August 2022, 8.6% fewer than the 3,491,600 received in July 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors decrease by 8.6% in August 2022, falling from 3,491,600 arrivals in July 2022 to 3,190,600 in August of 2022.
Las Vegas received 2,998,400 visitors in August 2021.
The 3,190,600 arrivals received in August 2022 were 88.1% of the 3,579,000 arrivals received in August 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 151,116 open hotel rooms in August 2022 (up 0.6% compared with August 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 76.8% (72.8% in August 2021), an ADR of $148.09 and a RevPar of $113.73.
Gaming revenue decreased by 8.8% in August 2022, falling from $1.123 billion in July 2022 to $1.024 billion in August 2022. Gaming revenue in August 2022 was 29.2% higher than the $792.69 million in gaming revenue generated in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 27.7% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 19,788,100 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 25,262,200 visitors in the same eight months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first eight months of 2022 was 88.9% of the 28,404,500 received in the same eight months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 77.4% in the first eight months of 2022 (up 15.4 percentage points compared with the first eight months of 2021), an ADR of $160.46 (up 30.0% compared with the same eight months of 2021) and a RevPar of $124.20, up 62.3%, also compared with the same eight months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 16.3% in the first eight months of 2022, from $7.222 billion in 2021 to $8.402 billion in the same eight months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first eight months of 2022 was 22.8% higher than the $6.842 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first eight months of 2019.

​Hawaii reports the state received 829,699 out-of-state tourists in August 2022, 9.7% fewer than the 919,154 received in July.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals decrease by 9.7% in August 2022, falling from 919,154 air arrivals received in July 2022 to 829,699 arrivals in August 2022.
The 829,699 arrivals received in August 2022 were 10.4% fewer than the 926,417 arrivals received in August 2019. However, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in August 2022 was $1.711 billion, up 13.8% compared with August 2019.
Hawaii received 723,017 out of state visitors in August 2021.
Hawaii received 684,053 air arrivals from the mainland USA in August 2022, 82.4% of the overall total, 27,472 arrivals from Canada, 28,384 arrivals from Japan and 89,779 air arrivals from other markets.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 27.1% from $1,622.20 in August 2019 to $2,061.70 in August 2022.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 41.2% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 4,355,532 air arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 6,151,004 air arrivals in the same eight months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first eight months of 2022 were 87.7% of the 7,015,774 received in the first eight months of 2019.
For the first eight months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $12,873.7 million, 6.8% more than the $12,055.8 million spent in the first eight months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.6% from $1,699.70 per person per trip in the first eight months of 2019 to $2,083.10 per person per trip in the first eight months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 26.7% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 4,221,024 air arrivals in 2021 to 5,349,478 air arrivals in the same eight months of 2022, from Japan grew from 10,965 stopovers in 2021 to 86,442 in the first eight months of 2022 and grew from 13,992 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 244,290 in the same eight months of 2022.
Hawaii received 29,181 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022.

The United States Virgin Islands received 61,333 air arrivals in August 2022, 23.4% fewer than the 80,121 air visitors received in July.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decline by 23.4% in August 2022, falling from 80,121 air arrivals in July 2022 to 61,333 air arrivals in August of this year.
And the 61,333 air arrivals received in August 2022 was 4.8% fewer than the 64,392 air visitors received in August 2021.
The 61,333 air arrivals received in August 2022 were 26.8% more than the 48,376 received in August 2019.
The USVI also received 86,998 cruise visitors from 22 cruise ship calls up substantially from 10,551 cruise visitors received in August 2021. The 86,998 cruise visitors received in August 2022 were 24.9% more than the 69,656 cruise visitors received in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 2.0%, from 587,055 air arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 598,833 air arrivals in the first eight months of 2022.
The 598,833 arrivals received in the first eight months of 2022 were 28.8% higher than the 464,928 air arrivals received in the first eight months of 2019.
The USVI also received 603,901 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022, 65.5% of the 921,910 cruise visitors received in the first eight months of 2019.

​International Tourism Back To 57% Of Pre-Pandemic Levels In January-July 2022
UNWTO | 26th September 2022
According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourist arrivals almost tripled in January to July 2022 (+172%) compared to the same period of 2021. This means the sector recovered to 57% of pre-pandemic levels.
The steady recovery reflects strong pent-up demand for international travel as well as the easing or lifting of travel restrictions to date (86 countries had no COVID-19 related restrictions as of 19 September 2022).
An estimated 474 million tourists travelled internationally over the period, compared to the 175 million in the same months of 2021. An estimated 207 million international arrivals were recorded in June and July 2022 combined, over twice the numbers seen in the same two months last year. These months represent 44% of the total arrivals recorded in the first seven months of 2022. Europe welcomed 309 million of these arrivals, accounting for 65% of the total. 
The Caribbean recovered to 82% of the equivalent YTD 2019 total.
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UK residents were estimated to have made 9.5 million trips abroad in the first quarter of 2022, 52.5% of the total number of trips abroad taken in the first quarter of 2019.
The United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics recently reported the results of the number of trips abroad taken by residents of the UK for the first quarter of 2022 derived from the International Passenger Survey.
They report that UK residents took 9.534 million trips between January and March 2022, 52.5% of the 18.159 million trips taken in the first quarter of 2019 but up substantially from 918,000 trips taken in the first three months of 2021.
Europe was the most popular destination with 7.09 million trips (74.4% of all trips) with Spain being the most popular destination overall (1.989 million trips) followed by France (1.113 million trips).
Trips to Spain in the first quarter of 2022 were 68.3% of the total number of trips taken to Spain in the first three months of 2019.
The total number of trips taken falls with plus or minus 2.3% at a 95% confidence level while trips to various regions of the world fall between plus or minus 3.1% at a similar confidence level.

Antigua and Barbuda received 20,125 stopovers in August 2022, 7.1% more than in August 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 7.1% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in August 2022, growing from 18,792 stopovers received in August 2021 to 20,125 stopovers this August.
The 20,125 stopovers received In August 2022 were 14.0% more than the 17,653 stopovers Antigua received in August 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 10,013 stopover visitors from the USA in August 2022 which  comprised 49.8% of all stopovers received in August. Antigua also received 5,155 stopover visitors from the U.K. in August, 25.6% of all stopovers received during that month.
Through the first eight months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 75.5% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 99,301 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 174,224 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 21.8%, from 70,958 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 86,398 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 19,735 in the first eight months of 2021 to 54,524 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 was 86.2% of the 202,104 stopovers received in the same eight months of 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 192,732 cruise visitors in the first eight months of 2022, 40% of the 481,818 cruise visitors received in the same eight months of 2019. The destination also received 8,330 visitors who arrived by yacht, 58.1% of the 14,337 visitors who arrived by yacht in the first eight months of 2019.

The Maldives reports it received 131,862 stopover visitor arrivals in August 2022, 1.3% fewer than the 133,561 received in July.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 131,862 stopover visitors in August 2022, down 1.3% from the 133,561 stopovers received in July 2022.
The Maldives received 143,599 stopover visitors in August 2021.
The 131,862 stopovers received in August 2022 were 5.4% fewer than the 139,338 stopovers received in August 2019.
In August 2022 Russia was the number one source market and generated 21,792 stopovers (16.5% share of the overall total) while India was number two with 16,374 stopovers (12.4% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 12,955 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 38.1% from 848 in August 2021 to 1,171 establishments in August 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 15.5% from 50,402 in August 2021 to 58,233 in August 2022.
During August 2022 overall average room occupancy fell by 5.4 percentage points from 64.9% in August 2021 to 59.5% for August 2022.
Of the 1,171 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 40,053 beds. These resorts achieved a 72.7% average room occupancy during August 2022 up from 70.9% for August 2021.
The Maldives saw a 42.7% increase in total arrivals in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 755,966 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021 to 1,078,634 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022 with India (153,207 visitors) and the United Kingdom (122,944 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these eight months.
The 1,078,634 visitors received in the first eight months of 2022 was 95.1% of the 1,134,071 visitors received in the first eight months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 48.3% from an average of 717 in the first eight months of 2021 to an average of 1,063 establishments in the same eight months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 18.4% from 47,418 in the first eight months of 2021 to 56,144 in the same eight months of this year.
Through the end of August 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 7.9 percentage points from 52.7% in 2021 to 60.6% for the first eight months of this year.
Of the 1,063 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 39,369 beds. These resorts achieved a 72.8% average room occupancy through the first eight months of 2022 up from 60.5% for the first eight months of 2021. Through the first eight months of 2021 there was an average of 152 resorts in operation offering 35,715 beds. 
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Abu Dhabi’s hotels report 67.0% average room occupancy in August 2022.
According to the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, hotel room occupancy grew to 67.0% in August 2022 up four percentage points from the 63.0% achieved in July 2022.
ADR decreased by 2.9% however, falling from US$75.48 in July to US$73.30 in August, while revpar grew by 2.3%, from US$47.68 in July 2022 to US$48.77 in August of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 73.0% in August 2021.
Abu Dhabi received a total of 363,000 hotel guests in August 2022 of which 122,000 came from the United Arab Emirates, 39,000 guests came from India and 22,000 from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
For the first eight months of 2022 Abu Dhabi’s hotel room occupancy increased by one percentage point from 68.0% in 2021 to 69.0% in the first eight months of 2022. ADR increased by 16.1% from US$74.66 in 2021 to US$86.65 in 2022 while revpar grew by 18.4%, from US$50.41 in the first eight months of 2021 to US$59.67 in the first eight months of this year.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 70.5% in 2019 to 69.0% in 2022. ADR fell by 8.2% from US$94.38 in the first eight months of 2019 to US$86.65 in the same eight months of 2022, while RevPar fell by 12.2%, from US$67.98 in 2019 to US$59.67 in the same eight months of 2022.
Abu Dhabi received a total of 2,600,000 hotel guests in the first eight months of 2022, up 25.1% from the 2,079,000 received in the same eight months of 2021 but this total was just 76.5% of the 3,404,000 guests received in the first eight months of 2019.
The number one source market of hotel guests in the first eight months of 2022 was the UAE with 771,000 guests, 29.7% of the overall total. The number two market was India with 299,000 guests followed by The Philippines with 112,000 guests.
The number of guests from the UAE in 2022 was 23.0% fewer than the 1,001,000 received in the first eight months of 2019 although the number of guests from India grew by 4.9% from the 285,100 received in 2019 to 299,000 in 2022. 

​Hawaii’s hotels report a 4.4 percentage point decrease in average room occupancy in August 2022 compared with July 2022, falling from 81.5% to 77.1%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy declined by 4.4 percentage points from 81.5% in July 2022 to 77.1% in August of this year. ADR fell by 7.4% from $413.57 in July to $382.93 in August, while revpar fell by 12.4%, from $337.01 in July 2022 to $295.26 in August of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 73.3% in August 2021.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide declined by 12.4%, falling from $581.4 million in July 2022 to $509.4 million in August 2022. Room demand decreased by 5.4%, falling from 1,405,900 room nights in July 2022 to 1,330,300 room nights in August 2022 while room supply remained unchanged at 1,725,300 available room nights.
For the first eight months of 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 18.7 percentage points from 55.9% in 2021 to 74.6% in the first eight months of 2022. ADR increased by 16.9% from $319.94 in 2021 to $373.99 in 2022 while revpar grew by 55.9%, from $178.84 in the first eight months of 2021 to $278.86 in the first eight months of this year.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 81.5% in 2019 to 74.6% in 2022. ADR however improved by 31.4% from $284.56 in the first eight months of 2019 to $373.99 in the same eight months of 2022, while RevPar grew by 20.2%, from $232.01 in 2019 to $278.86 in the same eight months of 2022.
In the first eight months of 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 63.8% from $2.30 billion in 2021 to $3.77 billion in the first eight months of this year. Total rooms revenues for the first eight months of 2022 were 23.6% higher than for the same eight months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 40.1%, from 7,189,800 room nights in 2021 to 10,072,100 in the same eight months of 2022. Room supply grew by 5.0% to 13,508,000 available room nights also in the first eight months.
Room demand in 2022 was 6.0% lower than for the same eight months of 2019 while room supply was 2.8% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For August, the survey included 153 properties representing 46,417 rooms, or 83.4 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. The August survey included 76 properties on O‘ahu representing 28,071 rooms (91.6%); 42 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,999 rooms (74.8%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,889 rooms (69.5%); and 19 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,458 rooms (75.0%).
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Cuba announces it received 136,565 international stopover visitors in August 2022,  10.4% fewer than the 152,480 received in July.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals decreased by 10.4% in August 2022, falling from 152,480 international stopover arrivals in July 2022 to 136,565 arrivals in August 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 22,425 international stopovers in August 2021.
The 136,565 stopovers received in August 2022 were 50.7% of the 269,310 international visitors received in August 2019.
Cuba received 39,514 stopovers from Canada in August 2022, 28.9% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to just 447 this August.
In the first eight months of 2022 Cuba saw a 493.3% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 163,724 arrivals in 2021 to 971,456 stopovers this year. The 971,456 arrivals were 31.1% of the 3,126,071 international visitors received in the first eight months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 7,366 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021, to 298,410 in the same eight months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 30.7% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 103,022 in the first eight months of 2021 to 38,488 in the same eight months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 212,485 of all international visitors arriving in the first eight months of 2022, up from 16,518 in the same eight months of 2021.

​Cancun saw its hotels achieve an average hotel room occupancy of 76.7% in August 2022, a decrease of 7.3 percentage points from the 84.0% reported for July.
Sedetur, the Department of Tourism of the state of Quintana Roo, recently released the hotel occupancy numbers for the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos and Riviera Augusta for August 2022.
In August, the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos saw a 7.3 percentage point decrease in average hotel room occupancy from 84.0% in July 2022 to 76.7% in August 2022. Cancun’s hotels reported an average hotel room occupancy of 57.7% in August 2021.
The 76.7% average room occupancy for August 2022 was 3.9 percentage points higher than the 72.8% achieved in August 2019.
The hotels in Riviera Augusta saw a 4.1 percentage point decrease in average hotel room occupancy falling from 80.8% in July 2022 to 76.7% in August 2022. The hotels in Riviera Augusta averaged a 58.4% room occupancy in August 2021. The same hotels reported an average hotel room occupancy of 75.1% in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 the hotels in Cancun/Puerto Morelos achieved a 76.6% average room occupancy, up 25.3 percentage points from the 51.3% achieved in the same eight months of 2021. The hotels achieved an average occupancy of 79.3% in the first eight months of 2019.
For the first eight months of 2022 the hotels in Riviera Augusta achieved an average room occupancy of 76.5%, up 30.6 percentage points from the 45.9% achieved in the same eight months of 2021. The hotels achieved an average occupancy of 81.4% in the first eight months of 2019.
As of August 2022, Riviera Augusta/Tulum has 446 hotels offering 52,511 hotel rooms while the Cancun/Puerto Morelos area has 268 hotels offering 47,471 hotel rooms. 
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The Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 116,409 departing passengers in August 2022, 5.7% fewer than the 123,413 departing passengers handled in July.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in August 2022 116,409 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 5.7% fewer than the 123,413 RGPs who departed in July 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport handled 99,093 RGPs in August 2021.
The airport also handled 10,237 passengers in transit in August 2022 as well as seven transferring passengers.
In August 2022 88,484 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 1,585 pax to Canada, 10,144 pax to Europe, 10,970 pax to Latin America and 5,226 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 142,763 outbound seats in August 2022, 1.8% more than the 140,243 seats provided in August 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in August experienced an average load factor of 95.2%, 97.0% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged a 90.9% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for August was 89.4%.
In the first eight months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 816,965 RGPs, up 46.6% compared with the 557,354 handled in the first eight months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 33.0%, from 470,930 RGPs in the first eight months of 2021 to 626,461 in the same eight months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 901 RGPs in 2021 to 15,065 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 66.1%, from 39,185 RGPS in the first eight months of 2021 to 65,097 RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 27.2% through the first eight months of 2022 from 858,496 available seats in the first eight months of 2021 to 1,091,937 seats in the same eight months of 2022. The 1,091,937 seats available in 2022 were 91.8% of the 1,188,950 seats available in the first eight months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 69.9% in the first eight months of 2021 to 82.8% in the same eight months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 70.6% in the first eight months of 2021 to 83.9% in the same eight months of 2022.
On September 17th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,584,938 available seats for CY 2022, 6.8% fewer than the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,070,562 seats to the USA, 0.5% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled from the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,209,502 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,358,589 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.5% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019 and the 2023 projected total is 12.3% higher than the total for 2022 and 7.3% higher than the 2019 total.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.
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Trinidad and Tobago received 21,429 stopover visitors in August 2022, 12.9% fewer than the 24,612 stopover visitors received in July.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 21,429 stopover visitors in August 2022, a decrease of 12.9% compared with the 24,612 stopovers received in July 2022.
Trinidad received 20,513 stopover visitors in August 2022 with Tobago receiving 916.
Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 3,689 stopover visitors in August 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 21,429 stopover visitors received in August 2022 were 64.8% of the 33,083 stopover visitors received in August 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 10,312 stopover arrivals from the USA in August 2022, 2,995 from Europe, 2,253 from Canada and 5,869 from the rest of the world.
In the first eight months of 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 8,102 in the first eight months of 2021 to 136,129 in the first eight months of 2022.
The 136,129 visitors received in 2022 were 50.9% of the 267,656 received in the first eight months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 4,074 in the first eight months of 2021 to 68,936 in the same eight months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 735 stopovers in the first eight months of 2021, to 15,191 in the same eight months of 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 1,303 in 2021 to 18,827 in the same eight months of 2022.
Trinidad received 130,756 stopovers in the first eight months of 2022, 96.1% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 5,373 stopovers.

U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations increased by 26.7% in June 2022 compared to May.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for June 2022.

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 26.7% in June 2022, growing from 6,853,148 trips in May 2022 to 8,680,304 trips in June 2022.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 21.3%, growing from 787,895 trips in May 2022 to 955,953 trips in June 2022.
• Given that many countries had restrictions in place in June 2021, limiting international arrivals, 764,838 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in June of 2021.
• The 955,953 trips taken to the Caribbean in June 2022 were 2.5% fewer than the 980,935 trips taken to the Caribbean in June 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased however from 9.4% in June 2019 to 11.0% in June 2022.
• Trips to Europe increased by 35.8% in June, growing from 1,663,664 trips in May 2022 to 2,258,863 trips in June 2022. Trips to Europe were 26.0% of trips taken by US citizens in June 2022. The 2,258,863 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in June 2022 were 87.7% of the 2,574,573 trips taken to Europe in June 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air increased by 19.7%, growing from 1,074,409 trips in May 2022 to 1,285,927 trips in June 2022. The 1,285,927 trips were 24.4% more than the 1,033,502 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in June 2019.
• The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 9.9% in June 2019 to 14.8% in June 2022.

Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.

In the first six months of 2022

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 89.3% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 18.9 million trips in the first six months of 2021 to 35.7 million trips in the same six months of 2022.
• The 35,726,612 total international trips taken in the first six months of 2022 were 74.8% of the 47,765,856 trips taken in the first six months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 70.6% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 2,671,625 trips in 2021, to 4,556,767 trips in the first six months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 14.2% in 2021 to 12.8% in 2022.
• The 4,556,767 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first six months of 2022 were 87.1% of the 5,229,304 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first six months of 2019.
• Trips to Europe grew from 988,885 trips in the first six months of 2021 to 6,522,955 trips in the same six months of 2022. The 6,522,955 trips taken in 2022 were 72.8% of the 8,960,061 trips taken to Europe in the first six months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 51.8%, from 4,312,429 trips in the first six months of 2021 to 6,547,367 in the same six months of 2022. The 6,547,367 trips were 22.0% more than the 5,368,209 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first six months of 2019. This segment’s share of all trips fell from 22.8% in the first six months of 2021 to 18.3% in the same six months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 11.2% share seen in the first six months of 2019.

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Dubai received 980,000 international visitors in July 2022, a 3.2% increase in visitors compared with June 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw a 3.2% increase in the number of international visitors in July 2022, growing from 950,000 visitors in June 2022 to 980,000 in July 2022.
Dubai received 330,000 international visitors in July 2021.
The 980,000 visitors received in July 2022 was 19.7% fewer  than the 1,220,000 international visitors received in July 2019.
The number one source market in July was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 135,000 visitors, followed by India with 117,000 visitors and Oman with 93,000 visitors.
In the first seven months of 2022 Dubai received 8,100,000 international visitors, 184.2% more than the 2,850,000 visitors received in the first seven months of 2021, and 84.6% of the 9,580,000 visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first seven months of 2022 was India which generated 975,000 visitors, 12.0% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 880,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 678,000 visitors.
As of July 2022, Dubai had 583 hotels offering 115,327 hotel rooms and 191 apartment hotels offering 25,673 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 72.0% in the first seven months of 2022 with an ADR of US$146.59 and a RevPar of US$105.18. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 77.0%.
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Punta Cana received 358,399 tourists in August 2022, 14.3% fewer than the 418,295 tourists who visited in July.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 358,399 stopovers in August 2022, 14.3% fewer than the 418,295 stopovers received in July 2022 but 38.7% more than the 258,457 stopovers received in August 2019.
Punta Cana received 218,245 visitors in August 2021.
Punta Cana received 145,591 stopover arrivals from the USA in August 2022, 40.6% of all tourist arrivals and 24.0% fewer than the 191,535 stopovers received in July 2022.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 18.3% in August 2022 from the 123,112 arrivals received from the USA in August 2021  Traffic from Canada increased from 11,076 arrivals in August 2021 to 37,654 arrivals in August 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in the month of February 2022 to just 86 arrivals in August 2022.
Also, in August traffic from France grew from 13,144 stopovers in August 2021 to 15,527 in August this year while traffic from Germany grew from 5,859 arrivals in August 2021 to 10,663 in August 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 119 in August 2021 to 18,692 in August 2022. Colombia generated 19,217 stopovers in August 2022 while Argentina generated 13,984.
In August 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.6% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 45.8% in August 2021.
Hotels in Punta Cana achieved an average room occupancy of 82.2% in August 2022 compared to 71.4% in August 2019.
During the first eight months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 138.0% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,192,238 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 2,837,931 non-resident arrivals in the first eight months of 2022. The total for 2022 was 6.7% more than the 2,659,487 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 52.3% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 790,876 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 1,204,537 arrivals in the same eight months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 20,603 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 358,038 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 1,060 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 128,761 stopovers in the same eight months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 167.1% from Colombia, was up 302.1% from Germany, up 124.6% from Spain and up 311.5% from France.
Hotels in Punta Cana achieved an average room occupancy of 79.0% in the first eight months of 2022 compared with 82.1% in the first eight months of 2019.
In the first eight months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.9% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 40.6% in the same eight months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 621,953 tourists in August 2022, 15.4% fewer than the 735,064 tourists who visited in July.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 621,953 stopovers in August 2022, 15.4% fewer than the 735,064 stopovers received in July 2022 but 25.0% more than the 497,390 stopovers received in August 2019.
The Dominican Republic received 476,575 stopover visitors in August 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 232,279 stopover arrivals from the USA in August 2022, 41.5% of all tourist arrivals and 4.9% more than the 305,062 stopovers received in July 2022. The Dominican Republic received 213,134 arrivals from the USA in August 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 11,551 arrivals in August 2021 to 45,672 arrivals in August 2022.
As well, traffic from France grew from 15,853 stopovers in August 2021 to 17,496 in August this year while traffic from Germany grew from 7,489 arrivals in August 2021 to 13,237 in August 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 381 in August 2021 to 19,399 in August 2022. Colombia generated 23,592 stopovers in August 2022 while Argentina generated 15,827.
Hotels in the Dominican Republic achieved an average room occupancy of 76.4% in August 2022 compared to 65.5% in August 2019.
In August 2022 19.2% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 24.9% of all arrivals in August 2021.
In the first eight months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 66.9% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 2,938,205 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 4,904,162 non-resident arrivals in the same eight months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 32.5% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 1,417,903 arrivals in 2021 to 1,878,178 arrivals from the USA in the first eight months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 24,718 in the first eight months of 2021 to 430,423 in the same eight months of 2022.
The 4,904,431 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 were 5.2% more than the 4,664,036 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
Hotels in the Dominican Republic achieved an average room occupancy of 72.9% in the first eight months of 2022 compared with 77.3% in the first eight months of 2019.
In the first eight months of 2022 18.3% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 29.6% in the same eight months of 2021.
 
Airbnb has ideas about how governments can improve remote work
In a new white paper, the home-rental platform suggests improving the visa process, encouraging visitor support of the local economy, and streamlining tax compliance.
By Jessica Bursztynsky | Fast Company | September 15th 2022
Airbnb is proposing a number of policy changes that governments and cities could adapt to improve remote work across the globe.
The home-rental platform released a white paper Thursday morning outlining steps that locations and lawmakers can take “to leverage the rise of remote work for their communities.” Recommendations include improving the visa process, encouraging visitor support of the local economy, and streamlining tax compliance.
“We don’t want to come in acting like we have the answers at this point. No one’s an expert and we want to be humble about our role, but I do think we’re well suited to be the platform for information-sharing across the world since we have such a large footprint,” Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb cofounder and chief strategy officer, tells Fast Company. “This stuff is not necessarily straightforward, especially at the international level,” he adds, pointing to the visa process and tax codes.
Airbnb has internally been supportive of remote work. In April, the company announced a new policy that allows employees to live and work from anywhere. That includes the ability to work from 170 countries for up to 90 days per year in each location.
Broadly speaking, the rise of remote work has been a boon to Airbnb. The company says long-term stays, which it defines as 28 days or more, are its fastest-growing category by trip length.
Workers in a new country are likely to take long weekends or short trips to explore the area, where they could use Airbnb to book additional lodging and experiences, Blecharczyk says. They could also use the platform to visit a country ahead of time before moving for remote work.
But the proposal also benefits the locations and economies that people are visiting, Airbnb emphasizes. In the white paper, the company points to a 2021 report from the Economic Innovation Group, which found that a remote worker incentive program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, generated nearly $20 million in additional local GDP and about $1.6 million in state and local tax revenue in 2021. It adds that every dollar spent on the incentive program resulted in $2.38 in new labor income locally.
Separate from the Airbnb report, a Pew Research Center study published in February found that 60% of workers with remote-friendly jobs would prefer to work remotely all or most of the time following the pandemic.
After reviewing the processes of more than three dozen countries that implement some sort of digital nomad-friendly visa system, Airbnb suggests that governments adopt remote worker visa programs, streamline and simplify the application process, and offer remote worker visas for more than one year. Those visas should also be privy to expedited approval (under three weeks) and a discounted rate, Airbnb says, adding that countries ought to limit the requirements for a remote worker applicant.
Tax and financial incentives can also be used to bring in remote workers and reduce the tax burden on the employee and their employer. Airbnb advises that governments not tax foreign sources of income, extend tourist tax exemptions for visitors with a remote work visa who want to book accommodation for their trips, and outline clear rules for what constitutes a permanent establishment.
Other recommended measures include lodging credits, high-speed internet support, discounts, and volunteering opportunities to help integrate the individual in the area.
Airbnb has so far partnered with 20 destinations globally to develop digital remote work hubs, which have both long-term listing options and links to information around entry requirements and tax policies. The hubs, which are rolling out now through the end of the year, include Bali, Dubai, rural France, and Tampa Bay, Florida.
“We’re just all about supporting those who want to get out of their bubble and go somewhere new,” Blecharczyk says.
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Curacao reports it received 42,633 stopover arrivals in August 2022, 11.6% fewer than the 48,246 received in July.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw an 11.6% decrease in stopover visitor arrivals in August, falling from 48,246 stopovers received in July 2022 to 42,633 stopovers received in August 2022.
The 42,633 stopovers received in August 2022 were 9.5% more than the 38,933 stopovers received in August 2019.
Curaçao received 30,853 stopover visitors in August 2021.
Curacao received 18,877 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in August 2022 and 8,927 stopovers from the USA, 44.3% and 20.9% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after having been closed for renovation.
Curacao received eight cruise ship calls with 26,361 cruise visitors in August 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 11 calls with 11,850 passengers in August of 2021. The 26,361 cruise visitors were 76.3% of the 34,531 received in August 2019.
In the first eight months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 159.5% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 122,707 visitors in 2021 to 318,432 visitors in the same eight months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 124.5%, growing from 73,445 visitors during the first eight months of 2021, to 164,915 in the same eight months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 160.6% during the first eight months, growing from 21,668 in 2021 to 56,471 in the same eight months of 2022.
The 318,432 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 was 1.4% more than the 313,954 stopovers received in the same eight months of 2019. The 164,915 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first eight months of 2022 was 27.8% more than the 129,045 received from the Netherlands in the first eight months of 2019.
In the first eight months of 2022 Curacao received 174 cruise ship calls which brought 285,794 cruise passengers, 56.8% of the 503,419 cruise visitors brought in the same eight months of 2019.

Aruba received 100,770 stopover visitors in August 2022, 7.6% fewer than the 109,006 stopovers received in July.
According to Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 100,770 stopover arrivals in August 2022, 7.6% fewer than the 109,006 stopovers it received in July 2022 but 4.9% more than the 96,100 stopover visitors received in August 2019.
Compared with 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 10.3%, growing from 70,990 arrivals in August 2019 to 78,307 arrivals in August 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 777.7% of all arrivals in August 2022 up from 73.9% in August 2019.
Arrivals from Canada decreased by 11.3%, falling from 2,879 in August 2019 to 2,555 stopovers in August 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands decreased by 2.0%, falling from 3,302 in August 2019 to 3,236 in August of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in August 2021 and during August 2022 received 10 cruise ship calls and a total of 32,063 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in August 2022 declined by 4.9% compared with August 2019, falling from 51,547 visitors in 2019 to 49,031 in August 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 53.6% in August 2019 to 46.7% in August 2022.
29,134 visitors used timeshare accommodation in August 2022, 7.7% more than the 27,040 visitors who used such accommodation in August 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 28.1% in August 2019 to 28.9% in August 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 29.1% when comparing August 2019 with August 2022, growing from 17,513 visitors in 2019 to 22,605 in August 2022, with the share growing from 18.2% in 2019 to 22.4% in 2022.
In August 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 31,847 non-resident visitors, 31.6% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 21,523 non-resident visitors, 22.4% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 13,524 visitors with Delta bringing in 10,564 visitors. These four carriers brought in 76.9% of all visitors in August of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old fell from 49.6% in August 2019 to 49.5% in August 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older grew from 15.0% in August 2019 to 15.2% in August of this year.
In the first eight months of 2022 Aruba saw a 45.6% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 506,795 visitors in the first eight months of 2021 to 738,101 visitors in the first eight months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 32.5% during the first eight months, from 444,535 in the first eight months of 2021 to 588,932 in the same eight months of 2022.
The 738,101 stopover visitors received in the first eight months of 2022 was 95.2% of the 775,213 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2019.
The 588,932 stopovers received from the USA in the first eight months of 2022, was 0.5% more than the 586,058 stopovers received from the USA in the first eight months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.6% in the first eight months of 2019 to 79.8% in the same eight months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first eight months of 2022 declined by 16.3% compared with the same eight months of 2019, falling from 402,439 visitors in 2019 to 336,970 in the same eight months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.9% in the first eight months of 2019 to 45.7% in the same eight months of 2022.
In the first eight months of 2022 207,619 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 5.4% more than the 218,900 visitors who used such accommodation in the first eight months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.8% in 2019 to 29.7% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 10.3% when comparing the first eight months of 2019 with the same eight months of 2022, growing from 165,155 visitors in 2019 to 182,231 in 2022, with the share growing from 21.7% in 2019 to 25.0% in 2022.
In the first eight months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 222,298 non-resident visitors, 30.1% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 154,797 non-resident visitors, 21.0% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 104,076 visitors with Delta bringing in 82,130 visitors. These four carriers brought in 76.3% of all visitors in the first eight months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 45.0% in the first eight months of 2019 to 47.5% in the same eight months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 20.2% in 2019 to 18.4% in 2022.
Aruba received 184 cruise ship calls in the first eight months of 2022 with 329,645 cruise passengers compared with the 198 calls cruise ships made in the same eight months of 2019 with 521,017 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 31.9%, from 2,631 visitors  in 2019 to 1,792 visitors in 2022.
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IATA warns Caribbean at risk of pricing itself out of travel market
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) Wednesday warned Caribbean destinations that they are “running the risk of pricing themselves out of the global travel and tourism market where passengers have more choice than ever before.”
IATA Vice President for the Americas,  Peter Cerdá told the Caribbean Aviation Day conference here that the region “needs to remain an attractive tourist destination,” adding that often it is difficult to see the correlation between aviation fees and the service provided.
He told the conference that the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts a possible annual 6.7 per cent travel and tourism GDP increase between 2022 and 2023 if the right policies are implemented.
Cerdá said that as the world emerges from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the good news is that people want to travel, and this is made very clear by the ongoing recovery.
“Global passenger air traffic has reached 74.6 per cent of pre-crisis levels,” Cerdá told the event, which is being held under the theme “Recover, Reconnect, Revive.”
“A recurring theme is also taxes and charges levied on aviation. Yes, we understand that the provision of adequate infrastructure for aviation comes at a cost, but very often it is difficult to see the correlation between the level of cost and charges and the actual service provided,” Cerdá said.
To illustrate his point, Cerdá said that in some Caribbean destinations, if passengers are not arriving during “regular” local business hours, airlines are being charged significant overtime fees for each passenger to be processed by immigration and customs.
“Aviation is not a 9 to 5 business. Global connectivity is around the clock. This process is simply unacceptable and makes no sense as those very same passengers are the ones staying at local hotels, eating at local restaurants, and fueling local economies, no matter what time they arrive. So why penalize and charge airlines extra who transport these passengers?”  Cerdá said.
“Why not change the mindset and adjust customs staffing levels accordingly and attract more airlines to the market?”
He said that the taxes and fees added to airline tickets substantially increase the cost of air travel to and from the region.
“By way of comparison, at a global level taxes and charges makeup approximately 15 per cent of the ticket price and in the Caribbean the average is double this at approximately 30 per cent of the ticket price,” Cerdá said, adding that in some markets, taxes, fees, and charges makeup half of the total ticket price.
He said that for flights from Barbados to Barbuda, taxes and fees represent 56 per cent of the ticket price, and 42 per cent from the Bahamas to Jamaica, the same as from St. Lucia to Trinidad and Tobago.
To fly from Port of Spain to Barbados, taxes and fees account for 40 per cent of the ticket prices.
“In comparison, Lima, Peru to Cancun, Mexico, another beach destination, taxes and fees only represent 23 per cent,” Cerdá said.
“Today’s passengers have a choice and as the total cost of vacations increasingly becomes a decision-making factor, governments must be prudent and not price themselves out of the market,” he said.
The IATA vice president said that a flight for an eight-day vacation from London to Bridgetown in October is around US$800. However, a flight from London to Dubai for the same time frame is US$600.
“For a family of four, that is an $800 difference just for the flights,” he said, noting that from Miami to Antigua, it costs around US$900 for a round trip ticket for the same dates in October but from Miami to Cancun averages around $310 for a round trip ticket.
“Again, for a family of four, that is a total difference of over $2,000 just for the flights,” Cerda said.
He said that air travel demand is close to reaching pre-pandemic levels “but to support a sustainable aviation sector as an integral part of the tourism value chain we need governments to cooperate amongst themselves and with the industry.”
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Revenue from international tourism in Mexico increased 64.6% compared to 2021
Data show that just over 36.8 million tourists and visitors spent US $16.48 billion here in the first seven months of the year
Mexico News Daily | Monday, September 12, 2022
International tourists and visitors spent almost US $16.5 billion in Mexico between January and July, an increase of nearly 65% compared to the same period of 2021, Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco reported Sunday.
Data from the national statistics agency INEGI show that just over 36.8 million tourists and visitors (day trippers and cruise ship passengers, for example) spent $16.48 billion here in the first seven months of the year.
The monetary figure is 64.6% higher than that for the same period of last year and 8.3% above that for 2019, when the tourism sector hadn’t yet been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Foreigners’ expenditure last month totaled $2.67 billion; a 21% increase compared to July 2021.
In a statement, Torruco also said that just under 21.7 million international tourists came to Mexico between January and July, a 25.5% increase compared to the same period of last year, but a 17.3% decline compared to 2019.
They spent an average of $719 each while in the country, an increase of 32.9% compared to last year. Those who arrived by air – just over 12.5 million people – spent $1,131 on average, a 3.4% increase compared to 2021.
In a Twitter post on Sunday, Torruco highlighted the increase in tourism revenue, declaring that it showed that Mexico is on a “good path.”

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 82.4% average room occupancy in August 2022, up 0.2 percentage points from the 82.2% achieved in July.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in August 2022 was 82.4%, 0.2 percentage points higher than the 82.2% achieved in July 2022.
Aruba’s hotels achieved a 71.0% average room occupancy in August 2021.
Average occupancy in August 2022 was 4.5 percentage points lower than the 86.9% average room occupancy achieved in August 2019.
ADR was $289.64 in August 2022, 14.7% higher than in August 2021, and 21.8% higher than in August 2019.
RevPar was $238.52 in August 2022, 33.1% higher than in August 2021 and 15.4% higher than in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 74.0% compared with 52.7% for the first eight months of 2021. Again, compared with the first eight months of 2021, ADR grew by 21.1% from $256.00 in 2021 to $310.05 in the first eight months of 2022. RevPar grew by 70.0% from $134.87 in 2021 to $229.31 in the first eight months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019 average room occupancy was 12.3 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 8.6%, higher and revpar was 7.0% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,360 rooms, about 94% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 86% in August 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 72% for September, 74% for October, 77% for November and 75% for 2022 overall.

​Grenada International airlift capacity to return to 2019 levels by November
September 9, 2022
The Grenada Tourism Authority has announced that International airlift capacity will return to 2019 levels by November 2022.
It states 2019 was a benchmark year which saw stayover totals hit a peak annual figure of 162,904 visitors arriving by air.
Out of the US gateway, JetBlue Airlines is currently operating a daily nonstop service from New York’s JFK, an increase from a previous five times per week. American Airlines continues with daily service from Miami and a Saturday weekly service from Charlotte.
Virgin Atlantic Airways returns with a twice weekly service from London Heathrow Airport and via Barbados whilst British Airways has recently announced that from October 30, 2022, they will be increasing their London Gatwick service from twice weekly through St Lucia to three times weekly, with the third flight coming through Antigua on Sundays.
Commencing on November 3, the Air Canada twice-weekly direct service from Toronto Pearson International to Maurice Bishop International will resume on Sundays and Thursdays and also in November, leisure carrier Sunwing Airlines will also offer a once-weekly service from Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Condor Airlines restarts in November from Frankfurt, Germany to Grenada nonstop and the return to Germany via Tobago on Sundays starting November 20, 2022.
These new and updated international flights join InterCaribbean Airways which commenced service during the pandemic and now operates twice daily to Grenada from Barbados via St Vincent, Caribbean Airlines which operates four times weekly from Trinidad and once weekly from Barbados and LIAT which operates a twice weekly service from Antigua.
These airlift announcements come on the heels of the recent launch of the twin otter on the Grenada to Carriacou route, which operates twice daily Friday through Tuesday each week. The service allows for seamless same day connectivity with most carriers from Europe, North America and the Caribbean.
Petra Roach, CEO of the Grenada Tourism Authority remarked, “we will continue to strategically build out our airlift capacity and gateways, as connectivity anchors the long-term viability of the tourism industry and is central to our sustainable development as a people.  Our local population has to be able to travel for personal and professional reasons if required or visit family and friends hassle free, so reliable airlift is a top priority.”
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Mauritius reports it received 86,605 stopover visitors in August 2022, 7.9% fewer than the 94,084 stopovers received in July 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 86,605 total stopover arrivals in August 2022, 7.9% fewer than the 94,084 stopovers received in July 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius received 19,101 visitors from France in August 2022, 22.1% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 13,772 visitors, 15.9% of the total for the month. Germany generated 8,397 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020 and reopened its borders to international travel as of October 1st 2021, consequently receiving just 2,499 stopovers in August 2021.
The 86,605 arrivals received in August 2022 were 80.7% of the 107,275 stopovers received in August 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 6,966 in the first eight months of 2021 to 557,245 in the first eight months of this year. The number one source market in the first eight months of 2022 was France with 131,221 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 83,621 stopovers, and South Africa 56,903 stopovers. These three markets together generated 48.8% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 872,805 stopovers through the first eight months of 2019 with the total received during the first eight months of 2022 being 63.8% of this total.
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Seychelles received 29,366 tourist arrivals in August 2022, 5.6% fewer than the 31,124 arrivals received in July.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 5.6% decrease in visitor arrivals in August 2022, falling from 31,124 arrivals received in July 2022 to 29,366 arrivals in August 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 29,366 arrivals, 29,291 were stopover visitors and 75 were transit visitors.
Seychelles received 19,611 tourist arrivals in August 2021.
The 29,366 visitor arrivals received in August 2022 were 87.6% of the 33,536 arrivals received in August 2019.
The number one source market in August 2022 was France which generated 4,647 visitors (15.8% of the total for the month) followed by Germany, with 4,108 visitors (12.6%).
In the first eight months of 2022 Seychelles saw a 140.3% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 90,217 arrivals in the first eight months of 2021 to 216,777 arrivals in the first eight months of 2022. The 216,777 stopovers received in the first eight months of 2022 were 86.7% of the 249,963 received in the first eight months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first eight months of 2022 was France which generated 30,278 visitors, 14.0% of all visitor arrivals for those first eight months, followed by Germany, which generated 27,134 visitors, 12.5% of the overall total. Russia generated 18,738 visitors in the same eight months with the bulk of those arrivals coming in January and February.

​IATA reports July Passenger Demand Remains Strong
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced passenger data for July 2022 showing that the recovery in air travel continues to be strong.
Note: We have returned to year-on-year traffic comparisons, instead of comparisons with the 2019 period, unless otherwise noted. Owing to the low traffic base in 2021, some markets will show very high year-on-year growth rates, even if the size of these markets is still significantly smaller than they were in 2019.
Total traffic in July 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was up 58.8% compared to July 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 74.6% of pre-crisis levels.
Domestic traffic for July 2022 was up 4.1% compared to the year-ago period and is now driving the recovery. Total July 2022 domestic traffic was at 86.9% of the July 2019 level. China saw strong month-to-month improvement compared to June.
International traffic rose 150.6% versus July 2021. July 2022 international RPKs reached 67.9% of July 2019 levels. All markets reported strong growth, led by Asia-Pacific.
“July’s performance continued to be strong, with some markets approaching pre-COVID levels. And that is even with capacity constraints in parts of the world that were unprepared for the speed at which people returned to travel. There is still more ground to recover, but this is an excellent sign as we head into the traditionally slower autumn and winter quarters in the Northern Hemisphere,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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Saint Lucia received 39,145 stopovers in July 2022, 27.5% more than the 30,694 stopovers received in June.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 27.5% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in July 2022, growing from 30,694 stopovers in June 2022 to 39,145 stopovers in July 2022.
Saint Lucia received zero cruise visitors in July. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in July 2021. And Saint Lucia received 1,679 visitors in July 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia received 25,440 stopover arrivals in July 2021.
The 39,145 stopovers received in July 2022 were 91.5% of the 42,773 stopovers received in July 2019.
Saint Lucia received 25,632 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, which comprised 65.5% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 6,101 visitors from the United Kingdom in July 2022.
Through the first seven months of 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 133.5% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 89,922 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 209,929 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 58.0%, from 81,632 in the first seven months of 2021 to 128,946 in the same seven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 5,468 in the first seven months of 2021 to 50,415 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The 209,929 stopovers received in 2022 were 80.0% of the 262,381 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 165,266 cruise visitors in the first seven months of 2022 compared with 484,631 received in the first seven months of 2019 and received 9,804 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 41,499 in the first seven months of 2019.

Jamaica received 233,269 stopover visitors in June 2022, 14.3% more than the 204,011 stopovers received in May.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 233,269 stopover arrivals in June 2022, 14.3% more than the 204,011 stopovers received in May 2022 and 97.6% of the 238,888 stopovers received in June 2019.
Jamaica received 166,046 stopover arrivals in June 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 187,730 in June 2022, that is 0.5% more than the 186,707 stopovers received from the USA in June 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 80.5% of all stopover arrivals received in June 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 74,748 cruise passengers during June 2022.
Through the first six months of 2022 Jamaica saw a 119.8% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 532,545 stopover arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 1,170,496 arrivals in the same six months of 2022.
The 1,170,496 stopovers received in the first six months of 2022 were 84.2% of the 1,390,683 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 74.7% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 508,131 arrivals in 2021 to 887,958 arrivals in the same six months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 95.4% in the first six months of 2021 to 75.9% in the same six months of 2022.
Jamaica has received 286,657 cruise passengers through June 2022, 68.3% fewer than the 902,972 cruise visitors received in the same six months of 2019.

Middle Eastern tourist arrivals to top pre-Covid levels of 100 million this year
DUBAI, September 7th 2022
The Middle East is set to surpass pre-pandemic levels of more than 100 million tourist arrivals and over $270 billion in revenue contribution in 2022 and is on track to reach the  goal of 160 million tourists in 2030, a report said.
Regional hospitality industry has been at the forefront of hotel performance recovery and is witnessing unprecedented growth, according to market insights released by real estate consultants Knight Frank and analytics and marketplace insights provider for the hospitality industry STR.
The key hospitality investment insights were released ahead of the Future Hospitality Summit (FHS) taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from 19-21 September 2022.
“The region is going through a fascinating transformation in the hospitality sector, with over 600,000 hotels rooms in the planning and development stage. This quantum of development, which has not been seen before in the Middle East or even globally, is set to change the shape of the region’s tourism industry in the years to come and will help to further raise the region’s profile as a one of the world’s key hospitality players,” said Turab Saleem, Partner & Head of Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure – Mena at Knight Frank.
The successful management of mega events has proven to be a key driver in the growth in tourism and hospitality, with the UAE welcoming almost 24 million visitors to Expo 2020 Dubai - amid the global pandemic -- boosting international traveler confidence as stated by Knight Frank.
With 65,000 hotel rooms under development in Dubai, tourism contribution is set to reach 15% of GDP by 2030: the highest in the region and among the highest in the world, with an international average of 9%.
The Middle East has been at the forefront of hotel performance recovery throughout the pandemic according to data from STR, and that momentum continues in 2022 and beyond.
Philip Wooller, Senior Director Middle East & Africa at STR said: “Dubai is having a tremendous year with hotel RevPAR for the year-to-date period up to July, 23% higher than 2019. With most destinations in the region rebounding and in many cases surpassing pre pandemic performance levels, investor interest remains high, of which the proof is in the hotel pipeline.
“The success of Expo 2020 in Dubai and a keen interest in Saudi Arabia and the transformative Vision 2030, have boosted investment and fueled the hotel pipeline in the region. With the first mega projects nearing their first phases of completion and new ones being announced, the Kingdom is now firmly among the fastest growing countries globally for hotel development.”
The hospitality market in Qatar is expected to reach $54 billion by 2030, according to Knight Frank. “Hosting the FIFA World Cup is a great opportunity for Qatar to develop its tourism sector to new heights. The country has allocated $45 billion worth of funds for tourism and travel growth by 2030. Presently, there are over 56,000 hotel rooms under development with an estimated value of $7 billion with international brands representing 62% of the inventory in the pipeline,” said Saleem.
Saudi Arabia, which has $110 billion worth of hotel projects planned for completion by 2030 and a total of 310,000 hotel keys under development, has one of the most ambitious tourism targets in the region with the goal of 100 million tourists by 2030.
The pandemic undoubtedly cast uncertainty upon the hospitality landscape with hotel investment impacted over the past few years, but market sentiment has significantly improved and, given the GCC’s aggressive growth plans in tourism and hospitality which are well-supported by its national airlines, the outlook for the sector is bright.
“Hotel performance for the Middle East region is getting close to a full pre-pandemic recovery in 2022 which would be an outstanding outcome,” added Wooller. “Hotel rates are the main driver of RevPAR so far with occupancy also closing in on 2019 levels. Meanwhile, anticipation is high for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar and the effect it will have on both national and regional hotel performance.”
The region’s hospitality investment outlook, hotel performance and tourism plans will be discussed in detail at FHS in Dubai next month, with more than 120 top level speakers and over 40 sessions in a range of different formats including keynote presentations, workshops and panel discussions.
Hosted by Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and co-organized by The Bench and Meed, FHS unites the investment communities of the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC), Global Restaurant Investment Forum (GRIF) and African Hospitality Investment Forum (AHIF) under one roof under the theme Lead the Change. – Trade Arabia News Service.
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​Cancun saw a 10.2% decrease in international air passenger movements in August 2022 compared with July.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 10.2% decrease in international passenger movements in August 2022, falling from 1,840,238 movements in July 2022 to 1,653,404 movements in August 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 3.5%, growing from 1,036,208 passenger movements in July 2022 to 1,072,363 movements in August 2022.
The 1,653,404 international passenger movements were 33.6% more than the 1,237,207 handled in August 2021 and were also 27.0% more than the 1,301,415 passengers handled in August 2019.
And while the 1,072,363 domestic passenger movements were 30.0% more than the 824,710 handled in August 2021 they were also 23.6% more than the 867,640 domestic passengers handled in August 2019.
In the first eight months of 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 65.7%, growing from 8,129,187 movements in 2021 to 13,467,783 movements in the first eight months of 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 16.1%, growing from 5,814,426 movements in the first eight months of 2021 to 6,749,418 in the same eight months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in 2022 was 14.3% more than the 2019 total, growing from 11,781,655 movements in 2019 to 13,467,783 movements in the first eight months of 2022, while the volume of 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 12.5% more than the 2019 total, growing from 6,001,677 movements in the first eight months of 2019 to 6,749,418 in the same eight months of 2022.
In the first eight months of 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 66.6% of all passenger movements, up from 58.3% in 2021, and up slightly from the 66.3% achieved in the first eight months of 2019.

San Juan International Airport handled 819,719 domestic passenger movements in August 2022, 8.2% fewer than the 892,509 handled in July.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU),   reports that SJU saw an 8.2% decline in domestic passenger traffic in August 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements from flights to and from the continental United States, falling from 892,509 domestic passenger movements in July 2022 to 819,719 domestic passenger movements in August 2022.
San Juan International Airport handled 872,000 domestic passenger movements in August 2021, 6.4% more than in August 2022.
The 818,719 domestic passenger movements handled in August 2022 were 11.8% more than the 733,331 domestic movements handled in August 2019.
International traffic, that is flights to and from airports outside the continental United States, decreased by 24.7%, falling from 114,213 passenger movements in July 2022 to 85,959 passenger movements in August 2022. San Juan International Airport handled 63,781 international passenger movements in August 2021.
The 85,959 international passenger movements seen in August 2022 were 5.2% more than the 81,712 international passenger movements handled in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 San Juan International Airport saw domestic passenger movements increase by 4.8%, from 6,173,739 in 2021 to 6,467,266 in the first eight months of 2022. International passenger movements increased by 95.3% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 317,202 passenger movements in 2021 to 619,348 passengers in the first eight months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019 domestic passenger movements were up by 11.5%, while international movements decreased by 11.5%.
In the first eight months of 2022 domestic passenger movements were 91.3% of all passenger movements compared to 80.2% in the first eight months of 2019.
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Los Cabos handled 338,300 international passenger movements in August 2022, 17.6% fewer than the 410,700 handled in July.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 17.6% decline in international passenger traffic in August 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, falling from 410,700 international passenger movements in July 2022 to 338,300 international passenger movements in August 2022.
Los Cabos handled 311,600 international passenger movements in August 2021.
The 338,300 international passenger movements handled in August 2022 were 29.9% more than the 260,500 international movements handled in August 2019.
Domestic traffic increased by 1.4%, growing from 256,700 passenger movements in July 2022 to 260,200 passenger movements in August 2022. Los Cabos handled 191,400 domestic passenger movements in August 2021.
The 260,200 domestic passenger movements seen in August 2022 were 29.3% more than the 201,300 domestic passenger movements handled in August 2019.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 37.4%, from 2,226,600 in 2021 to 3,058,500 in the first eight months of 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 30.4% in the first eight months of 2022, growing from 1,274,000 passengers in 2021 to 1,661,200 passengers in the first eight months of 2022.
By comparison with the first eight months of 2019 international passenger movements were up by 17.8%, while domestic movements increased by 27.4%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 405,800 total passenger movements in August 2022, 5.7% fewer than the 430,300 handled in July.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport decline by 5.7% in August 2022, falling from 430,300 total movements in July 2022 to 405,800 movements in August 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in August 2022 was 1.1% more than the 401,500 passengers handled in August 2019.
Montego Bay Airport handled 294,100 passenger movements in August 2021.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 86.3%, from 1,569,900 in 2021 to 2,925,100 in the first eight months of 2022. The 2022 total of 2,925,100 movements was 86.9% of the 3,365,200 passenger movements handled in the first eight months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 184,400 total passenger movements in August 2022, an increase of 4.6% compared with July.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 4.6% in August 2022, growing from 176,300 total movements in July 2022 to 184,400 total passenger movements in August 2022. Numbers for August 2019 are not available.
Kingston Airport handled 97,300 passengers in August 2021.
Through the first eight months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 101.3%, from 492,900 in 2021 to 992,100 in the first eight months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.
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Mexico received 1,925,283 international air arrivals in July 2022, up 5.9% compared with June.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,925,283 international air arrivals in July 2022, up 5.9% compared with the 1,818,342 arrivals received in June 2022.
Mexico received 1,553,713 international visitors in July 2021.
The 1,925,283 international air arrivals received in July 2022 were 15.3% more than the 1,669,953 international air visitors received in July 2019.
Mexico received 1,308,590 air visitors from the USA in July 2022, 68.0% of the total. Canada was the second biggest market (85,995 visitors) with Colombia third largest (74,344 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 890,831 international air visitor arrivals in July 2022, 46.3% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 198,653 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 128,086  international air visitors.
In the first seven months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 70.2%, from 7,163,956 arrivals in 2021 to 12,191,287 arrivals in the same seven months of 2022. The 12,191,287 arrivals received in the first seven months of 2022 were 3.4% higher than the 11,789,246 international arrivals received in the first seven months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 40.9% in the first seven months of 2022, from 5,653,783 air arrivals in 2021 to 7,968,247 air arrivals in the first seven months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 72,857 in 2021 to 945,575 in the first seven months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw a 72.0% increase in international air arrivals in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 3,322,191 arrivals in 2021 to 5,714,249 arrivals in the first seven months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 42.0% increase growing from 931,874 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,323,313 air arrivals in the first seven months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw an 89.9% increase, growing from 544,282 international arrivals in 2021 to 1,033,796 international arrivals in the same seven months of 2022.
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September Is Expected To Stay Busy In Cabo And Hotel Prices Will Remain High
Cabo Sun | September 1, 2022
Even though the summer is effectively over Cabo hotels don’t anticipate that September will be completely an off month for them. The Los Cabos Hotels Association announced that their facilities featured a 64% occupancy rate on average throughout the month of August. That rate is 3% higher than the occupancy levels that Cabo hotels saw in the same month throughout 2019. While there is expected to be a significant drop in occupancy rates in September, the typically “worst month of the year”, for Cabo hotels may not be so bad this year. That could hurt tourists who are looking for discount rates to travel to the region. 
Hotel Rates In Los Cabos Are Set To Remain The Most Expensive In Mexico    
The president of the Hotels’ Association of Los Cabos, Lilzi Orcí Fregoso, revealed that nightly rates at Cabo hotels are the most expensive in the country. Even though September is typically the worst month of the year for Cabo hotels the average nightly rate in the region is set to remain at over 400 dollars. Lilzi Fregoso had this to say about Los Cabos’ post COVID recovery, 
“We’re closing up August with an unofficial occupancy rate of 64%, this would surpass the tendency that we saw in 2019 by 3%. The tendency to grow by 3% each year was a number that we were seeing before the pandemic. The rates are better than expected at over 400 dollars a night.”   
There Will Still Be Considerably Fewer People In Los Cabos Throughout September 
Although the rates for hotels may stay consistent at over 400 dollars a night, one of the advantages that tourists who come to the region during this month will have, is that Cabo is set to be considerably less crowded. Hotel occupancy rates are set to drop to around 45%. There are at least a couple of factors that make September a bad month, one of them being the fact that it comes right after the summer boom.
At the same time it’s still typically about a month before whales start to arrive in the region. These two factors tend to discourage people from visiting Cabo in September. However, the Los Cabos Hotels’ Association thinks business will be just fine through September. Lilzi Fregoso mentioned, 
“September is historically the worst month in Los Cabos in terms of hotel occupancy for a variety of reasons. We are expecting to remain at 45% occupancy, which is typical of the season. Being at a 45% occupancy rate is very “healthy”, business will manage to stay afloat. It’s also an important part of the year because it allows businesses to provide maintenance to facilities and train staff for busier seasons.”   
The Amount of Money Tourists Spend In Cabo On Average Could Continue To Rise
It’s not only nightly rates that are seemingly expensive in Cabo, by Mexico standards at least. The average amount of money spent by tourists on a Cabo vacation could continue to climb, particularly as we move into the last quarter of the year, which is typically a very good quarter for Cabo tourism. Average nightly rates at Cabo resorts could very well hit over 450 dollars in the next few months and heading into 2023. 
 
Orlando’s Airports saw a 34.8% increase in international deplanements in July 2022.
Orlando, Florida is served by two primary airports, Orlando International (MCO) and Sanford International Airport (SFB).
In July 2022, the two airports combined saw an increase of 34.8% in international deplanements, growing from 234,447 deplanements from international airports in June 2022 to 315,956 international deplanements in July 2022. Orlando International handled 99.1% of all international deplanements.
International deplanements made up 13.0% of total deplanements in July 2022.
The two airports combined saw a 4.3% increase in domestic deplanements, that is from airports within the USA, growing from 2,023,900 domestic deplanements in June 2022 to 2,112,070 in July 2022.
In the first seven months of 2022, the two airports combined saw an increase of 283.1% in international deplanements, growing from 400,023 deplanements from international airports in the first seven months of 2021 to 1,532,340 international deplanements in the first seven months of 2022. The 1,532,340 international deplanements were 67.6% of the 2,266,635 international deplanements received in the first seven months of 2019.
The two airports combined saw a 22.0% increase in domestic deplanements, that is from airports within the USA, growing from 11,408,166 domestic deplanements in the first seven months of 2021 to 13,914,804 in the same seven months of 2022. Domestic deplanements handled in 2022 were 99.9% of the 13,924,708 domestic deplanements handled in the first seven months of 2019.
The two airports combined saw a 30.8% increase in total deplanements, growing from 11,808,189 deplanements in the first seven months of 2021 to 15,447,144 in the first seven months of 2022.
Total deplanements in the first seven months of 2022 were 95.4% of the 16,191,343 deplanements handled in the first seven months of 2019.

​​New Report: Investing in Digital Transformation to Create the Traveler Experience of the Future.
​Digital transformation isn’t a new concept. It needs no introduction, but requires far more definition than it usually gets. Built upon an in-depth survey of 951 senior-level travel and hospitality industry leaders in 12 markets across the world, the 2022 Digital Transformation Report — the third annual collaboration between Skift and Amazon Web Services (AWS) — explores how travel companies are taking stock of their technological systems, benchmarking best practices against their peers, and learning when to build in-house, buy off-the-shelf, and partner with specialized vendors. Through such efforts, travel companies can create digital strategies that will truly transform their entire organizations and the customer experience.
In this report

• Where the travel industry stands on its digital transformation journey
• How to connect the dots between business disruptions and digital investments
• When to build or buy new technology systems
• How to create customer value with AI-powered systems
• How digital transformation is reshaping the customer experience, operational efficiency, and talent attraction and retention.

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Las Vegas received 3,491,600 visitors in July 2022, 5.0% more than the 3,324,800 received in June 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors increase by 5.0% in July 2022, growing from 3,324,800 arrivals in June 2022 to 3,491,600 in July of 2022.
Las Vegas received 3,302,400 visitors in July 2021.
The 3,491,600 arrivals received in July 2022 were 94.7% of the 3,685,900 arrivals received in July 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 151,352 open hotel rooms in July 2022 (up 0.8% compared with July 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 83.4% (79.4% in July 2021), an ADR of $160.43 and a RevPar of $133.80.
Gaming revenue increased by 1.3% in July 2022, growing from $1.109 billion in June 2022 to $1.123 billion in July 2022. Gaming revenue in July 2022 was 30.4% higher than the $861.4 million in gaming revenue generated in July 2019.
Through the first seven months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 31.5% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 16,789,700 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 22,071,600 visitors in the same seven months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first seven months of 2022 was 88.9% of the 24,825,500 received in the same seven months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 77.5% in the first seven months of 2022 (up 17.1 percentage points compared with the first seven months of 2021), an ADR of $162.26 (up 34.8% compared with the same seven months of 2021) and a RevPar of $125.75, up 72.9%, also compared with the same seven months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 18.5% in the first seven months of 2022, from $6.227 billion in 2021 to $7.378 billion in the same seven months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first seven months of 2022 was 22.0% higher than the $6.049 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first seven months of 2019.

The United States Virgin Islands received 90,713 air arrivals in July 2022, 11.9% more than the 81,035 air visitors received in June.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 11.9% in July 2022, growing from 81,035 air arrivals in June 2022 to 90,713 air arrivals in July of this year.
However, the 91,713 air arrivals received in July 2022 was 6.6% fewer than the 97,089 air visitors received in July 2021.
The 90,713 air arrivals received in July 2022 were 47.3% more than the 61,579 received in July 2019.
The USVI also received 79,957 cruise visitors from 18 cruise ship calls up substantially from 4,374 cruise visitors received in July 2021 when the USVI re-opened its cruise ports to cruise ship calls. The 79,597 cruise visitors received in July 2022 were 88.4% of the 90,421 cruise visitors received in July 2019.
Through the first seven months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 4.9%, from 522,663 air arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 548,092 air arrivals in the first seven months of 2022.
The 548,092 arrivals received in the first seven months of 2022 were 31.6% higher than the 416,552 air arrivals received in the first seven months of 2019.
The USVI also received 516,903 cruise visitors in the first seven months of 2022, 60.7% of the 852,254 cruise visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
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Hawaii reports the state received 919,154 out-of-state tourists in July 2022, 9.2% more than the 841,809 received in June.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 9.2% in July 2022, growing from 841,809 air arrivals received in June 2022 to 919,154 arrivals in July 2022.
And, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in July 2022 was $1.938 billion, up 5.8% compared with June 2022 and 14.3% higher than in July 2019.
Hawaii received 879,554 out of state visitors in July 2021.
The 919,154 arrivals received in July 2022 were 7.6% fewer than the 995,210 arrivals received in July 2019.
Hawaii received 777,476 air arrivals from the mainland USA in July 2022, 84.6% of the overall total, 25,684 arrivals from Canada, 23,133 arrivals from Japan and 92,861 air arrivals from other markets.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 15.8% from $1,819.9 in July 2019 to $2,108.0 in July 2022.
Through the first seven months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 46.5% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 3,631,403 air arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 5,321,304 air arrivals in the same seven months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first seven months of 2022 were 87.4% of the 6,089,357 received in the first seven months of 2019.
For the first seven months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $11,163.1 million, 5.8% more than the $10,553.0 million spent in the first seven months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 21.3% from $1,728.30 per person per trip in the first seven months of 2019 to $2,095.90 per person per trip in the first seven months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 32.2% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 3,527,864 air arrivals in 2021 to 4,665,415 air arrivals in the same seven months of 2022, from Japan grew from 8,541 stopovers in 2021 to 58,057 in the first seven months of 2022 and grew from 7,634 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 216,818 in the same seven months of 2022.
Hawaii received 29,181 cruise visitors in the first seven months of 2022.

The Maldives reports it received 133,561 stopover visitor arrivals in July 2022, 20.4% more than the 110,889 received in June.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 133,561 stopover visitors in July 2022, up 20.4% from the 110,889 stopovers received in June 2022.
The Maldives received 101,818 stopover visitors in July 2021.
The 133,561 stopovers received in July 2022 were 1.1% more than the 132,144 stopovers received in July 2019.
In July 2022 Russia was the number one source market and generated 19,585 stopovers (14.7% share of total) while India was number two with 16,229 stopovers (12.2% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 13,519 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 56.5% from 745 in July 2021 to 1,166 establishments in July 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 19.3% from 48,752 in July 2021 to 58,183 in July 2022.
During July 2022 overall average room occupancy grew by 2.7 percentage points from 50.9% in July 2021 to 53.6% for July 2022.
Of the 1,166 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 40,053 beds. These resorts achieved a 65.6% average room occupancy during July 2022 up from 60.8% for July 2021.
The Maldives saw a 54.6% increase in total arrivals in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 612,367 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 946,772 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022 with India (136,833 visitors) and the United Kingdom (109,989 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these seven months.
The 946,772 visitors received in the first seven months of 2022 was 95.2% of the 994,733 visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 50.1% from an average of 698 in the first seven months of 2021 to an average of 1,048 establishments in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 18.9% from 46,992 in the first seven months of 2021 to 55,857 in the same seven months of this year.
Through the end of July 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 9.5 percentage points from 51.0% in 2021 to 60.5% for the first seven months of this year.
Of the 1,048 establishments in operation 163 were resorts which offered 39,272 beds. These resorts achieved a 72.5% average room occupancy through the first seven months of 2022 up from 59.0% for the first seven months of 2021. Through the first seven months of 2021 there was an average of 151 resorts in operation offering 35,555 beds. 
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Hawaii Tourism Authority and DBEDT release results of resident sentiment survey
By Marisa Yamane
Aug 25, 2022 Updated Aug 26, 2022
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Overcrowding, damage to the environment, high prices/higher cost of living, and traffic problems continue to be the most concerning issues when it comes to tourism in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) released the results of its Spring 2022 Resident Sentiment Survey during the Hawaii Tourism Authority's monthly board meeting on Thursday.
The survey was conducted between May 7 and July 30, and a total of 1,955 Hawaii residents participated -- 839 on Oahu, 458 on Hawaii Island, 403 in Maui County, and 255 on Kauai.
DBEDT's latest visitor statistics show that 842,927 people visited Hawaii in June, which was the second highest visitor count since January 2020.
According to the survey, when asked what problems they think tourism has created in Hawaii, overcrowding was the number one problem for Maui County residents at 75%, Oahu residents at 72%, and Kauai residents at 71%. The leading problem for Hawaii Island residents was high prices/higher cost of living.
Despite the concerning issues, 54% of respondents said that tourism has brought more benefits than problems, which is up from the 49% in the Fall of 2021, but on par with Spring of 2021 (53%) and 2020 (54%).
The survey also found that residents expressed strong support for using Hawaii's tax dollars to manage tourism and less so to encourage tourism.
For more on the survey's results, click here.

Hotel Room Rates Continue To Skyrocket In Los Cabos
August 27, 2022
The rates that tourists are paying for their stay at Cabo hotels continue to see record highs. The prices won’t see a downward tick any time soon as occupancy rates at these facilities have remained steady. So much so that prominent figures in the Cabo tourism industry have proclaimed that the city no longer sees an extended off season. 
According to FITURCA, which is the largest local organization that monitors tourism activity in Los Cabos, average nightly rates at Los Cabos hotels currently sit at US$417 dollars a night. On average a tourist arriving to a Los Cabos hotel in 2022 will spend US$147 dollars more per night than one who came in 2019
As previously stated, occupancy rates have also remained steady throughout the year posting historic numbers. This has led hotels on average to see a revenue of US$317 dollars per available room. That number is larger by US$128 dollars compared to 2019 revenue. In short Los Cabos hotels are generating more revenue than ever before.   
The Arrival of Both National & International Tourists Has Increased Drastically.           
As is the case with any industry the rise in demand has allowed hotels to hike up their prices and still see a steady 70% occupancy rate throughout the year. On average 21% more national tourists made their way to Los Cabos in the month of June. At the same time the international market saw arrivals increase by 25.2%. With the United States still being the foreign country that sent the most people to the Cabo region over the summer. 
If there’s one guilty party that can be largely held responsible for the high average nightly rate in Los Cabos it’s the high-end tourism crowd. We’ve explained multiple times before that although the average nightly rate at a Los Cabos hotel is US$417 dollars a night most of the hotels in the region offer nightly rates below that number. What hikes up the average are the nightly rates for the lavish suites and villas that can be rented out in Los Cabos. The arrival of tourists from this demographic increased drastically. 
Arrivals at the private airport in Cabo San Lucas, (not to be confused with the San Jose del Cabo airport that sees the arrival of mostly commercial flights) increased by 57%. In May alone 8,725 arrived at Cabo San Lucas via private aircraft. Although the high occupancy rate can be blamed for the increase in prices, the average nightly fee has more likely gone up drastically in large part due to the increase in the number of extremely high-end lodging accommodations available.  
Why Has Los Cabos Continued To See A Great Recovery In 2022?     
Travel across the world has more or less stabilized after the rough pandemic years. However, not all of the popular travel destinations across the globe have seen the same speedy recovery as Los Cabos has. 2022 has seen more people arrive to the resort town than ever before. Eclipsing pre-pandemic numbers. Rodrigo Esponda, head of FITURCA who provided the positive travel numbers, believes that there are 3 main points that have allowed Los Cabos to see continued success. In a recent interview Esponda mentioned, 
“The results that we’ve obtained derive from three main points that have allowed Los Cabos to remain on a steady path to recovery. Number one is the continued respect towards sanitary (COVID) guidelines put forth by authorities. These bring confidence to travelers coming to the region. Constant promotion of the vast tourist activities that can be performed here help. As well as innovation in regard to lodging and overall activities in the region have positioned us as a destination that offers direct solutions to needs that travelers are exhibiting.”
 
Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 123,413 departing passengers in July 2022, 16.7% more than the 105,788 departing passengers handled in June.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in July 2022 123,413 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 16.7% more than the 105,788 RGPs who departed in June 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
The airport handled 109,318 RGPs in July 2021.
The airport also handled 11,485 passengers in transit in July 2022 as well as 39 transferring passengers.
In July 2022 92,996 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 1,443 pax to Canada, 9,881 pax to Europe, 13,327 pax to Latin America and 5,766 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 145,735 outbound seats in July 2022, 0.5% fewer than the 146,443 seats provided in July 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in July experienced an average load factor of 94.8%, 90.0% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged a 96.9% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for July was 93.3%.
In the first seven months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 700,556 RGPs, up 52.9% compared with the 458,261 handled in the first seven months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 37.8%, from 390,359 RGPs in the first seven months of 2021 to 537,977 in the same seven months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 901 RGPs in 2021 to 13,480 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 83.9%, from 29,883 RGPS in the first seven months of 2021 to 54,953 RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 29.7% through the first seven months of 2022 from 731,834 available seats in the first seven months of 2021 to 949,174 seats in the same seven months of 2022. The 949,174 seats available in 2022 were 90.5% of the 1,048,707 seats available in the first seven months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 67.1% in the first seven months of 2021 to 81.7% in the same seven months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 63.1% in the first seven months of 2021 to 82.3% in the same seven months of 2022.
On July 4th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,580,355 available seats for CY 2022, 5.4% fewer than the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,081,141 seats from the USA, 1.5% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled from the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,202,930 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,237,272 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.0% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.
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Costa Rica received 222,982 stopover arrivals in July 2022, 10.3% more than the 202,204 stopovers received in June.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 222,982 stopovers in July 2022, 10.3% more than the 202,204 stopovers received in June 2022.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in June 2021. Costa Rica received 154,706 stopovers in July 2021.
The 222,982 stopovers received in July 2022 were 82.8% of the 269,376 stopovers received in July 2019.
Costa Rica received 133,047 stopovers from the USA in July 2022, 59.7% of the overall total, up from 46.8% share in July 2019, and 14,897 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 20.8% in July 2019 to 6.7% in July 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 115.5% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 671,229 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 1,446,746 stopovers in the first seven months of 2022. The 1,446,746 stopover visitors were 72.5% of the 1,995,339 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 86.1% in the first seven months of 2022, from 451,709 stopovers in 2021 to 840,644 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 227.0%, growing from 30,197 in the first seven months of 2021 to 98,732 in the same seven months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 67.3% in the first seven months of 2021 to 58.1% in the first seven months of 2022.

The Cayman Islands received 32,411 stopovers in July 2022, 23.7% more than the 26,191 stopovers received in June.
According to the Cayman Islands Tourism Authority, The Cayman Islands saw a 23.7% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in July 2022, growing from 26,191 stopovers received in June 2022 to 32,411 stopovers received in July 2022.
The Cayman Islands also received 77,560 cruise visitors in July. The Cayman Islands reopened its ports to cruise ships on March 21st 2022.
The Cayman Islands closed its borders to international visitor arrivals on March 22nd 2020, with extremely limited access to the destination during much of 2021 and fully re-opened its borders as of November 2021. The Cayman Islands consequently received 978 stopover arrivals in July 2021.
The 32,411 stopovers received in July 2022 were 62.8% of the 51,590 stopovers received in July 2019.
The Cayman Islands received 26,828 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, which comprised 82.8% of all stopover arrivals during the month. The Cayman Islands also received 1,214 visitors from Canada and 981 visitors from the United Kingdom during that month.
The Cayman Islands saw the number of visitors grow from 5,275 in the first seven months of 2021 to 146,612 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 2,758 in the first seven months of 2021 to 119,342 in the same seven months of 2022. The number of stopovers from Canada grew from 415 in the first seven months of 2021 to 9,712 in the same seven months of 2022  while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 487 in the first seven months of 2021 to 6,263 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The 146,612 stopovers received in 2022 were 44.1% of the 332,294 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
The Cayman Islands has received 302,865 cruise visitors so far in 2022, 27.2% of the 1,112,982 cruise visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
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Abu Dhabi’s hotels report 63.0% average room occupancy in July 2022.
According to the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, hotel room occupancy remained at 63.0% in July 2022 unchanged from the 63.0% achieved in June 2022.
ADR increased by 3.4% from US$73.02 in June to US$75.48 in July, while revpar grew by 2.9%, from US$46.32 in June 2022 to US$47.68 in July of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 66.0% in July 2021.
Abu Dhabi received a total of 364,000 hotel guests in July 2022 of which 121,000 came from the United Arab Emirates. 40,000 guests came from India and 22,000 from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
For the first seven months of 2022 Abu Dhabi’s hotel room occupancy increased by two percentage points from 67.0% in 2021 to 69.0% in the first seven months of 2022. ADR increased by 16.9% from US$75.75 in 2021 to US$88.56 in 2022 while revpar grew by 21.6%, from US$50.41 in the first seven months of 2021 to US$61.31 in the first seven months of this year.
By comparison with the first seven months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 71.0% in 2019 to 69.0% in 2022. ADR fell by 8.6% from US$96.90 in the first seven months of 2019 to US$88.56 in the same seven months of 2022, while RevPar fell by 12.8%, from US$70.30 in 2019 to US$61.31 in the same seven months of 2022.
Abu Dhabi received a total of 2,204,000 hotel guests in the first seven months of 2022, up 22.3% from the 1,802,000 received in the same seven months of 2021 but just 75.2% of the 2,931,000 guests received in the first seven months of 2019.
The number one source market of hotel guests in the first seven months of 2022 was the UAE with 650,000 guests, 29.5% of the overall total. The number two market was India with 259,000 guests followed by The Philippines with 99,000 guests.
The number of guests from the UAE in 2022 was 23.2% fewer than the 846,000 received in the first seven months of 2019 although the number of guests from India grew by 7.0% from the 242,000 received in 2019 to 259,000 in 2022.

Barbados received 33,798 stopovers in July 2022, 22.8% more than the 27,528 stopovers received in June.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 22.8% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in July 2022, growing from the 27,528 stopover arrivals in June 2022 to 33,798 stopover arrivals in July 2022.
Barbados received no cruise visitors in July 2022.
Barbados imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitor arrivals as of March 22nd  2020 which remained in place until November 24th 2021. Barbados consequently received 11,524 stopover arrivals in July 2021.
The 33,798 stopovers received in July 2022 were 56.1% of the 60,248 stopovers received in July 2019.
Barbados received 9,801 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in July 2022, 29.0% of all arrivals, and 14,185 stopovers from the USA 42.0% of all stopovers for July.
Through the first seven months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 30,395 in the first seven months of 2021 to 242,610 in the first seven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 7,321 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 101,623 in the same seven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 12,864 in the first seven months of 2021 to 72,327 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The 242,610 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 were 56.0% of the 433,263 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
Barbados received 175,889 cruise visitors in the first seven months of 2022 compared with 511,231 received in the same seven months of 2019.

Belize received 37,138 stopover visitors in July 2022, 9.0% more than the 34,078 visitors received in June.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 37,138 stopover visitors in July 2022, up 9.0% from the 34,078 stopover visitors received in June 2022.
Belize received 27,742 stopover visitors in July 2021. The country reopened to visitors arriving by air as of October 1st 2020 and to visitors arriving by land and sea on July 31st 2021.
The 37,138 stopover visitors received in July 2022 were 82.2% of the 45,196 stopover visitors received in July 2019.
Belize received 28,506 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, 3,804 from Europe, 775 from Canada and 426 from Mexico.
Belize received 9 cruise ship calls in July 2022 with 30,360 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first seven months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 104.7%, from 117,852 stopover visitors in the first seven months of 2021 to 241,267 in the first seven months of 2022.
The 241,267 visitors received in the first half of 2022 were 73.2% of the 329,762 received in the first seven months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 83.9% in the first seven months of 2022, from 102,886 in 2021 to 189,165 in the same seven months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 1,228 stopover visitors in the first seven months of 2021 to 9,413 visitors in the same seven months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 698 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 19,395 visitors in the same seven months of 2022.
Belize received 354,528 cruise visitors in the first seven months of 2022, 45.8% of the 774,580 cruise visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
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U.S. citizens’ outbound travel from the USA to international destinations increased by 13.6% in May 2022 compared to April.
The United States Government’s Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration’s National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) recently released the figures for U.S. citizens outbound travel from the USA to international destinations for May 2022.

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 13.6% in May 2022, growing from 6,033,156 trips in April 2022 to 6,853,148 trips in May 2022.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean decreased by 6.3%, falling from 840,434 trips in April 2022 to 787,895 trips in May 2022.
• Given that many countries had restrictions in place in May 2021, limiting international arrivals, 591,271 US citizens visited Caribbean countries in May of 2021.
• The 787,895 trips taken to the Caribbean in May 2022 were 6.8% fewer than the 845,477 trips taken to the Caribbean in May 2019. The Caribbean’s share of all international trips increased however from 9.9% in May 2019 to 11.5% in May 2022.
• Trips to Europe increased by 59.4% in May, growing from 1,043,981 trips in April 2022 to 1,663,664 trips in May 2022. Trips to Europe were 24.3% of trips taken by US citizens in May 2022. The 1,663,664 trips taken by US citizens to Europe in May 2022 were 81.2% of the 2,047,666 trips taken to Europe in May 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air decreased by 26.9%, falling from 1,078,538 trips in April 2022 to 787,895 trips in May 2022. The 787,895 trips were 93.8% of the 839,900 trips taken to Mexico by air by US citizens in May 2019.
• The percentage share of trips taken by air to Mexico increased from 9.9% in May 2019 to 11.5% in May 2022.

Please note the NTTO’s definition of the Caribbean does not include Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands as, for the purposes of the study, they are deemed to be US territories and the focus of the system (APIS) is non-stop air traffic (segmented here for U.S. citizens) to foreign countries.
 
In the first five months of 2022

• The overall number of trips taken by US citizens to international destinations increased by 91.7% in the first five months of 2022, growing from 14.11 million trips in the first five months of 2021 to 27.05 million trips in the same five months of 2022.
• The 27,046,308 total international trips taken in the first five months of 2022 were 72.5% of the 37,321,845 trips taken in the first five months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to the Caribbean increased by 88.8% in the first five months of 2022, growing from 1,906,787 trips in 2021, to 3,600,814 trips in the first five months of 2022. The share of trips taken to the Caribbean fell from 13.5% in 2021 to 13.3% in 2022.
• The 3,600,814 trips taken to the Caribbean in the first five months of 2022 were 84.8% of the 4,248,369 trips taken by US residents to the Caribbean in the first five months of 2019.
• Trips to Europe grew from 515,298 trips in the first five months of 2021 to 4,264,092 trips in the same five months of 2022. The 4,264,092 trips taken in 2022 were 66.8% of the 6,385,488 trips taken to Europe in the first five months of 2019.
• The number of trips taken to Mexico by air grew by 56.5%, from 3,178,433 trips in the first five months of 2021 to 4,974,926 in the same five months of 2022. The 4,974,926 trips were 14.8% more than the 4,334,707 trips taken by US citizens by air to Mexico in the first five months of 2019. This segment’s share of all trips fell from 22.5% in the first five months of 2021 to 18.4% in the same five months of 2022 but grew substantially from the 11.6% share seen in the first five months of 2019.

Hawaii’s hotels report a 5.7 percentage point increase in average room occupancy in July 2022 compared with June 2022, growing from 75.8% to 81.5%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 5.7 percentage points from 75.8% in June 2022 to 81.5% in July of this year. ADR increased by 5.6% from $391.73 in June to $413.57 in July, while revpar grew by 13.5%, from $296.85 in June 2022 to $337.01 in July of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 82.2% in July 2021.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 17.6%, growing from $494.2 million in June 2022 to $581.4 million in July 2022. Room demand increased by 11.4%, growing from 1,261,500 room nights in June 2022 to 1,405,990 room nights in July 2022 while room supply increased by 3.6%, growing from 1,664,700 available room nights in June 2022 to 1,725,300 available room nights in July.
For the first seven months of 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 21.0 percentage points from 53.2% in 2021 to 74.2% in the first seven months of 2022. ADR increased by 19.4% from $312.32 in 2021 to $372.82 in 2022 while revpar grew by 66.5%, from $166.14 in the first seven months of 2021 to $276.68 in the first seven months of this year.
By comparison with the first seven months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 81.2% in 2019 to 74.2% in 2022. ADR however improved by 31.4% from $283.66 in the first seven months of 2019 to $372.82 in the same seven months of 2022, while RevPar grew by 20.2%, from $230.22 in 2019 to $276.68 in the same seven months of 2022.
In the first seven months of 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 75.8% from $1.85 billion in 2021 to $3.26 billion in the first seven months of this year. Total rooms revenues for the first seven months of 2022 were 23.5% higher than for the same seven months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 47.2%, from 5,939,300 room nights in 2021 to 8,744,300 in the same seven months of 2022. Room supply grew by 5.5% to 11,782,700 available room nights also in the first seven months.
Room demand in 2022 was 6.1% lower than for the same seven months of 2019 while room supply was 2.7% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For July, the survey included 146 properties representing 45,770 rooms, or 82.2 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. The July survey included 74 properties on O‘ahu representing 27,985 rooms (91.3%); 40 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,707 rooms (72.6%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,889 rooms (69.5%); and 16 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,189 rooms (69.2%).

​Punta Cana received 418,295 tourists in July 2022, 15.3% more than the 362,732 tourists who visited in June.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 418,295 stopovers in July 2022, 15.3% more than the 362,732 stopovers received in June 2022 and 34.5% more than the 311.038  stopovers received in July 2019.
Punta Cana received 245,589 visitors in July 2021.
Punta Cana received 191,530 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, 45.8% of all tourist arrivals and 5.0% more than the 182,327 stopovers received in June 2022.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 19.5% in July 2022 from the 160,278 arrivals received from the USA in July 2021  Traffic from Canada increased from 4,493 arrivals in July 2021 to 39,278 arrivals in July 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in February 2022 to just 106 arrivals in July 2022.
Also, in July traffic from France grew from 9,749 stopovers in July 2021 to 14,421 in July this year while traffic from Germany grew from 4,878 arrivals in July 2021 to 9,992 in July 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 228 in July 2021 to 18,419 in July 2022. Colombia generated 18,078 stopovers in July 2022 while Argentina generated 15,472.
In July 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 56.9% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 43.6% in July 2021.
During the first seven months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 154.6% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 973,993 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 2,479,532 non-resident arrivals in the first seven months of 2022. The total for 2022 was 3.3% more than the 2,401,030 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 58.6% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 667,764 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 1,058,939 arrivals in the same seven months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 9,527 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 320,384 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 941 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 110,069 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 190.7% from Colombia, was up 368.4% from Germany, up 153.0% from Spain and up 498.3% from France.
In the first seven months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 57.9 % of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 39.6% in the same seven months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 735,064 tourists in July 2022, 14.0% more than the 644,863 tourists who visited in June.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 735,064 stopovers in July 2022, 14.0% more than the 644,863 stopovers received in June 2022 and 24.3% more than the 591,348 stopovers received in July 2019.
The Dominican Republic received 563,987 stopover visitors in July 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 305,047 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, 41.5% of all tourist arrivals and 4.9% more than the 290,660 stopovers received in June 2022. The Dominican Republic received 286,650 arrivals from the USA in July 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 5,165 arrivals in July 2021 to 47,858 arrivals in July 2022. Traffic from Russia fell from 42,705 arrivals in February 2022 to 210 arrivals in July 2022.
As well, traffic from France grew from 12,178 stopovers in July 2021 to 16,486 in July this year while traffic from Germany grew from 6,348 arrivals in July 2021 to 12,655 in July 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 582 in July 2021 to 19,075 in July 2022. Colombia generated 22,758 stopovers in July 2022 while Argentina generated 17,095.
In July 2022 19.6% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 26.9% of all arrivals in July 2021.
In the first seven months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw a 74.0% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 2,461,630 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 4,282,207 non-resident arrivals in the same seven months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 36.6% in the first seven months of 2022, growing from 1,204,769 arrivals in 2021 to 1,645,879 arrivals from the USA in the first seven months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 13,167 in the first seven months of 2021 to 384,759 in the same seven months of 2022.
The 4,282,207 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 were 2.8% more than the 4,166,646 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022 18.2% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 30.5% in the same seven months of 2021.

​​The Cayman Islands reports 1% more air seats in the 4th quarter of 2022 than in the same quarter of 2019.
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Cayman Islands Airlift Capacity Report Shows Q4 2022 Seat Recovery Exceeding Q4 2019 Levels by 1%
The Cayman Islands has achieved an important milestone in efforts to rebuild stayover tourism arrivals. An airlift capacity report created by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism Research Unit that tracks flights to the Cayman Islands through Q1 2023 and compares capacity to 2019, shows the destination gaining seats in late 2022.
The report shows an increase of 1,253 seats in the fourth quarter of this year, representing a 1% increase in capacity over Q4 2019, and is positive indication of tourism restoration moving towards 2023.
“The airlift capacity report is a welcome indication of recovery as we look ahead to the 2022 – 2023 season,” said Hon. Kenneth Bryan, Minister for Tourism and Transport. “The PACT Government’s easing of the travel regulations has unlocked pent up demand.  However, we cannot become complacent. Our focus is to drive growth from the markets where it will have the most positive impact. While we celebrate a net increase in available seats for Q4 2022, we must also continue to strive for opportunities to increase the number of flights, operating airlines and gateway cities.”
The net growth in seats is driven in part by:

• Increased American Airlines connections through Charlotte and Miami,
• Southwest’s strong feeder markets in Texas,
• United’s growth in Washington D.C. and Newark
• A new non-stop route from Baltimore-Washington.

However, many secondary markets with less frequent service, such as Philadelphia and Boston are pacing behind 2019 capacities, while historical stalwart Delta is still in a rebuilding phase with its connections through Atlanta.
The report also shows signs of longer-term growth in Q1 2023: with Dallas and Houston showing Year over Year growth of 5% and 40% respectively.
Cayman Airways is one of the destination’s most important advantages in mitigating any loss in capacity from U.S. carriers and can serve as a silver bullet for market development. The national flag carrier’s new non-stop route to Los Angeles accounts for 1,280 seats in Q4 2022 and could have a disproportionate positive impact in growing arrivals from southern California, through increased awareness and focused marketing and sales activity.
“Airlift is the oxygen of our islands’ tourism industry, and our global team has been working hard, engaging with the airlines to restore routes and seats,” said Mrs. Rosa Harris, Director of the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism. “A spirit of teamwork between the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, Cayman Airways, Cayman Border Control, the Cayman Islands Airport Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority, coupled with cooperation with the private sector is the key to our success. As we continue to collaborate in rebuilding our stayover arrivals and welcoming visitors back to our beautiful shores, further increasing the Cayman Islands’ airlift remains a top priority.”
In Q1 2023, seats from New York are reported as trailing Q1 2019 by 8%. The tri-state area has traditionally been leading source market when temperatures are coldest and demand and accommodations rates, and subsequently tax revenue and on island visitor spending, are highest.
“Year-over-year growth from the New York market is always a priority, added Mrs. Harris. “Instilling confidence amongst the airlines and sharing booking pace and demand indicators as contextual data in partnership with our accommodations sector will help the Cayman Islands extend our momentum.”
 
Cuba announces it received 152,480 international stopover visitors in July 2022, 29.7% more than the 117,564 received in June.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 29.7% in July 2022, growing from 117,564 international stopover arrivals in June 2022 to 152,480 arrivals in July 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 26,860 international stopovers in July 2021.
The 152,480 stopovers received in July 2022 were 51.7% of the 295,042 international visitors received in July 2019.
Cuba received 44,744 stopovers from Canada in July 2022, 29.4% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to just 387 in July.
In the first seven months of 2022 Cuba saw a 490.9% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 141,299 arrivals in 2021 to 834,891 stopovers this year. The 834,891 arrivals were 29.2% of the 2,856,761 international visitors received in the first seven months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 4,369 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021, to 258,896 in the same seven months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 31.0% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 90,247 in the first seven months of 2021 to 38,041 in the same seven months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 183,880 of all international visitors arriving in the first seven months of 2022, up from 14,337 in the same seven months of 2021.

Bonaire received 12,482 stopover visitors in July 2022.
As of July 1st 2022, the Government of Bonaire implemented a Visitor Entry Tax which has allowed the collection of more comprehensive data regarding visitor arrivals.
Bonaire received a total of 12,482 stopover visitors in July 2022 of which 6,801 came from the Netherlands (54.5%), 2,976 from North America (23.8%), and 2,705 from other countries (21.7%).
Bonaire also received two cruise ship calls in July with 8,001 cruise visitors.

​UK outbound travel to overtake pre-pandemic levels by 2024
Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 
UK outbound travel is set to surpass pre-pandemic demand in 2024.
The country’s outbound travel figures will reaching 86.9 million by 2024, overtaking the 84.7 million recorded in 2019, says data and analytics company GlobalData.
GlobalData says budget-friendly travel and Spain in particular will fuel the full recovery.
With rising prices causing budgets to be re-assessed, British travellers are increasingly looking for budget-friendly options, the ‘United Kingdom (UK) Source Tourism Insight, 2022 Update’report said
Megan Cross, Travel & Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “With restrictions now eased, and confidence returning, projections for 2022 and beyond are much brighter. This recovery will be a great boost, as the UK is an important source market on the global stage.”
GlobalData found that 48% of British respondents identified ‘affordability’ as a main factor.
“The periods of high inflation will typically see severely dampened demand for international travel. However, as seen from multiple stories about queues at European airports, the demand is still intact,” Cross added.
Spain remains the number one outbound destination.
Globaldata estimates 18.7 million Brits will visit Spain by 2024.
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New Big Book of Travel Data Reveals $867 Billion in Revenue from Airlines, Hotels, Car Rental & OTAs
Allianz Partners and IdeaWorksCompany release report filled with data from 122 airlines, 174 hotel brands, leading car rental companies and OTAs.
Richmond, Virginia & Shorewood, Wisconsin, 16 August 2022:
Allianz Partners, a global leader in travel protection and consumer specialty insurance, and IdeaWorksCompany, the foremost consultant on ancillary revenue, have released the first edition of The Allianz Partners Big Book of Travel Data by IdeaWorksCompany. This new publication, which expands on IdeaWorks’ former Big Book of Airline Data, provides a world of industry data for airlines, hotel groups, car rental companies, and online travel agencies, and is collated by alphabetical order, size, region, and more.
The compilation of data allows for interesting comparisons; here is the list of revenue leaders in each category in 2021:

• $78 billion for OTAs: Trip.com Group (gross bookings). China-based company operates the Ctrip, Skyscanner, Trip.com, and Qunar websites.
• $39.7 billion for hotels: Marriott International (estimated room revenue).
• $29.9 billion for airlines: American Airlines (company revenue).
• $23.9 billion for car rental: Enterprise Holdings (company revenue). The company operates the Alamo, Enterprise, and National brands.

“We’re pleased to partner with IdeaWorksCompany to present the 2022 Allianz Partners Big Book of Travel Data,” said Jeff Wright, CEO of Allianz Partners USA. “As travel supplier sales took off in 2021, ancillary revenue opportunities played a significant role in helping the industry get back on its feet. We’re proud to have played a role in that recovery by providing travel protection products that drive both significant ancillary revenue as well as increased customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.”
Airline results are presented by airline type (high performing LCCs, low cost carriers, traditional airlines, US major airlines), global alliance, and regions. The hotel section of the Big Book presents a unique approach to industry metrics with estimated room revenue for the individual brands of 10 hotel groups. This information is not directly disclosed by hotel groups, but IdeaWorksCompany has calculated it using average room revenue (RevPAR) and global room count statistics. Hampton by Hilton is the world’s largest individual brand at nearly $7.9 billion estimated room revenue for 2021
The Big Book is filled with statistics from all over the wide world of travel; here are a few examples from 2021:

• Asia & South Pacific had the lowest level of traffic growth at 9.8% compared to 2020; on top was the Middle East & Africa at 102.8%.
• Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliances generated estimated revenue of $256.4 billion, which represents more than 55% of global airline revenue.
• Ryanair Group is the largest low cost carrier with more than 97 million passengers, which represents a stunning 253% increase above 2020 results.
• Low cost carriers are estimated to generate 13.4% of global airline revenue, approximately $61.8 billion.
• Delta SkyMiles has the world’s largest membership among frequent flyer programs, with an estimated 136 million members.

The Big Book relies upon a number of sources and methods to determine the results for each company. Most often this consisted of financial documents at company websites, while for others the sources include press releases, and industry articles. The Big Book of Travel Data will be released on an annual basis.
For a copy of the 110-page “Big Book” click here

Antigua and Barbuda received 24,673 stopovers in July 2022, 5.4% more than in July 2021.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 5.4% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in July 2022, growing from 23,405 stopovers received in July 2021 to 24,673 stopovers this July.
The 24,673 stopovers received In July 2022 were 7.1% more than the 23,031 stopovers Antigua received in July 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 13,035 stopover visitors from the USA in July 2022 which  comprised 52.8% of all stopovers received in July. Antigua also received 5,650 stopover visitors from the U.K. in July, 22.9% of all stopovers received during that month.
Through the first seven months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 91.4% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 80,509 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 154,099 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 25.1%, from 61,081 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021 to 76,385 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 12,306 in the first seven months of 2021 to 49,369 stopovers in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 was 83.5% of the 184,451 stopovers received in the same seven months of 2019.
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Florida received a total of 33,717,000 tourist arrivals in the second quarter of 2022, 5.6% more than the 31,936,000 received in the second quarter of 2021.
Visit Florida’s Research Department recently announced that the state of Florida saw a 5.6% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the second quarter of 2022, with total arrivals growing from 31,936,000 in the second quarter of 2021 to 33,717,000 arrivals in the second quarter of 2022.
The 33,717,000 visitors was 4.5% higher than the 32,265,000 visitors received in the second quarter of 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 1.7%, growing from 28,974,000 arrivals in the second quarter of 2021 to 31,375,000 in the second quarter of 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 41,000 visitors in the second quarter of 2021 to 594,000 in the same quarter of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 68.9%, from 1,035,000 arrivals in the second quarter of 2021 to 1,748,000 in the same three months of 2022.
Florida saw a 20.2% increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the first half of 2022, with total arrivals growing from 57,704,000 in the first half of 2021 to 69,345,000 arrivals in the first half of 2022.
The 69,345,000 visitors was 2.3% higher than the 67,767,000 visitors received in the first half of 2019.
Domestic arrivals were up by 16.0%, growing from 60,754,000 arrivals in the first half of 2021 to 65,066,000 in the first half of 2022, while arrivals from Canada grew from 96,000 visitors in the first half of 2021 to 1,208,000 in the same half of 2022. Arrivals from overseas grew by 101.1%, from 1,527,000 arrivals in the first half of 2021 to 3,071,000 in the same six months of 2022.
All of the above numbers are preliminary and subject to change.
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Bermuda announces it received 19,600 air visitor arrivals in June 2022, 56.3% of the 34,833 air visitors received in June 2019.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority recently released its second quarter 2022 tourist arrival numbers and announced that Bermuda received 19,600 air visitors in June 2022, 56.3% of the 34,833 air arrivals received in June 2019.
Bermuda received 58,468 cruise visitors in June 2022 73.5% of the 79,515 cruise visitors received in June 2019. And Bermuda received 1,937 visitors arriving by yacht in June 2022, 230.5% more than the 586 visitors arriving by yacht in June 2019.
The 15,121 air visitors received from the USA in June 2022 was 77.1% of all air visitors handled that month but was 54.8% of the 27,615 air visitors received from the USA in June 2019.
During the first six months of 2022 Bermuda received 60,955 air visitors, 199.4% more than the 20,358 visitors who arrived by air in FH 2021 but just 47.6% of the 127,969 visitors who arrived by air in FH 2019. Bermuda received 43,958 air visitors from the USA in FH 2022, 46.1% of the 95,344 air visitors received from the USA in FH 2019.
The Ministry of Tourism reports that the airlines serving Bermuda achieved an average load factor of 62.5% in FH 2022, up 22 percentage points from the 40.5% average load factor achieved in FH 2021. The airlines had an average load factor of 74.1% in FH 2019.
The Ministry further reports that in FH 2022 air visitors spent an estimated US$81,646,328, up 189.6% compared with the US$28,192,854 spent in FH 2021. The FH 2022 expenditure was 62.0% of the US$131,754,593 spent by air visitors in FH 2019.
The Ministry noted that per person spending for air leisure visitors was up by 32.3% growing from US$1,534 per person in 2019 to US$2,030 per person in 2022. The average length of stay year to date was 11.4% longer than in 2019.
Bermuda’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 47.8% in FH 2022, up 17.7 percentage points from the 30.1% achieved in FH 2021 but 11.3 percentage points lower than the 59.1% achieved in FH 2019. 67.6% of all visitors to Bermuda stayed in hotel accommodation in FH 2022, down from the 73.3% who did so in FH 2019.
Bermuda received 3,942 visitors who arrived by yacht in FH 2022 237.8% more than the 1,167 who arrived by yacht in FH 2021, and 63.3% more than the 2,414 visitors who arrived by yacht in FH 2019.
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Curacao reports it received 48,246 stopover arrivals in July 2022, 28.5% more than the 37,541 received in June.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 28.5% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in July, growing from 37,541 stopovers received in June 2022 to 37,541 stopovers received in July 2022.
The 48,246 stopovers received in July 2022 were 29.5% more than the 37,249 stopovers received in July 2019.
Curaçao closed its borders to international visitors as of March 17th, 2020 and reopened its borders to visitors from Europe and the Caribbean as of July 1st 2020. Curaçao received 34,213 stopover visitors in July 2021.
Curacao received 23,489 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in July 2022 and 10,207 stopovers from the USA, 48.7% and 21.2% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after being closed for renovation.
Curacao received 10 cruise ship calls with 29,564 cruise visitors in July 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 6 calls with 7,630 passengers in July of 2021. The 29,564 cruise visitors were 60.3% of the 49,056 received in July 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 200.3% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 91,854 visitors in 2021 to 275,799 visitors in the same seven months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 173.8%, growing from 53,337 visitors during the first seven months of 2021, to 146,038 in the same seven months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 174.5% during the first seven months, growing from 17,318 in 2021 to 47,544 in the same seven months of 2022.
The 275,799 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 was 0.3% more than the 275,019 stopovers received in the same seven months of 2019. The 146,038 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first seven months of 2022 was 29.0% more than the 113,185 received from the Netherlands in the first seven months of 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022 Curacao received 166 cruise ship calls which brought 259,433 cruise passengers, 55.3% of the 468,888 cruise visitors brought in the same seven months of 2019.

Mauritius reports it received 94,084 stopover visitors in July 2022, 49.3% more than the 63,008 stopovers received in June 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 94,084 total stopover arrivals in July 2022, 49.3% more than the 63,008 stopovers received in June 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius reopened its borders to international travel as of October 1st 2021.
Mauritius received 18,674 visitors from France in July 2022, 19.8% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was the United Kingdom which generated 14,132 visitors, 15.0% of the total for the month. South Africa generated 7,904 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020, and consequently received just 1,242 stopovers in July 2021.
The 94,084 arrivals received in July 2022 were 81.5% of the 115,488 stopovers received in July 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 4,467 in the first seven months of 2021 to 470,640 in the first seven months of this year. The number one source market in the first seven months of 2022 was France with 112,120 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 69,849 stopovers, and South Africa 49,926 stopovers. These three markets together generated 49.2% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 765,530 stopovers through the first seven months of 2019 with the total received during the first seven months of 2022 being 61.5% of this total.

The Bahamas saw an 11.3% increase in the number of cruise visitors in June 2022.
According to the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas saw the volume of cruise visitor arrivals increase by 11.3% in June 2022, growing from 361,837 cruise visitors in May 2022 to 402,709 cruise visitors in June 2022. The Bahamas reopened to cruise ships in June 2021.
The Bahamas received 2,199,396 cruise passengers during the first six months of 2022. There were a limited number of cruise ship calls in the first six months of 2021 resulting in 5,944 cruise visitors. The 2022 total is 78.4% of the 2,805,259 cruise visitors received in the first six months of 2019. 
 
AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 82.2% average room occupancy in July 2022, up 1.5 percentage points from the 80.7% achieved in June.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in July 2022 was 82.2%, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 80.7% achieved in June 2022.
Aruba’s hotels achieved a 79.2% average room occupancy in July 2021.
Average occupancy in July 2022 was 6.4 percentage points lower than the 88.6% average room occupancy achieved in July 2019.
ADR was $297.16 in July 2022, 14.4% higher than in July 2021, and 20.1% higher than in July 2019.
RevPar was $244.24 in July 2022, 18.7% higher than in July 2021 and 11.4% higher than in July 2019.
Through the first seven months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 72.7% compared with 49.9% for the first seven months of 2021. Again, compared with the first seven months of 2021, ADR grew by 22.1% from $256.74 in 2021 to $313.45 in the first seven months of 2022. RevPar grew by 77.8% from $1281.8 in 2021 to $227.96 in the first seven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first seven months of 2019 average room occupancy was 13.6 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 7.2%, higher and revpar was 9.7% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,236 rooms, about 93% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 87% in July 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 80% for August, 71% for September, 75% for October and 75% for 2022 overall.
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Aruba received 109,006 stopover visitors in July 2022, 7.4% more than the 101,526 stopovers received in June.
According to Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 109,006 stopover arrivals in July 2022, 7.4% more than the 101,526 stopovers it received in June 2022 and 5.4% more than the 103,464 stopover visitors received in July 2019.
Compared with 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 8.9%, growing from 79,725 arrivals in July 2019 to 86,835 arrivals in July 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 79.7% of all arrivals in July 2022 up from 77.1% in July 2019.
Arrivals from Canada decreased by 4.9%, falling from 2,692 in July 2019 to 2,561 stopovers in July 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands increased by 24.1%, growing from 3,671 in July 2019 to 4,555 in July of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in July 2021 and during July 2022 received 12 cruise ship calls and a total of 34,110 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in July 2022 declined by 11.9% compared with July 2019, falling from 55,916 visitors in 2019 to 49,279 in July 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 54.0% in July 2019 to 45.2% in July 2022.
33,974 visitors used timeshare accommodation in July 2022, 2.0% more than the 28,325 visitors who used such accommodation in July 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 27.4% in July 2019 to 31.2% in July 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 34.0% when comparing July 2019 with July 2022, growing from 19,223 visitors in 2019 to 25,753 in July 2022, with the share growing from 18.6% in 2019 to 23.6% in 2022.
In July 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 33,488 non-resident visitors, 30.7% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 24,040 non-resident visitors, 22.1% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 15,491 visitors with Delta bringing in 10,921 visitors. These four carriers brought in 77.0% of all visitors in July of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 46.8% in July 2019 to 47.1% in July 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older was unchanged at 13.4%.
In the first seven months of 2022 Aruba saw a 49.4% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 426,565 visitors in the first seven months of 2021 to 637,331 visitors in the first seven months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 435.7% during the first seven months, from 376,290 in the first seven months of 2021 to 510,625 in the same seven months of 2022.
The 637,331 stopover visitors received in the first seven months of 2022 was 93.8% of the 679,113 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2019.
The 510,625 stopovers received from the USA in the first seven months of 2022, was 99.1% of the 515,068 stopovers received from the USA in the first seven months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.8% in the first seven months of 2019 to 80.1% in the same seven months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first seven months of 2022 declined by 17.9% compared with the same seven months of 2019, falling from 350,892 visitors in 2019 to 287,967 in the same seven months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.7% in the first seven months of 2019 to 45.2% in the same seven months of 2022.
In the first seven months of 2022 189,766 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 5.1% more than the 180,579 visitors who used such accommodation in the first seven months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.6% in 2019 to 29.8% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 8.1% when comparing the first seven months of 2019 with the same seven months of 2022, growing from 147,642 visitors in 2019 to 159,598 in 2022, with the share growing from 21.7% in 2019 to 25.0% in 2022.
In the first seven months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 190,451 non-resident visitors, 29.9% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 133,274 non-resident visitors, 20.9% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 90,552 visitors with Delta bringing in 71,566 visitors. These four carriers brought in 76.2% of all visitors in the first seven months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 44.3% in the first seven months of 2019 to 47.2% in the same seven months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 20.9% in 2019 to 18.9% in 2022.
Aruba received 174 cruise ship calls in the first seven months of 2022 with 297,582 cruise passengers compared with the 182 calls cruise ships made in the same seven months of 2019 with 482,064 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 37.6%, from 2,649 visitors  in 2019 to 1,710 visitors in 2022.
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Trinidad and Tobago received 24,612 stopover visitors in July 2022, 22.3% more than the 20,119 stopover visitors received in June.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 24,612 stopover visitors in July 2022, an increase of 22.3% compared with the 20,119 stopovers received in June 2022.
Trinidad received 23,728 stopover visitors in July 2022 with Tobago receiving 884.
Trinidad and Tobago closed its borders as of March 23rd 2020, and consequently received a total of 1,639 stopover visitors in July 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.
The 24,612 stopover visitors received in July 2022 were 66.7% of the 36,873 stopover visitors received in July 2019.
Trinidad and Tobago received 12,864 stopover arrivals from the USA in July 2022, 3,095 from Europe, 2,515 from Canada and 6,138 from the rest of the world.
In the first seven months of 2022 Trinidad and Tobago saw the number of stopovers increase from 4,413 in the first seven months of 2021 to 114,700 in the first seven months of 2022.
The 114,700 visitors received in 2022 were 48.9% of the 234,573 received in the first seven months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA grew from 1,868 in the first seven months of 2021 to 58,624 in the same seven months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada increased from 367 stopovers in the first seven months of 2021, to 12,938 in the same seven months of 2022 while stopovers from Europe grew from 946 in 2021 to 15,832 in the same seven months of 2022.
Trinidad received 110,243 stopovers in the first seven months of 2022, 96.1% of the overall total, with Tobago receiving 4,457 stopovers.
 
Saint Lucia received 30,694 stopovers in June 2022, 7.3% more than the 28,618 stopovers received in May.
According to the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Saint Lucia saw a 7.3% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in June 2022, growing from 28,618 stopovers in May 2022 to 30,694 stopovers in June 2022.
Saint Lucia received zero cruise visitors in June. Saint Lucia reopened its ports to cruise ships in June 2021. And Saint Lucia received 1,177 visitors in June 2022 who arrived by yacht.
Saint Lucia closed its borders to international visitor arrivals on March 23rd 2020 and re-opened its borders in June 2020. Saint Lucia consequently received 21,357 stopover arrivals in June 2021.
The 30,694 stopovers received in June 2022 were 90.2% of the 34,040 stopovers received in June 2019.
Saint Lucia received 22,558 stopover arrivals from the USA in June 2022, which comprised 73.5% of all stopover arrivals during the month. Saint Lucia also received 4,549 visitors from the United Kingdom in June 2022.
Through the first six months of 2022, Saint Lucia saw a 164.9% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 64,482 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 170,784 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 73.4%, from 59,598 in the first six months of 2021 to 103,314 in the same six months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 2,962 in the first six months of 2021 to 44,314 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
The 170,784 stopovers received in 2022 were 77.8% of the 219,608 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
Saint Lucia has received 165,266 cruise visitors so far in the first six months of 2022 compared with 464,191 received in the first six months of 2019 and received 8,125 visitors who arrived by yacht compared with 37,088 in the first six months of 2019.
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Dubai received 950,000 international visitors in June 2022, an 11.2% drop in visitors compared with May 2022.
According to the Government of Dubai’s Statistics Center, Dubai saw an 11.2% decline in the number of international visitors in June 2022, falling from 1,070,000 visitors in May 2022 to 950,000 in June 2022.
Dubai received 440,000 international visitors in June 2021.
The 950,000 visitors received in June 2022 was 20.8% fewer  than the 1,200,000 international visitors received in June 2019.
The number one source market in June was India with 151,000 visitors, followed by Oman with 99,000 visitors and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 79,000 visitors.
In the first six months of 2022 Dubai received 7,120,000 international visitors, 182.5% more than the 2,520,000 visitors received in the first six months of 2021, and 85.2% of the 8,360,000 visitors received in the first six months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first six months of 2022 was India which generated 858,000 visitors, 12.1% of the overall total, followed by Oman which generated 787,000 visitors, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which generated 543,000 visitors.
As of June 2022, Dubai had 582 hotels offering 115,111 hotel rooms and 191 apartment hotels offering 25,667 units. The hotel sector achieved an average room occupancy of 72.3% in the first six months of 2022 with an ADR of US$154.50 and a RevPar of US$113.62. The apartment sector achieved an average occupancy of 78.5%.
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Seychelles received 31,124 tourist arrivals in July 2022, 47.4% more than the 21,109 arrivals received in June.
According to The Seychelles Government’s National Bureau of Statistics, The Seychelles saw a 47.4% increase in visitor arrivals in July 2022, growing from 21,109 arrivals received in June 2022 to 31,124 arrivals in July 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors, and transit visitors. Of the 31,124 arrivals 31,096 were stopover visitors and 28 were transit visitors.
Seychelles re-opened to international visitors from most countries as of March 25th 2021 with visitors being required to produce evidence of a negative PCR test. Seychelles consequently received 20,162 tourist arrivals in July 2021.
The 31,124 visitor arrivals received in July 2022 were 6.2% more than the 29,319 arrivals received in July 2019.
The number one source market in July 2022 was Germany which generated 4,241 visitors (13.6% of the total for the month) followed by France, with 3,930 visitors (12.6%).
In the first seven months of 2022 Seychelles saw a 165.4% increase in total visitor arrivals, growing from 70,606 arrivals in the first seven months of 2021 to 187,411 arrivals in the first seven months of 2022. The 187,411 stopovers received in the first seven months of 2022 were 86.6% of the 216,427 received in the first seven months of 2019.
The number one source market in the first seven months of 2022 was France which generated 25,631 visitors, 13.7% of all visitor arrivals for those first seven months, followed by Germany, which generated 23,026 visitors, 12.3% of the overall total. Russia generated 17,139 visitors in the same seven months with the bulk of those arrivals coming in January and February.
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IATA Reports Strong Passenger Demand Continued in June
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced passenger data for June 2022 showing that the recovery in air travel remained strong.
Total traffic in June 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was up 76.2% compared to June 2021, primarily propelled by the ongoing strong recovery in international traffic. Globally, traffic is now at 70.8% of pre-crisis levels.
Domestic traffic for June 2022 was up 5.2% compared to the year-ago period. Strong improvements in most markets, combined with the easing of some Omicron-related lockdown restrictions in the Chinese domestic market, contributed to the result. Total June 2022 domestic traffic was at 81.4% of the June 2019 level.
International traffic rose 229.5% versus June 2021. The lifting of travel restrictions in most parts of Asia-Pacific is contributing to the recovery. June 2022 international RPKs reached 65.0% of June 2019 levels.
“Demand for air travel remains strong. After two years of lockdowns and border restrictions people are taking advantage of the freedom to travel wherever they can,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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Costa Rica received 202,204 stopover arrivals in June 2022, 14.7% more than the 176,237 stopovers received in May.
According to the Costa Rica Institute of Tourism (ICT), Costa Rica received 202,204 stopovers in June 2022, 14.7% more than the 176,237 stopovers received in May 2022.
Costa Rica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and reopened to international tourists arriving by air as of March 2021. It reopened its land borders in May 2021. Costa Rica consequently received 124,670 stopovers in June 2021.
The 202,204 stopovers received in June 2022 were 81.3% of the 248,696 stopovers received in June 2019.
Costa Rica received 136,693 stopovers from the USA in June 2022, 67.6% of the overall total, up from 53.5% share in June 2019, and 15,595 stopovers from Central America, whose share dropped from 21.7% in June 2019 to 8.2% in June 2022.
The volume of stopovers increased by 136.9% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 516,523 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 1,223,764 stopovers in the first six months of 2022. The 1,223,764 stopover visitors were 70.9% of the 1,725,963 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 107.9% in the first six months of 2022, from 340,356 stopovers in 2021 to 707,597 in 2022 while the number from Central America increased by 265.9%, growing from 22,915 in the first six months of 2021 to 83,835 in the same six months of 2022.
The share of visitors from the USA fell from 65.9% in the first six months of 2021 to 57.8% in the first six months of 2022.

Jamaica received 204,011 stopover visitors in May 2022, 8.4% fewer than the 222,815 stopovers received in April.
According to the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica received 204,011 stopover arrivals in May 2022, 8.4% fewer than the 222,815 stopovers received in April 2022 and 96.8% of the 210,664 stopovers received in May 2019.
Jamaica closed its borders to international arrivals as of March 21st 2020 and reopened again on June 15th 2020. Jamaica consequently had 122,522 arrivals in May 2021.
Stopover arrivals from the USA totaled 154,217 in May 2022, that is 3.8% more than the 148,519 stopovers received from the USA in May 2019. Stopover arrivals from the USA comprised 75.6% of all stopover arrivals received in May 2022.
Jamaica re-opened its ports to cruise ships in August 2021 and received 65,198 cruise passengers during May 2022.
Through the first five months of 2022 Jamaica saw a 155.7% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 366,499 stopover arrivals in the first five months of 2021 to 937,227 arrivals in the same five months of 2022.
The 937,227 stopovers received in the first five months of 2022 were 71.4% of the 1,151,795 stopovers received in the first five months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 99.7% in the first five months of 2022, growing from 350,659 arrivals in 2021 to 700,228 arrivals in the same five months of 2022.
The USA’s share of all stopover arrivals fell from 95.7% in the first five months of 2021 to 74.7% in the same five months of 2022.
Jamaica has received 211,909 cruise passengers through May 2022, 74.7% fewer than the 836,420 cruise visitors received in the same five months of 2019.
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Montego Bay Airport handled 430,300 total passenger movements in July 2022, 9.5% more than the 393,100 handled in June.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 9.5% in July 2022, growing from 393,100 total movements in June 2022 to 430,300 movements in July 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in July 2022 was 2.9% fewer than the 443,100 passengers handled in July 2019.
It should be noted that Jamaica closed its borders to international visitors as of March 21st, 2020 and re-opened to such visitors as of July 15th 2020. As a result, Montego Bay Airport handled 314,500 passenger movements in July 2021.
Through the first seven months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 97.4%, from 1,275,800 in 2021 to 2,518,000 in the first seven months of 2022. The 2022 total of 2,518,000 movements was 85.0% of the 2,963,700 passenger movements handled in the first seven months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 176,300 total passenger movements in July 2022, an increase of 35.4% compared with June.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 35.4% in July 2022, growing from 130,200 total movements in June 2022 to 176,300 total passenger movements in July 2022. Numbers for July 2019 are not available.
While Kingston Airport re-opened to international travelers as of July 15th, 2020, the total number of passenger movements in July 2021 was 96,100 passengers.
Through the first seven months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 103.4%, from 395,600 in 2021 to 804,800 in the first seven months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Cancun saw a 10.8% increase in international air passenger movements in July 2022 compared with June.
According to ASUR, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Cancun Airport saw a 10.8% increase in international passenger movements in July 2022, growing from 1,660,698 movements in June 2022 to 1,840,238 movements in July 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 24.9%, growing from 829,781 passenger movements in June 2022 to 1,036,208 movements in July 2022.
The 1,840,238 international passenger movements were 27.6% more than the 1,441,679 handled in July 2021 and were also 23.9% more than the 1,484,897 passengers handled in July 2019.
And while the 1,036,208 domestic passenger movements were 11.2% more than the 931,989 handled in July 2021 they were also 13.2% more than the 914,987 domestic passengers handled in July 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022, the volume of international air passenger movements increased by 71.4%, growing from 6,891,980 movements in 2021 to 11,814,379 movements in the first seven months of 2022, while the volume of domestic air passenger movements increased by 13.8%, from 4,989,716 movements in the first seven months of 2021 to 5,677,055 in the same seven months of 2022.
By comparison with the first seven months of 2019 the volume of international air passenger movements in 2022 was 12.7% more than the 2019 total, growing from 10,480,240 movements in 2019 to 11,814,379 movements in the first seven months of 2022, while the volume of 2022 domestic air passenger movements was 10.6% more than the 2019 total, growing from 5,134,037 movements in the first seven months of 2019 to 5,677,055 in the same seven months of 2022.
In the first seven months of 2022 international passenger movements accounted for 67.5% of all passenger movements, up from 58.0% in 2021, and up slightly from the 67.1% achieved in the first seven months of 2019.

San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU) saw a 5.8% increase in total air passenger movements in July 2022 compared with June.
According to ASUR, which manages many airports in Mexico, Colombia and which also manages the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, SJU saw a 5.8% increase in total passenger movements in July 2022, growing from 951,600 movements in June 2022 to 1,006,722 movements in July 2022.
However, the 1,006,722 total passenger movements were 10.0% fewer than the 1,118,931 handled in July 2021 but were 4.0% more than the 968,319 passengers handled in July 2019.
In the first seven months of 2022 the overall volume of air passenger movements handled at San Juan’s airport increased by 11.3%, from 5,555,160 in 2021 to 6,180,936 in the same seven months of 2022.
The total for the first seven months of 2022 was 8.7% more than the 5,686,127 passengers handled in the same seven months of 2019.
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Tourism sector in Quintana Roo expects this summer will be best in 5 years
Hotel occupancy expected to exceed 85%
Mexico News Daily | Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Hoteliers in the Riviera Maya aren’t just counting on a return to pre-pandemic levels this August. Managers of high-rise resorts, boutique hotels, all-inclusives and other properties from Cancún to Tulum are predicting it will be the best Mexican summer vacation season in five years.
The Riviera Maya Hotel Association (AHRM) is forecasting occupancies in excess of 85% at its 140 properties comprising more than 40,000 rooms. And the season is officially on. For most public schools in Mexico, the last day of classes was July 28 and the first day back is Aug. 29.
“We are seeing clear signs of recovery with the sustained rise in hotel occupancy and the influx of thousands of visitors eager to visit the Mexican Caribbean after the confinement and restrictions caused by the health emergency,” said Toni Chaves, the president of the AHRM.
Another strong sign was the data from July, which showed hotel occupancy at 80% for the full month and 84% for the July 29-31 weekend, compared to 66% for the full month of July in 2021, according to AHRM.
In coming weeks, according to AHRM estimates, nearly 60% of the visitors will be Mexican nationals.
Chaves stressed that it will be a successful season despite ongoing challenges, such as the washing up of sargassum on the beaches, a shortage of hotel personnel, and highway access and traffic problems in some areas.
As for the sargassum issue, a report in the newspaper Novedades said the beaches of Cancún registered 1,080 tonnes of the brown macroalgae in July, an increase of 260 tonnes over June.
However, the report added, it is being removed daily by approximately 180 public workers and it “is not an impediment for tourists to enjoy the beaches.” Big crowds have been hanging out at the Delfines and Coral beaches, and those are the ones where the most sargassum washes up, pointed out one coastal official.
Sargassum on the shores is most plentiful in July and August, due to the increase in temperature of the waters of the Caribbean Sea, the official added. In addition to workers on the shore collecting the seaweed, boats under the direction of the navy collect it at sea.
 
The United States Virgin Islands received 81,035 air arrivals in June 2022, 10.3% more than the 73,447 air visitors received in May.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 10.3% in June 2022, growing from 73,447 air arrivals in May 2022 to 81,035 air arrivals in June of this year.
However, the 81,035 air arrivals received in June 2022 was 11.8% fewer than the 91,911 air visitors received in June 2021.
The 81,035 air arrivals received in June 2022 were 30.7% more than the 61,982 received in June 2019.
Through the first six months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 7.6%, from 425,574 air arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 457,843 air arrivals in the first six months of 2022.
The 457,843 arrivals received in the first six months of 2022 were 29.0% higher than the 354,973 air arrivals received in the first six months of 2019.

International Tourism Consolidates Strong Recovery Amidst Growing Challenges
UNWTO: Tourism Barometer: 1st August 2022.
International tourism continues to show signs of a strong and steady recovery from the impact of the pandemic despite significant mounting economic and geopolitical challenges.
According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism saw a strong rebound in the first five months of 2022, with almost 250 million international arrivals recorded. This compares to 77 million arrivals from January to May 2021 and means that the sector has recovered almost half (46%) of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
“The recovery of tourism has gathered pace in many parts of the world, weathering the challenges standing in its way”, said UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili. At the same time, he also advises caution in view of the “economic headwinds and geopolitical challenges which could impact the sector in the remainder of 2022 and beyond”.
Europe and Americas lead recovery
Europe welcomed more than four times as many international arrivals as in the first five months of 2021 (+350%), boosted by strong intra-regional demand and the removal of all travel restrictions in a growing number of countries. The region saw particularly robust performance in April (+458%), reflecting a busy Easter period. In the Americas, arrivals more than doubled (+112%). However, the strong rebound is measured against weak results in 2021 and arrivals remain overall 36% and 40% below 2019 levels in both regions, respectively.
The recovery of tourism has gathered pace in many parts of the world, weathering the challenges standing in its way.
The strong growth in the Middle East (+157%) and Africa (+156%) remained 54% and 50% below 2019 levels respectively, and Asia and the Pacific almost doubled arrivals (+94%) compared with 2021 but remained 90% below 2019, as some borders remained closed to non-essential travel.
Looking at subregions, several have recovered between 70% and 80% of their 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The Caribbean for example through May 2022 is showing a recovery of stopover visitors of 81.4% of the total stopovers for the same five months of 2019 leading the world in its recovery rate.
Central America, followed by Southern Mediterranean, Western and Northern Europe have also shown good growth. It is noteworthy that some destinations surpassed YTD 2019 levels, including the US Virgin Islands, St. Maarten, the Republic of Moldova, Albania, Honduras and Puerto Rico.
Tourism spending also rising.
Rising tourism spending out of the major source markets is consistent with the observed recovery. International expenditure by tourists from France, Germany, Italy and the United States is now at 70% to 85% of pre-pandemic levels, while spending from India, Saudi Arabia and Qatar has already exceeded 2019 levels.
In terms of international tourism receipts earned in destinations, a growing number of countries - the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Seychelles, Romania, North Macedonia, Saint Lucia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Pakistan, Sudan, Türkiye, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Mexico, Croatia and Portugal – have fully recovered their pre-pandemic levels.
Defying mounting challenges
Strong demand during the Northern Hemisphere summer season is expected to consolidate these positive results, particularly as more destinations ease or lift travel restrictions. As of 22 July, 62 destinations (of which 39 in Europe) had no COVID-19 related restrictions in place and an increasing number of destinations in Asia have started to ease theirs.
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the overall reduction in international air capacity in 2022 will be limited to 20% to 25% of seats offered by airlines as compared to 2019. Such resilience is also reflected in hotel occupancy rates. Based on data from the industry benchmarking firm STR, global occupancy rates climbed to 66% in June 2022, from 43% in January of this year.
However, it should be noted that stronger than expected demand has created significant operational and workforce challenges, while the war in Ukraine, rising inflation and interest rates, as well as fears of an economic slowdown continue to pose a risk to recovery.
The International Monetary Fund points to a global economic slowdown from 6.1% in 2021 to 3.2% in 2022 and then to 2.9% in 2023. At the same time, UNWTO continues to work closely with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to monitor the pandemic as well as emerging public health emergencies and their potential impact on travel.
Regional Scenarios for 2022
UNWTO’s forward-looking scenarios published in May 2022 point to international arrivals reaching 55% to 70% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022. Results depend on evolving circumstances, mostly changing travel restrictions, ongoing inflation, including high energy prices, and overall economic conditions, the evolution of the war in Ukraine, as well as the health situation related to the pandemic. More recent challenges such as staff shortages, severe airport congestion and flight delays and cancellations could also impact international tourism numbers.
Scenarios by region show Europe and Americas recording the best tourism results in 2022, while Asia and the Pacific is expected to lag behind due to more restrictive travel policies. International tourist arrivals in Europe could climb to 65% or 80% of 2019 levels in 2022, depending on various conditions, while in the Americas they could reach 63% to 76% of those levels.
In Africa and the Middle East arrivals could reach about 50% to 70% of pre-pandemic levels, while in Asia and the Pacific they would remain at 30% of 2019 levels in the best-case scenario, due to stricter policies and restrictions.

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Punta Cana received 362,732 tourists in June 2022, 7.3% more than the 337,956 tourists who visited in May.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 362,732 stopovers in June 2022, 7.3% more than the 337,956 stopovers received in May 2022 and 9.4% more than the 331,503  stopovers received in June 2019.
The Dominican Republic closed its borders to international tourist arrivals as of March 19th 2020 and re-opened to tourists as of July 1st 2020. Consequently, Punta Cana received 192,416 visitors in June 2021.
Punta Cana received 182,327 stopover arrivals from the USA in June 2022, 50.3% of all tourist arrivals and 19.6% more than the 152,396 stopovers received in May 2022.
Punta Cana saw its traffic from the USA grow by 21.2% in June 2022 from the 150,391 arrivals received from the USA in June 2021  Traffic from Canada increased from 375 arrivals in June 2021 to 31,598 arrivals in June 2022. Traffic from Russia collapsed from 17,104 arrivals in February 2022 to just 124 arrivals in June 2022.
Also, in June traffic from France grew from 1,039 stopovers in June 2021 to 7,412 in June this year while traffic from Germany grew from 3,905 arrivals in June 2021 to 10,457 in June 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 340 in June 2021 to 16,540 in June 2022. Colombia generated 19,525 stopovers in June 2022 while Argentina generated 13,920
In June 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 56.3% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 41.6% in June 2021.
During the first six months of 2022 Punta Cana saw a 183.0% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 728,404 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 2,061,237 non-resident arrivals in the first six months of 2022. However, the total for 2022 was 98.6% of the 2,089,992 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
Arrivals from the USA increased by 70.9% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 507,486 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 867,410 arrivals in the same six months of 2022. Traffic from Canada grew from 5,034 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 281,106 arrivals in the first six months of 2021. Traffic also increased from the UK, growing from 713 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 91,650 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
Traffic increased by 228.2% from Colombia, was up 456.5% from Germany, up 202.7% from Spain and up 901.4% from France.
In the first six months of 2022, stopover arrivals to Punta Cana made up 58.1% of all non-resident arrivals to the Dominican Republic compared with 38.4% in the same six months of 2021.

The Dominican Republic received 644,863 tourists in June 2022, 14.9% more than the 561,323 tourists who visited in May.
According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, received 644,863 stopovers in June 2022, 14.9% more than the 561,323 stopovers received in May 2022 and 9.8% more than the 587,143 stopovers received in June 2019.
The Dominican Republic received 462,536 stopover visitors in June 2021.
The Dominican Republic received 290,660 stopover arrivals from the USA in June 2022, 45.1% of all tourist arrivals and 27.7% more than the 227,630 stopovers received in May 2022. The Dominican Republic received 268,140 arrivals from the USA in June 2021.
Traffic from Canada grew from 694 arrivals in June 2021 to 37,981 arrivals in June 2022. Traffic from Russia fell from 42,705 arrivals in February 2022 to 234 arrivals in June 2022.
As well, traffic from France grew from 1,650 stopovers in June 2021 to 8,452 in June this year while traffic from Germany grew from 5,283 arrivals in June 2021 to 11,618 in June 2022. Arrivals from the UK grew from 483 in June 2021 to 17,042 in June 2022. Colombia generated 24,184 stopovers in June 2022 while Argentina generated 15,985.
In June 2022 20.3% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 28.0% of all arrivals in June 2021.
In the first six months of 2022 the Dominican Republic saw an 86.9% increase in the volume of stopover arrivals, growing from 1,897,643 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 3,547,143 non-resident arrivals in the same six months of 2022.
Non-resident arrivals from the USA increased by 46.0% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 918,119 arrivals in 2021 to 1,340,832 arrivals from the USA in the first six months of 2022. Stopover arrivals from Canada grew from 8,002 in the first six months of 2021 to 336,901 in the same six months of 2022.
The 3,547,143 stopovers received in the first six months of 2022 were 99.2% of the 3,575,298 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
In the first six months of 2022 17.9% of all non-resident tourists arriving in the Dominican Republic were non-resident Dominicans returning home, down from 31.6% in the same six months of 2021.

Mexico received 1,818,342 international air arrivals in June 2022, up 6.0% compared with May.
According to the Government of Mexico’s SECTUR (Department of Tourism) Mexico received 1,818,342 international air arrivals in June 2022, up 6.0% compared with the 1,716,160 arrivals received in May 2022.
Mexico’s border with the USA was closed as of March 20, 2020 and Mexico received 1,465,359 international visitors in June 2021.
The 1,818,342 international air arrivals received in June 2022 were 6.5% more than the 1,706,927 international air visitors received in June 2019.
Mexico received 1,296,017 air visitors from the USA in June 2022, 71.3% of the total. Colombia was the second biggest market (82,780 visitors) with Canada third largest (71,039 visitors).
Cancun Airport received 813,688 international air visitor arrivals in June 2022, 44.7% of the overall total. Los Cabos received 194,672 international air arrivals with Puerto Vallarta receiving 130,280  international air visitors.
In the first six months of 2022 the volume of international air arrivals to Mexico increased by 83.0%, from 5,610,243 arrivals in 2021 to 10,266,004 arrivals in the same six months of 2022. The 10,266,004 arrivals received in the first six months of 2022 were 1.5% higher than the 10,116,740 international arrivals received in the first six months of 2019.
The volume of air arrivals from the USA increased by 50.5% in the first six months of 2022, from 4,424,529 air arrivals in 2021 to 6,659,657 air arrivals in the first six months of 2022 while the volume from Canada grew from 55,694 in 2021 to 859,580 in the first six months of 2022.
Cancun Airport saw an 83.8% increase in international air arrivals in the first six months of 2022, growing from 2,624,383 arrivals in 2021 to 4,823,418 arrivals in the first six months of 2022 while Los Cabos saw a 51.6% increase growing from 741,857 international air arrivals in 2021 to 1,124,660 air arrivals in the first six months of 2022. Puerto Vallarta saw a 109.3% increase, growing from 432,801 international arrivals in 2021 to 905,710 international arrivals in the same six months of 2022.
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Las Vegas received 3,324,800 visitors in June 2022, 3.5% fewer than the 3,446,900 received in May 2022.
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas saw the volume of visitors decrease by 3.5% in June 2022, falling from 3,446,900 arrivals in May 2022 to 3,324,800 in June of 2022.
Las Vegas received 2,971,000 visitors in June 2021.
The 3,324,800 arrivals received in June 2022 were 92.2% of the 3,607,400 arrivals received in June 2019.
Las Vegas had a weighted average of 151,523 open hotel rooms in June 2022 (up 2.5% compared with June 2021) and achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 82.7% (75.9% in June 2021), an ADR of $156.92 and a RevPar of $129.77.
Gaming revenue decreased by 1.6% in June 2022, falling from $1.127 billion in May 2022 to $1.109 billion in June 2022. Gaming revenue in June 2022 was 22.3% higher than the $906.68 million in gaming revenue generated in June 2019.
Through the first six months of 2022 Las Vegas saw a 37.8% increase in the volume of visitors, growing from 13,487,300 arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 18,580,000 visitors in the same six months of 2022. The total number of visitors for the first six months of 2022 was 87.9% of the 21,139,600 received in the same six months of 2019.
Las Vegas achieved an average city-wide room occupancy of 76.3% in the first six months of 2022 (up 19.4 percentage points compared with the first six months of 2021), an ADR of $162.60 (up 44.4% compared with the same six months of 2021) and a RevPar of $124.39 up 93.5%, also compared with the same six months of 2021.
Gaming revenue increased by 23.5% in the first six months of 2022, from $5.065 billion in 2021 to $6.254 billion in the same six months of 2022. Gaming revenue in the first six months of 2022 was 20.6% higher than the $5.188 billion in gaming revenue generated in the first six months of 2019.

Hawaii reports the state received 841,809 out-of-state tourists in June 2022, 8.7% more than the 774,144 received in May.
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 8.7% in June 2022, growing from 774,144 air arrivals received in May 2022 to 841,809 arrivals in June 2022.
And, according to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending for visitors arriving in June 2022 was $1.832 billion, up 17.1% compared with May 2022 and 12.3% higher than in June 2019.
June also saw 1,118 cruise passengers visit the state.
Hawaii received 791,053 out of state visitors in June 2021.
The 841,809 arrivals received in June 2022 were 11.0% fewer than the 946,373 arrivals received in June 2019.
Hawaii received 748,042 air arrivals from the mainland USA in June 2022, 88.9% of the overall total, 15,634 arrivals from Canada, 11,940 arrivals from Japan and 66,193 air arrivals from other markets.
Overall person per trip expenditures grew by 26.2% from $1,721.90 in June 2019 to $2,173.50 in June 2022.
Through the first six months of 2022 Hawaii saw a 60.0% increase in the volume of air arrivals, growing from 2,751,849 air arrivals in the first six months of 2021 to 4,402,151 air arrivals in the same six months of 2022.
Air arrivals in the first six months of 2022 were 86.4% of the 5,094,146 received in the first six months of 2019.
For the first six months of 2022, total visitor spending was estimated to be $9.225 billion, 4.2% more than the $8.858 billion spent in the first six months of 2019. Person per trip spending grew by 22.2% from $1,712.90 per person per trip in the first six months of 2019 to $2,093.40 per person per trip in the first six months of 2022.
Air arrivals from the USA increased by 45.4% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 2,637,818 air arrivals in 2021 to 3,887,939 air arrivals in the same six months of 2022, from Japan grew from 7,448 stopovers in 2021 to 34,925 in the first six months of 2022 and grew from 5,434 stopovers from Canada in 2021 to 191,133 in the same six months of 2022.
Hawaii received 29,181 cruise visitors in the first six months of 2022.
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Hawaii’s hotels report a 1.9 percentage point increase in average room occupancy in June 2022 compared with May 2022, growing from 73.9% to 75.8%
According to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 1.9 percentage points from 73.9% in May 2022 to 75.8% in June of this year. ADR increased by 15.2% from $340.20 in May to $391.73 in June, while revpar grew by 18.1%, from $251.36 in May 2022 to $296.85 in June of this year.
The hotel sector posted an average room occupancy of 76.9% in June 2021.
Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 14.0%, growing from $433.5 million in May 2022 to $494.2 million in June 2022. Room demand decreased by 1.0%, falling from 1,274,200 room nights in May 2022 to 1,261,500 room nights in June 2022 while room supply decreased by 3.5%, falling from 1,724,600 available room nights in May 2022 to 1,664,700 available room nights in June.
For the first six months of 2022 statewide hotel room occupancy increased by 25.0 percentage points from 48.0% in 2021 to 73.0% in the first six months of 2022. ADR increased by 23.5% from $295.45 in 2021 to $364.75 in 2022 while revpar grew by 87.6%, from $141.86 in the first six months of 2021 to $266.16 in the first six months of this year.
By comparison with the first six months of 2019, average room occupancy fell from 80.5% in 2019 to 73.0% in 2022. ADR however improved by 30.3% from $279.99 in the first six months of 2019 to $364.75 in the same six months of 2022, while RevPar grew by 18.2%, from $225.27 in 2019 to $266.16 in the same six months of 2022.
In the first six months of 2022, Hawai‘i hotel room revenues statewide increased by 99.1% from $1.34 billion in 2021 to $2.67 billion in the first six months of this year. Total rooms revenues for the first six months of 2022 were 21.3% higher than for the same six months of 2019.
Room demand increased by 92.8%, from 3,805,400 room nights in 2021 to 7,335,300 in the same six months of 2022. Room supply grew by 6.1% to 10,052,300 available room nights also in the first six months.
Room demand in 2022 was 6.9% lower than for the same six months of 2019 while room supply was 2.6% higher.
The Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report is produced using hotel survey data compiled by STR, Inc., the largest survey of its kind in Hawai‘i. The survey generally excludes properties with under 20 lodging units, such as small bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, single-family vacation rentals, cottages, individually rented vacation condominiums and sold timeshare units no longer available for hotel use. The data has been weighted both geographically and by class of property to compensate for any over and/or under representation of hotel survey participants by location and type.
For June, the survey included 153 properties representing 46,564 rooms, or 83.9 percent of all lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in the Hawaiian Islands, including those offering full service, limited service, and condominium hotels. Vacation rental and timeshare properties were not included in this survey. The June survey included 77 properties on O‘ahu representing 28,382 rooms (92.6%); 41 properties in the County of Maui, representing 9,828 rooms (74.5%); 16 properties on the island of Hawai‘i, representing 4,889 rooms (69.5%); and 19 properties on Kaua‘i, representing 3,465 rooms (75.0%).
 
Puerto Rico saw average hotel room occupancy drop to 63.1% in May 2022 falling by 3.4 percentage points from the 66.5% achieved in April.
According to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the hotels and resorts endorsed by the PRTC saw the number of non-resident hotel registrations decrease by 8.6% in May 2022, falling from 174,862 non-resident registrations in April 2022 to 159,784 registrations in May 2022. Registrations by local residents decreased by 1.6%, falling from 61,772 in April 2022 to 60,814 in May 2022.
The 159,784 non-resident hotel registrations achieved in May 2022 were 15.7% more than the 138,100 non-resident registrations achieved in May 2019.
The PRTC reports that the number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 0.6%, growing from 411,788 in April 2022 to 426,603 in May 2022. The number of available room nights in May 2022 was 9.0% higher than in May 2019.
The number of occupied room nights decreased by 3.9%, falling from 313,208 in April 2022 to 300,745 in May 2022. The number of occupied room nights achieved in May 2022 was 19.9% more than the total achieved in May 2019.
Average room occupancy fell by 3.4 percentage points from the 66.5% achieved in April 2022 to 63.1% in May 2022. Average room occupancy in May 2019 was 64.1%.
ADR decreased by 10.4% falling from $287.05 in April 2022 to $257.23 in May 2022 and was 63.4% higher than the $157.46 achieved in May 2019.
In the first five months of 2022 the number of non-resident hotel registrations increased by 19.9%, growing from 634,637 non-resident registrations in the first five months of 2021 to 761,083 registrations in the first five months of 2022. Registrations by local residents increased by 0.3% growing from 254,491 in 2021 to 255,249 in the same five months of 2022.
The number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 5.9% in the first five months of 2022, growing from 1,924,531 in 2021 to 2,038,625 in 2022. The number of occupied room nights increased by 22.3%, growing from 1,122,268 in 2021 to 1,372,063 in 2022.
The overall average room occupancy grew by 6.4 percentage points from 54.2% in the first five months of 2021 to 60.6% in the same five months of 2022. ADR grew by 22.2% from $232.72 in 2021 to $284.34 in the same five months of 2022. ADR is the first five months of 2022 was 63.2% higher than for the same five months of 2019.
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Barbados received 27,528 stopovers in June 2022, 4.5% fewer than the 28,829 stopovers received in May.
According to the Barbados Statistical Service, Barbados saw a 4.5% drop in stopover visitor arrivals in June 2022, falling from the 28,829 stopover arrivals in May 2022 to 27,528 stopover arrivals in June 2022.
Barbados received no cruise visitors in June 2022.
Barbados imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitor arrivals as of March 22nd  2020 which remained in place until November 24th 2021. Barbados consequently received 6,448 stopover arrivals in June 2021.
The 27,528 stopovers received in June 2022 were 54.9% of the 50,160 stopovers received in June 2019.
Barbados received 8,662 stopover arrivals from the United Kingdom in June 2022, 31.5% of all arrivals, and 12,117 stopovers from the USA 44.0% of all stopovers for June.
Through the first six months of 2022, Barbados saw stopover arrivals increase from 18,871 in the first six months of 2021 to 208,812 in the first six months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased from 7,664 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 58,142 in the same six months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 3,033 in the first six months of 2021 to 91,822 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
The 208,812 stopovers received in the first six months of 2022 were 56.0% of the 373,015 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
Barbados received 175,889 cruise visitors in the first six months of 2022 compared with 491,547 received in the same six months of 2019.

The Maldives reports it received 110,889 stopover visitor arrivals in June 2022, 11.7% fewer than the 125,522 received in May.
The Maldives Government’s Ministry of Tourism recently announced that The Maldives received 110,889 stopover visitors in June 2022, down 11.7% from the 125,522 stopovers received in May 2022.
The Maldives closed its borders to tourist arrivals on March 27th 2020 and re-opened to all tourists as of July 15th 2020. Consequently, the Maldives received 56,166 stopover visitors in June 2021.
The 110,889 stopovers received in June 2022 were 2.3% fewer than the 113,475 stopovers received in June 2019.
In June 2022 India was the number one source market and generated 22,101 stopovers (19.9% share of total) while Russia was number two with 15,327 stopovers (13.8% share). The United Kingdom was number three with 8,728 stopovers.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 57.9% from 738 in June 2021 to 1,165 establishments in June 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 19.1% from 48,396 in June 2021 to 57,654 in June 2022.
During June 2022 overall average room occupancy grew by 11.8 percentage points from 32.1% in June 2021 to 43.9% for June 2022.
Of the 1,165 establishments in operation 164 were resorts which offered 39,481 beds. These resorts achieved a 54.8% average room occupancy during June 2022 up from 38.2% for June 2021.
The Maldives saw a 59.3% increase in total arrivals in the first six months of 2022, growing from 510,549 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 813,211 stopovers in the same six months of 2022 with India (120,604 visitors) and the United Kingdom (96,470 visitors) being the two largest source markets in these six months.
The 813,211 visitors received in the first six months of 2022 was 94.3% of the 862,589 visitors received in the first six months of 2019.
The Maldives saw the overall number of operating accommodation establishments grow by 48.8% from an average of 691 in the first six months of 2021 to an average of 1,028 establishments in the same six months of 2022.
The number of beds in operation grew by 18.8% from 46,699 in the first six months of 2021 to 55,470 in the same six months of this year.
Through the end of June 2022 overall average room occupancy had grown by 10.3 percentage points from 51.0% in 2021 to 61.3% for the first six months of this year.
Of the 1,028 establishments in operation 163 were resorts which offered 39,141 beds. These resorts achieved a 73.2% average room occupancy through the first six months of 2022 up from 58.7% for the first six months of 2021. Through the first six months of 2021 there was an average of 150 resorts in operation offering 35,369 beds.
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Aruba Airport Authority reports it handled 105,788 departing passengers in June 2022, 4.2% more than the 101,570 departing passengers handled in May.
The Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) reports that in June 2022 105,788 Revenue Generating Passengers (RGPs) departed Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA Airport) to its various markets. This was 4.2% more than the 101,570 RGPs who departed in May 2022.
A revenue generating passenger is an outbound traveler leaving Aruba and includes tourists returning to their homes as well as Arubans departing for trips overseas.
While Aruba reopened to travel to and from Bonaire and Curacao as of June 15th, 2020, the country did not reopen to travel from Europe, Canada, and the Caribbean until July 1st, 2020, and from the USA until July 10th, 2020. Consequently, the airport had just 84,754 RGPs in June 2021.
The airport also handled 8,793 passengers in transit in June 2022 as well as 53 transferring passengers.
In June 2022 81,196 passengers (pax) travelled to the USA, 1,284 pax to Canada, 8,372 pax to Europe, 10,669 pax to Latin America and 1,284 pax to the Dutch Caribbean.
The airlines provided 134,286 outbound seats in June 2022, 6.0% fewer than the 142,857 seats provided in June 2019.
Airlines flying to the USA in June experienced an average load factor of 90.0%, 91.9% to Canada, while flights to Europe averaged an 84.1% load factor. The overall average load factor for all flights for June was 86.0%.
In the first six months of 2022 the airport handled a total of 577,143 RGPs, up 65.4% compared with the 348,943 handled in the first six months of 2021. Traffic to the USA increased by 49.0%, from 298,644 RGPs in the first six months of 2021 to 444,981 in the same six months of 2022. Traffic to Canada grew from 901 RGPs in 2021 to 12,037 RGPs, while traffic to Europe increased by 103.2%, from 22,186 RGPS in the first six months of 2021 to 45,072 RGPs this year.
Seat capacity increased by 34.2% through the first six months of 2022 from 598,740 available seats in the first six months of 2021 to 803,439 seats in the same six months of 2022. The 803,349 seats available in 2022 were 89.0% of the 902,264 seats available in the first six months of 2019.
The overall average load factor of outbound flights grew from 62.5% in the first six months of 2021 to 79.6% in the same six months of 2022. The average load factor of flights to the USA grew from 63.1% in the first six months of 2021 to 80.1% in the same six months of 2022.
On July 4th 2022, the airport issued a revised forecast for the number of available seats for CY 2022 and projects a total of 1,580,355 available seats for CY 2022, 5.4% fewer than the 1,701,062 seats provided in 2019. They forecast that the airport will handle 1,081,141 seats from the USA, 1.5% more than the 1,065,147 seats handled from the USA in 2019.
The AAA also forecast that the airport will handle a total of 1,202,930 RGPs in CY 2022 and 1,237,272 RGPs in CY 2023. The 2022 total is 95.0% of the 1,265,965 RGPs handled in CY 2019.
The AAA stated that these projections are preliminary and subject to change.

​United Airlines Again Scales Back Growth Plans
Chicago-based carrier is remaining cautious on capacity, citing global trends that present potential headwinds.
By Aaron Karp | Routes Online | 21 July 2022
United Airlines said it will operate capacity in 2023 “no more than” 8% above 2019 levels, a significant draw down from earlier expectations of capacity growth of as much as 20% next year versus 2019.
At the start of this year, the Star Alliance member had expected to operate 5% more capacity in 2022 versus 2021—similarly, the carrier’s capacity plans for 2023 were much more aggressive at the beginning of 2021. But those plans were quickly nixed as the omicron variant of COVID-19 hit the US, and United has remained cautious about growth throughout 2022.
Now the carrier estimates it will operate 13% less capacity for the full-year 2022 compared to 2019. As recently as March, United forecast full-year 2022 capacity to be down 7% to 9% compared to 2019–the lower expectations come after months of US airlines facing serious operational issues.
United’s second-quarter capacity was down 15% versus the 2019 June quarter. Third-quarter capacity is expected to be down 11% compared to the 2019 September quarter and down 10% in the fourth quarter versus the same period in 2019.
The latest United capacity forecast came as the carrier released its second-quarter results July 20, reporting net income of $329 million, reversing a $434 million net loss in the 2021 June quarter. United is not alone in revising capacity plans. Rival Delta Air Lines said earlier this month it was lowering its capacity forecast for 2022. 
United CEO Scott Kirby said in a statement that the operational challenges affecting the US industry were mostly avoided by the airline in the second quarter: “United performed well and, with the exception of Newark (EWR), had operating results largely in line with 2019.”
EWR, located in New Jersey just outside of New York City, is a major hub in United’s network. 
Kirby cited “three risks that could grow over the next 6-18 months” and potentially affect United’s performance and rate of capacity growth. 
“Industry-wide operational challenges that limit the system's capacity, record fuel prices and the increasing possibility of a global recession are each real challenges that we are already addressing,” he said. “These fundamental challenges have already led to higher costs, higher fuel prices, but also higher revenue” as demand soars and tight capacity leads to higher fares. 
Third-quarter revenue of $12.1 billion was up 6% over the 2019 June quarter.

Belize received 34,078 stopover visitors in June 2022, 3.7% more than the 32,877 visitors received in May.
According to the Belize Tourism Board, Belize received 34,078 stopover visitors in June 2022, up 3.7% from the 32,877 stopover visitors received in May 2022.
Belize closed its borders as of April 5th 2020 and received 26,362 stopover visitors in June 2021. The country reopened to visitors arriving by air as of October 1st 2020 and to visitors arriving by land and sea on June 31st 2021.
The 34,078 stopover visitors received in June 2022 were 79.4% of the 42,938 stopover visitors received in June 2019.
Belize received 28,045 stopover arrivals from the USA in June 2022, 2,053 from Europe, 621 from Canada and 370 from Mexico.
Belize received 12 cruise ship calls in June 2022 with 44,333 cruise visitors. Belize re-opened to cruise visitors as of July 2021.
In the first six months of 2022 Belize saw the number of stopovers increase by 121.6%, from 92,075 stopover visitors in the first six months of 2021 to 204,000 in the first six months of 2022. The 204,000 visitors received in the first half of 2022 were 71.7% of the 284,566 received in the first six months of 2019.
Stopovers from the USA increased by 105.1% in the first six months of 2022, from 78,336 in 2021 to 160,639 in the same six months of 2022. Stopovers from Canada grew from 944 stopover visitors in the first six months of 2021 to 8,637 visitors in the same six months of 2022, while stopovers from Europe grew from 1,962 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 15,580 visitors in the same six months of 2022.
Belize received 324,168 cruise visitors in the first six months of 2022, down 53.5% compared with the 697,767 cruise visitors received in the first six months of 2019.
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North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Declines as Travel Volume, Room Rates Rise, J.D. Power Finds
J.D. Power | July 13, 2022
Rise in Demand and Room Rates Puts Pressure on Guest Satisfaction as Hotels Manage Delicate Balance Between Recovery and Guest Experience
Hotel occupancy rates are on track to approach pre-pandemic levels this year as travelers get back on the road and in the air to make up for two-plus years of deferred vacation plans. However, according to the J.D. Power 2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index (NAGSI) Study, released today, the surge in demand and steadily climbing prices have not been met with a corresponding improvement in amenities or services. As a result, overall hotel guest satisfaction declines 8 points (on a 1,000-point scale) from 2021, driven primarily by dissatisfaction with cost and fees and guest rooms.
“The phenomenon we’re seeing this year tracks closely with the rise in average daily room rates since late 2021, putting hotel property owners squarely in recovery mode,” said Andrea Stokes, hospitality practice lead at J.D. Power. “During the fielding period of the study—June 2021 through May 2022—the average daily rate for branded hotels has risen 34.8%. Many hotel owners and operators are using this post-pandemic surge in travel to get back on a steady financial footing, yet they held back on investing in upgrades and improvements during the pandemic. Hotel operators must carefully balance a focus on recovery with the heightened guest expectations that come with higher room rates.”
Following are additional key findings of the 2022 study:
•  Pricing up across all segments but many travelers not perceiving good value for money: The single biggest factor driving this year’s 8-point decline in overall satisfaction is hotel cost and fees. Another factor driving the decline is satisfaction with guest rooms, which suggests that hotel guests are feeling like they are paying more, but not getting more in return.
•  Satisfaction with guest rooms decreases: While hotels still get relatively high satisfaction scores for guest room cleanliness, scores for décor and furnishings, in-room amenities and quality of bathrooms decline from a year ago.
•  More guests paying for internet access: The one hotel amenity that guests can’t live without is Wi-Fi. A large majority (81%) of guests accessed the internet in their hotel rooms. The percentage of guests who paid extra for that privilege has increased four percentage points from pre-pandemic 2019.
•  Fewer staff interactions: After emerging as the heroes of the pandemic by helping to keep hotels up and running through one of the most challenging periods in history, frontline hotel staff are spread thinner this year due to the industry labor shortage. However, while fewer guests are interacting with front desk staff and breakfast attendants this year compared with pre-pandemic 2019, they still give staff high ratings for courtesy.
The 2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index (NAGSI) Study, now in its 26th year, analyzes guest responses to more than 150 questions regarding branded hotel stay experiences and benchmarks the performance of 101 brands across eight market segments. This year’s study is based on responses from 34,407 hotel guests for stays between May 2021 and May 2022.
For more information about the North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index (NAGSI) Study, visit
https://www.jdpower.com/resource/jd-power-north-america-hotel-guest-satisfaction-index-study.

​Hotel occupancy in Dubai and Abu Dhabi above 70% in first five months as tourism rebounds.
The National News | July 18th 2022
Hotels in Dubai and Abu Dhabi reported strong occupancy rates for the first five months of this year as the tourism sector in the UAE continues to rebound from the coronavirus-related slowdown.
The occupancy rate at Dubai hotels reached 75 per cent in the first five months of this year, up from 58 per cent in the same period of last year, a report by consultancy JLL said.
The average daily rate (ADR) during the period also jumped to $213, which had a “notable impact” on revenue per available room (RevPar), a key measure of hotel performance, which nearly doubled to $160.
In the capital, the occupancy rate rose to 71 per cent during the January-May period, up by 10 percentage points annually, JLL said.
ADR climbed by 27 per cent year-on-year to $112, with RevPar posting a double-digit increase to $79 in the first five months of 2022.
“So far this year, the UAE’s hotel sector has benefited from higher visitor numbers from a range of source markets. Luxury resorts and waterfront destinations remain the preferred choice for guests and as such have outperformed other segments,” the report said.
Dubai welcomed about 6.17 million international visitors from January to May, three times more than in the same period last year, the emirate's Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) said last month.
The surge in visitor numbers followed government initiatives that helped the tourism sector bounce back quickly from the pandemic and the momentum generated by Expo 2020 Dubai, the DET said.
Looking ahead, hotels in Dubai expect to be close to full capacity in the final months of the year as tens of thousands of football fans plan to use it as a base for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Dubai saw the completion of about 500 keys in the hospitality sector in the second quarter of 2022, which led to the city’s total hotel stock reaching 144,000, JLL said.
An additional 10,000 keys are scheduled to be handed over in the second half of this year.
In Abu Dhabi, while no new stock was added in the second quarter, about 700 keys are expected to be delivered by the end of 2022.
“While we did see an uptick in positive sentiment towards the sector, hotel operators will need to be competitive in their offerings evolving from traditional models to get an edge, as the market matures further,” said Amr El Nady, head of hotels and hospitality, Middle East and Africa, and executive vice president of the global hotel desk at JLL.
Traditional operators are likely to evolve to offer a variety of food and beverage options to attract more visitors, the report said.
“This becomes pertinent, especially in light of managing the overall impact of inflation and the growing strength of the UAE dirham on the purchasing power of tourists. The key will lie in adopting a balanced approach to achieving revenue targets,” Mr El Nady said.

The Bahamas reports the islands received 122,094 stopovers in May 2022, 17.5% fewer than the 147,945 stopovers received in April 2022.
According to the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Islands of The Bahamas received 122,094 stopover visitors in May 2022, 17.5% fewer than the 147,945 stopovers received in April 2022,
The 122,094 stopovers received in May 2022 were 69.9% of the 174,704 stopovers received in May 2019.
The Bahamas closed its borders to foreign visitors as of March 24th 2020 and re-opened its borders as of July 1st 2020. Consequently, The Bahamas received 89,060 stopover visitors in May 2021.
Of the 122,094 stopover visitors who arrived in May, 110,724 (90.7%) were from the USA with 3,264 coming from Canada and 3,557 from Europe.
During May 2022 88,646 stopovers stayed in Nassau/Paradise Island, (72.6% of all stopovers), with 5,640 stopovers (4.6%) staying in Grand Bahama, and 27,808 stopovers (22.8%) staying in The Out Islands.
The Bahamas received 361,837 cruise visitors in May, 87.4% of the 413,944 cruise visitors received in May 2019.
During the first five months of 2022 The Bahamas saw a 115.1% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 261,159 stopover visitors in the first five months of 2021 to 561,651 stopovers in the same five months of 2022.
The 561,651 stopovers received in the first five months of 2022 were 63.6% of the 883,398 stopovers received in the same five months of 2019.
The number of visitors from the USA increased by 100.9% in the first five months of 2022, growing from 248,749 stopovers in 2021 to 499,742 stopovers in the same five months of 2022. The number from Canada grew from 1,387 in 2021 to 22,399 in the first five months of 2022, while the number from Europe grew from 4,031 in the first five months of 2021 to 21,364 in the same five months of 2022.
Traffic from the USA in the first five months of 2022 was 89.0% of all stopover visitors compared to 80.4% of total stopover visits in the same five months of 2019.
Nassau/Paradise Island saw a 148.9% increase in stopover arrivals in the first five months of 2022, growing from 163,052 stopovers in 2021 to 405,839 stopovers in the same five months of 2022, while Grand Bahama Island saw a 105.5% increase in stopover traffic, growing from 12,162 stopovers in 2021 to 24,991 in the same five months of 2022. Stopover traffic to the Out Islands increased by 52.2%, growing from 85,945 stopover visitors in 2021 to 130,821 in the same five months of 2022.
Traffic to Nassau/Paradise Island in the first five months of 2022 was 62.4% of the total for the same five months of 2019, while traffic to Grand Bahama was 45.2% of the total for the same five months of 2019, and traffic to the Out Islands was 73.6% of the total for the same five months of 2019.
The Bahamas received  1,796,687 cruise visitors in the first five months of 2022, 76.1% of the 2,359,616 received in the first five months of 2019.
Please note these numbers are preliminary and may be subject to change.

​Curacao reports it received 37,541 stopover arrivals in June 2022, 4.8% more than the 35,813 received in May.
According to the Curaçao Tourist Board, Curaçao saw a 4.8% increase in stopover visitor arrivals in June, growing from 35,813 stopovers received in May 2022 to 37,541 stopovers received in June 2022.
The 37,541 stopovers received in June 2022 were 10.7% more than the 33,924 stopovers received in June 2019.
Curaçao closed its borders to international visitors as of March 17th, 2020 and reopened its borders to visitors from Europe and the Caribbean as of July 1st 2020. Consequently, Curaçao received 21,223 stopover visitors in June 2021.
Curacao received 14,796 stopover visitors from the Netherlands in June 2022 and 9,584 stopovers from the USA, 39.4% and 25.5% of all stopovers, respectively. The 351 room Sandals Royal Curacao opened June 1st 2022 after being closed for renovation.
Curacao received 9 cruise ship calls with 29,808 cruise visitors in June 2022. The island re-opened to cruise traffic in June 2021 and received 3 calls with 1,586 passengers in that month. The 29,808 cruise visitors were 83.4% of the 35,756 received in June 2019.
In the first six months of 2022 Curaçao saw a 294.8% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 57,641 visitors in 2021 to 227,553 visitors in the same six months of this year.
The number of stopovers from the Netherlands increased by 294.3%, growing from 31,083 visitors during the first six months of 2021, to 122,549 in the same six months of 2022. The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 208.0% during the first six months, growing from 12,123 in 2021 to 37,338 in the same six months of 2022.
The 227,553 stopovers received in the first six months of 2022 was 95.7% of the 237,753 stopovers received in the same six months of 2019. The 122,549 stopovers received from the Netherlands in the first six months of 2022 was 26.7% more than the 96,689 received from the Netherlands in the first six months of 2019.
In the first six months of 2022 Curacao received 156 cruise ship calls which brought 229,869 cruise passengers, 54.8% of the 419,832 cruise visitors brought in the same six months of 2019.
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Aruba received 101,526 stopover visitors in June 2022, 11.1% more than the 91,403 stopovers received in May.
According to Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 101,526 stopover arrivals in June 2022, 11.1% more than the 91,403 stopovers it received in May 2022 and 2.6% more than the 98,970 stopover visitors received in June 2019.
Compared with 2019, stopover arrivals from the USA increased by 5.9%, growing from 77,493 arrivals in June 2019 to 82,070 arrivals in June 2022. Arrivals from the USA comprised 80.8% of all arrivals in June 2022 up from 78.3% in June 2019.
Arrivals from Canada decreased by 16.5%,falling from 2,243 in June 2019 to 1,873 stopovers in June 2022. Arrivals from the Netherlands increased by 8.5%, growing from 2,951 in June 2019 to 3,203 in June of this year.
Aruba re-opened its ports to visitors in June 2021 and during June 2022 received 9 cruise ship calls and a total of 35,693 cruise passengers.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in June 2022 declined by 7.5% compared with June 2019, falling from 51,876 visitors in 2019 to 48,009 in June 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 52.4% in June 2019 to 47.3% in June 2022.
29,823 visitors used timeshare accommodation in June 2022, 1.2% more than the 29,478 visitors who used such accommodation in June 2019, with the sector’s share falling from 29.8% in June 2019 to 29.4% in June 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – increased by 34.5% when comparing June 2019 with June 2022, growing from 17,616 visitors in 2019 to 23,694 in June 2022, with the share growing from 17.8% in 2019 to 23.3% in 2022.
In June 2022, the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 29,017 non-resident visitors, 28.6% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 24,548 non-resident visitors, 24.2% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 14,214 visitors with Delta bringing in 10,118 visitors. These four carriers brought in 76.7% of all visitors in June of this year.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 48.5% in June 2019 to 49.6% in June 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 16.1% in June 2019 to 15.8% in June 2022.
In the first six months of 2022 Aruba saw a 61.9% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 326,387 visitors in the first six months of 2021 to 528,325 visitors in the first six months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA grew by 46.4% during the first six months, from 289,501 in the first six months of 2021 to 423,790 in the same six months of 2022.
The 528,325 stopover visitors received in the first six months of 2022 was 91.8% of the 575,652 stopovers received in the first six months of 2019.
The 423,790 stopovers received from the USA in the first six months of 2022, was 97.3% of the 435,343 stopovers received from the USA in the first six months of 2019. The share of stopovers from the USA grew from 75.6% in the first six months of 2019 to 80.2% in the same six months of 2022.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in the first six months of 2022 declined by 19.0% compared with the same six months of 2019, falling from 294,976 visitors in 2019 to 238,688 in the same six months of 2022. The share of visitors staying in hotels fell from 51.2% in the first six months of 2019 to 45.2% in the same six months of 2022.
In the first six months of 2022 155,792 visitors used timeshare accommodation, 2.3% more than the 152,254 visitors who used such accommodation in the first six months of 2019, with the sector’s share growing from 26.4% in 2019 to 29.5% in 2022.
Visitors using other accommodation – private homes, condominiums, short term rental accommodation and apartments – grew by 4.2% when comparing the first six months of 2019 with the same six months of 2022, growing from 128,419 visitors in 2019 to 133,845 in 2022, with the share growing from 22.3% in 2019 to 25.3% in 2022.
In the first six months of 2022 the primary carrier was JetBlue which brought in 156,963 non-resident visitors, 29.7% of all stopover arrivals, while American Airlines brought in 109,234 non-resident visitors, 20.7% of all visitors. United Airlines brought in 75,081 visitors with Delta bringing in 60,645 visitors. These four carriers brought in 76.1% of all visitors in the first six months of 2022.
The percentage of visitors 20 years old through 49 years old grew from 43.9% in the first six months of 2019 to 47.2% in the same six months of 2022. The percentage 60 years old or older fell from 22.3% in 2019 to 20.0% in 2022.
Aruba received 162 cruise ship calls in the first six months of 2022 with 263,472 cruise passengers compared with the 167 calls cruise ships made in the same six months of 2019 with 435,112 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 37.6%, from 2,605 visitors  in 2019 to 1,626 visitors in 2022.
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The USVI saw a 3.6% increase in the number of cruise visitors in June 2022.
According to the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of cruise visitor arrivals increase by 3.6% in June 2022, growing from 58,482 cruise visitors from 18 calls in May 2022 to 60,603 cruise visitors from 15 calls in June 2022. The USVI reopened to cruise ships in July 2021.
The USVI received 436,946 cruise passengers from 211 calls during the first six months of 2022. While there were no cruise ship calls in the first six months of 2021 this total is 57.4% of the 761,833 cruise visitors received in the first six months of 2019.

The United States Virgin Islands received 73,447 air arrivals in May 2022, 7.8% fewer than the 79,665 air visitors received in April.
According to numbers published by the USVI Bureau of Economic Research, the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals decrease by 7.8% in May 2022, falling from 79,665 air arrivals in April 2022 to 73,447 air arrivals in May of this year.
The 73,447 air arrivals received in May 2022 were 30.7% more than the 56,220 received in May 2019.
The USVI closed its borders to air arrivals as of March 21st 2020 and re-opened as of July 1st 2020. The USVI received 82,388 air arrivals in May 2021 12.1% more than the 73,447 received in May 2022.
Through the first five months of 2022 the USVI saw the volume of air arrivals increase by 12.9%, from 333,663 air arrivals in the first five months of 2021 to 376,808 air arrivals in the first five months of 2022.
The 376,808 arrivals received in the first five months of 2022 were 28.6% higher than the 292,991 air arrivals received in the first five months of 2019.
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Cuba announces it received 117,564 international stopover visitors in June 2022,  0.5% more than the 117,000 received in May.
The Cuban Government’s Office of National Statistics and Information (ONEI) recently announced that total international tourist arrivals increased by 0.5% in June 2022, growing from 117,000 international stopover arrivals in May 2022 to 117,564 arrivals in June 2022. This number includes both stopover visitors and cruise visitors.
Cuba closed its borders to international tourist arrivals on March 20th 2020 re-opening in November 2021 and consequently received just 26,229 international stopovers in June 2021.
The 117,564 stopovers received in June 2022 were 42.8% of the 274,837 international visitors received in June 2019.
Cuba received 31,389 stopovers from Canada in June 2022, 26.7% of all stopovers received for the month. The number of stopovers from Russia fell from 16,437 in the month of February 2022 to just 321 in June.
In the first six months of 2022 Cuba saw a 496.3% increase in total international arrivals, growing from 114,439 arrivals in 2021 to 682,411 stopovers this year. The 682,411 arrivals were 26.6% of the 2,561,719 international visitors received in the first six months of 2019.
Total tourist arrivals from Canada grew from 2,296 stopovers in the first six months of 2021, to 214,122 in the same six months of 2022 and was the number one source market with a 31.4% share. Stopovers from Russia fell from 72,304 in the first six months of 2021 to 37,654 in the same six months of 2022. Cubans living abroad accounted for 151,008 of all international visitors arriving in the first six months of 2022, up from 12,201 in the same six months of 2021.
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Puerto Rico saw average hotel room occupancy drop slightly to 66.5% in April 2022 falling by 1.4 percentage points from the 67.9% achieved in March.
According to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the hotels and resorts endorsed by the PRTC saw the number of non-resident hotel registrations decrease by 1.6% in April 2022, falling from 177,690 non-resident registrations in March 2022 to 174,862 registrations in April 2022. Registrations by local residents increased by 26.3%, growing from 48,925 in March 2022 to 61,772 in April 2022.
The 174,862 non-resident hotel registrations achieved in April 2022 were 27.0% more than the 137,734 non-resident registrations achieved in April 2019.
The PRTC reports that the number of hotel/resort available room nights decreased by 0.8%, falling from 415,092 in March 2022 to 411,788 in April 2022. The number of available room nights in April 2022 was 13.1% higher than in April 2019.
The number of occupied room nights decreased by 1.1%, falling from 316,364 in March 2022 to 313,028 in April 2022. The number of occupied room nights achieved in April 2022 was 23.3% more than the total achieved in April 2019.
Average room occupancy fell by 1.4 percentage points from the 67.9% achieved in March 2022 to 66.5% in April 2022. Average room occupancy in April 2019 was 77.5%.
ADR decreased by 5.7% falling from $304.50 in March 2022 to $287.05 in April 2022 and was 61.2% higher than the $178.06 achieved in April 2019.
In the first four months of 2022 the number of non-resident hotel registrations increased by 27.7%, growing from 470,794 non-resident registrations in the first four months of 2021 to 601,299 registrations in the first four months of 2022. Registrations by local residents increased by 1.3% growing from 191,875 in 2021 to 194,435 in the same four months of 2022.
The number of hotel/resort available room nights increased by 6.9% in the first four months of 2022, growing from 1,508,328 in 2021 to 1,612,022 in 2022. The number of occupied room nights increased by 28.5%, growing from 833,725 in 2021 to 1,071,318 in 2022.
The overall average room occupancy grew by 8.6 percentage points from 51.4% in the first four months of 2021 to 60.0% in the same four months of 2022. ADR grew by 27.8% from $228.51 in 2021 to $291.95 in the same four months of 2022.
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WTTC launches new report on best practices for short-term rentals.
London, UK: The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched a new ground-breaking report that outlines recommendations and best practices for jurisdictions to manage short-term rentals – a fast growing and important segment of the Travel & Tourism sector.
The report, ’Best practices for short-term rentals’, developed by WTTC with the support of Airbnb, leading global platform for short-term rentals, draws from the experiences of cities around the world to offer easy-to-implement best practices for this type of accommodation, which has become a popular choice amongst travellers.
According to the global tourism body, the Travel & Tourism sector’s ability to welcome travellers has increased due in part to the rising popularity of short-term rentals.
The paper suggests short-term rentals have increased the number of accommodations available and helps the spread of visitors in a destination, expanding local community participation in tourism and offers a different and sometimes unique option to travellers.
To help address the increased popularity of these accommodations, the report offers case studies from destinations such as Cape Town, Sydney, and Seattle, amongst others. It includes simple policy recommendations such as data sharing, registration, smart taxation, and long-term community investment approaches to benefit all Travel & Tourism stakeholders and can inform regulation.
Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO, said: “As we begin to recover from the ravages of the pandemic, we must focus on building back better in each of our industries.
“The best practices offered in this report will provide governments with key policy recommendations that will both promote tourism in their destinations while supporting those local communities.
“We know travellers are ready to explore the world once again and their return will also help power the world’s much-needed economic recovery.”
Guests are often drawn to short-term rentals for their flexibility and amenities they offer, such as kitchens, office spaces and gardens, and the ability to stay in locations outside of traditional tourist zones.
According to a survey of guests who stayed in Airbnb listings in 2021, 20% indicated that if their choice of property were not an option, they would have changed their length of stay to ensure they were able to book their preferred property.
Theo Yedinsky, Airbnb Global Policy Director, said: “Short-term rentals allows everyday people to take part in the tourism economy, and the income earned through hosting is helping many people navigate the impacts of inflation.
“In fact, approximately 35% of Airbnb hosts globally say they host to help cover the rising cost of living. Additionally, short-term rentals help spread visitor spending through communities.
“As travel returns, governments and tourism officials can partner with short-term rental platforms like Airbnb to develop fair, reasonable rules that strengthen destinations, and preserve these economic benefits for communities and local residents.”
Carlos Mercado, Executive Director Puerto Rico Tourism Company, which commissioned the report said, “Throughout the pandemic, short term rentals provided a much-needed boost not only to our Travel & Tourism sector, but to our economy.
“The revenue short term rentals generate is used to fund our marketing efforts which is critical to driving international visitors back to Puerto Rico.”
According to the report, governments can consider adopting data sharing, registration, smart taxation, and long-term community investment plans to help ensure short-term rentals continue to benefit and support the destination’s community.
The report analyzed a number of popular destinations which have benefitted from implementing balanced rules to address short-term rentals.
Furthermore, partnering with short term rentals platforms on digital registration and data-sharing agreements, supports compliance by short-term rental operators, while providing governments with insights to make decisions on how to manage the industry.
Sydney, Australia has taken steps to regulate short-term rentals, including a digital registration system to achieve consistency across all stakeholders.
Data sharing allows governments to keep track and manage short-term rental activities and helps inform data-driven policy decisions. To support this, Airbnb built its City Portal as a one-stop shop for relevant data governments might require.
Cape Town, South Africa benefitted from this data to form decisions on tourism and housing policy during an affordable housing crisis in 2017.
Governments can also benefit from the economic activity and tax short-term rentals generate for their destinations. In Puerto Rico, the increase in tax revenue has facilitated the funding of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company’s activities.
Lastly, residents can benefit from the extra income earned through hosting. French authorities collaborated with Airbnb to ensure the regulatory framework for short-term rentals was simple and proportionate for casual hosts.
To read the report in full, please click here.
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Mauritius reports it received 63,008 stopover visitors in June 2022, 10.6% fewer than the 70,462 stopovers received in May 2022.
The Mauritius Government’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development recently reported that the country received 63,008 total stopover arrivals in June 2022, 10.6% fewer than the 70,462 stopovers received in May 2022. This number includes both air and sea stopover visitors.
Mauritius reopened its borders to international travel as of October 1st 2021.
Mauritius received 9,508 visitors from France in June 2022, 15.1% of the overall total for the month, and the number one producing market. The number two source market was South Africa which generated 8,421 visitors, 13.4% of the total for the month. The United Kingdom generated 8,316 visitors.
Mauritius closed its borders to all international arrivals as of March 19th, 2020, and consequently received just 280 stopovers in June 2021.
The 63,008 arrivals received in June 2022 were 68.2% of the 92,398 stopovers received in June 2019.
Mauritius saw its stopover arrivals grow from 3,225 in the first six months of 2021 to 376,556 in the first six months of this year. The number one source market in the first six months of 2022 was France with 93,446 stopover visitors followed by the United Kingdom with 55,717 stopovers, and South Africa 42,022 stopovers. These three markets together generated 50.8% of all stopovers in 2022.
Mauritius received 650,082 stopovers through the first six months of 2019 with the total received during the first six months of 2022 being 57.9% of this total.
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Los Cabos handled 397,200 international passenger movements in June 2022, 6.5% more than the 372,900 handled in May.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports, Los Cabos Airport saw a 6.5% increase in international passenger traffic in June 2022, that is enplanements and deplanements, growing from 372,900 international passenger movements in May 2022 to 397,200 international passenger movements in June 2022.
Mexico re-opened to international tourist arrivals as of June 8th, 2020, and Los Cabos handled 382,800 international passenger movements in June 2021.
The 397,200 international passenger movements seen in June 2022 were 25.2% more than the 317,300 international movements handled in June 2019.
Domestic traffic declined by 4.0%, falling from 213,000 passenger movements in May 2022 to 204,500 passenger movements in June 2022. Los Cabos handled 174,700 domestic passenger movements in June 2021.
The 204,500 domestic passenger movements seen in June 2022 were 21.7% more than the 168,000 domestic passenger movements handled in June 2019.
Through the first six months of 2022 Los Cabos Airport saw international passenger movements increase by 52.2%, from 1,517,800 in 2021 to 2,309,400 in the first six months of 2022. Domestic passenger movements increased by 29.0% in the first six months of 2022, growing from 887,400 passengers in 2021 to 1,144,400 passengers in the first six months of 2022.
By comparison with the first six months of 2019 international passenger movements were up by 14.4%, while domestic movements increased by 29.2%.

Montego Bay Airport handled 393,100 total passenger movements in June 2022, 7.5% more than the 365,600 handled in May.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Montego Bay Airport increase by 7.5% in June 2022, growing from 365,600 total movements in May 2022 to 393,100 movements in June 2022.
The total number of passenger movements in June 2022 was 0.3% more than the 392,000 passengers handled in June 2019.
It should be noted that Jamaica closed its borders to international visitors as of March 21st, 2020 and re-opened to such visitors as of June 15th 2020. As a result, Montego Bay Airport handled 284,200 passenger movements in June 2021.
Through the first six months of 2022 Montego Bay Airport saw total passenger movements increase by 117.3%, from 961,400 in 2021 to 2,089,000 in the first six months of 2022. The 2022 total of 2,089,000 movements was 82.9% of the 2,520,700 passenger movements handled in the first six months of 2019.
Thus far in 2022 international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Kingston, Jamaica Airport handled 130,200 total passenger movements in June 2022, an increase of 12.9% compared with May.
According to Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages many of Mexico’s airports and which also manages the airports in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, saw the total number of passenger movements, that is both enplanements and deplanements, at Kingston Jamaica’s Airport increase by 12.9% in June 2022, growing from 115,300 total movements in May 2022 to 130,200 total passenger movements in June 2022. Numbers for June 2019 are not available.
While Kingston Airport re-opened to international travelers as of June 15th, 2020, the total number of passenger movements in June 2021 was 79,600 passengers.
Through the first six months of 2022 Kingston’s Airport saw total passenger movements grow by 110.5%, from 299,500 in 2021 to 630,500 in the first six months of 2022.
Thus far, in 2022, international passenger movements made up 100.0% of all passenger movements.

Antigua and Barbuda received 18,841 stopovers in June 2022, 5.7% fewer than the 19,973  received in May.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Investment, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 5.7% decline in stopover visitor arrivals in June 2022, falling from 19,973 stopovers received in May 2022 to 18,841 stopovers this June.
Antigua and Barbuda re-opened its borders to international travel as of June 4th, 2020 and received 14,562 visitors in June 2021.
The 18,841 stopovers received In June 2022 were 89.0% of the 21,174 stopovers Antigua received in June 2019.
Antigua and Barbuda received 11,063 stopover visitors from the USA in June 2022 which  comprised 58.7% of all stopovers received in June. Antigua also received 4,174 stopover visitors from the U.K. in June, 22.2% of all stopovers received during that month.
Through the first six months of 2022, Antigua and Barbuda saw a 126.6% increase in the number of stopover visitors, growing from 57,104 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 129,426 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
The number of stopovers from the USA increased by 37.9%, from 45,731 stopovers in the first six months of 2021 to 63,080 stopovers in the same six months of 2022 while the number of stopover visitors from the U.K. increased from 5,785 in the first six months of 2021 to 43,719 stopovers in the same six months of 2022.
The number of stopovers received in the first six months of 2022 was 80.2% of the 161,420 stopovers received in the same six months of 2019.
While Antigua and Barbuda received no cruise visitors in June 2022 the destination received 189,587 cruise visitors through the first six months of 2022, 58.9% fewer than the 461,573 cruise visitors received in the first six months of 2019.

AHATA reports Aruba’s hotels achieved an 80.7% average room occupancy in June 2022, up 2.3 percentage points from the 78.4% achieved in May.
The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) reports that average hotel room occupancy in Aruba’s hotels in June 2022 was 80.7%, 2.3 percentage points higher than the 78.4% achieved in May 2022.
Aruba closed its orders to international travel as of March 17, 2020, and while the borders re-opened as of July 2020, Aruba’s hotels achieved a 69.3% average room occupancy in June 2021.
Average occupancy in June 2022 was 2.3 percentage points lower than the 83.0% average room occupancy achieved in June 2019.
ADR was $277.52 in June 2022, 12.9% higher than in June 2021, and 22.1% higher than in June 2019.
RevPar was $223.97 in June 2022, 31.6% higher than in June 2021 and 18.7% higher than in June 2019.
Through the first six months of 2022 AHATA reports that Aruba’s hotels achieved an average room occupancy of 71.1% compared with 44.7% for the first six months of 2021. Again, compared with the first six months of 2021, ADR grew by 23.8% from $255.83 in 2021 to $316.68 in the first six months of 2022. RevPar grew by 96.8% from $114.39 in 2021 to $225.16 in the first six months of 2022.
By comparison with the first six months of 2019 average room occupancy was 14.8 percentage points lower in 2022, while ADR was 5.4%, higher and revpar was 12.7% lower.
AHATA receives data from a sample of 21 hotels with 5,271 rooms, about 93% of all hotel rooms.
Aruba’s timeshare resorts reported an average occupancy of 85% in June 2022.
AHATA forecasts an average hotel room occupancy of 86% for July, 78% for August, 71% for September and 74% for 2022 overall.
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The majority of Canadians have no interest in international travel this summer: Nanos survey
Spencer Van Dyk CTVNews.ca July 9, 2022
OTTAWA -- A new survey by Nanos Research shows three in five Canadians are not interested in travelling internationally this summer.
According to the survey, commissioned by CTV News, 61 per cent aren’t making any international travel plans at all, while six per cent of Canadians said they had international travel plans this summer and cancelled them. Another three per cent said they had booked international travel but may still cancel their trips.
Twelve per cent of travellers remain undeterred with their travel plans and have no intention to cancel them.
The survey comes as travellers have been plagued by long wait times at both airports and passport offices, and with inflation at a 40-year record of 7.7 per cent.
The Canadian Press reported this week that Air Canada and Toronto's Pearson airport rank number one worldwide for flight delays. The massive wait times and flight cancellations have led Air Canada to temporarily ban pets from baggage holds.
Meanwhile, at passport offices, Service Canada is struggling to catch up with the wave of requests following a lull during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Canadians aged 55 plus are most likely to say they have no interest in travelling internationally this summer (69 per cent) compared to younger Canadians (18-34: 53 per cent; 35-54: 58 per cent),” the survey states. “Those aged 18 to 34 are more than twice as likely to say they want to travel internationally but have no plans (22 per cent) than those aged 55 plus (9 per cent).”
The Nanos Research survey also sought to gauge Canadians’ level of concern about another wave of COVID-19. The numbers show the majority of those surveyed have some level of concern another wave of COVID-19 this fall could prompt governments to bring back certain restrictions.
“A majority of Canadians are worried (16 per cent) or somewhat worried (39 per cent) that this fall there will be another pandemic wave which will be serious enough to bring back restrictions such as mandatory mask wearing, social distancing and the limiting of gatherings, while about two in five are not worried (23 per cent) or somewhat not worried (19 per cent),” the Nanos survey states.
Though the provinces have dropped most restrictions, there’s been a recent surge in cases in many parts of the country.
METHODOLOGY:
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land-and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,002 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between June 30thand July 4th, 2022 as part of an omnibus survey. Participants were randomly recruited by telephone using live agents and administered a survey online. The sample included both land-and cell-lines across Canada. The results were statistically checked and weighted by age and gender using the latest Census information and the sample is geographically stratified to be representative of Canada.
Individuals randomly called using random digit dialing with a maximum of five call backs.
The margin of error for this survey is ±3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
This study was commissioned by CTV News and the research was conducted by Nanos Research.
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Trinidad and Tobago received 20,119 stopover visitors in June 2022, 10.2% more than the 18,254 stopover visitors received in May.
According to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office Trinidad and Tobago received 20,119 stopover visitors in June 2022, an increase of 10.2% compared with the 18,254 stopovers received in May 2022.
Trinidad received 19,334 stopover visitors in June 2022 with Tobago receiving 785.
Trinidad and Tobago closed its borders as of March 23rd 2020, and consequently just received a total of 472 stopover visitors in June 2021. The country reopened its borders to visitors as of July 17th 2021.