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2015’s Last Quarter Was Strong For Tourism
posted (January 20, 2016)

As we've been reporting, 2016 has been a rough year for Belize's image as a tourist destination, but 2015 was a bumper year, according to BTB's figures. Today the Belize Tourism Board sent a release with a recap of their tourist numbers for 2015. The report focused on the number of overnight tourism which showed a strong increase in the last two quarters of the year when compared to 2014. In September there was an increase of 19.3%, in October 22.1%, in November 33% and in December 22.5 %. BTB also makes note that the November increase of 33% is the largest increase ever recorded for that month, which rarely goes above 10%. Furthermore in December BTB recorded a total of 39,977 overnight visitors to Belize- the closest number to 40 thousand tourists that a month has ever recorded in overnight arrivals.

There were several things that factored in to the record breaking performance of 2015 as it relates to overnight tourism. One of them is the introduction of two new flights to Belize: South West and COPA Airlines.

Now in the area of cruise passenger arrivals BTB recorded a minor dip of 1% .This translates into 3,070 fewer passengers arriving in Belize in 2015 than in 2014.

BTB ended their release by saying that Americans continue to be the largest group of visitors making up 63.1% of the overall arrivals. They are followed by Europeans and Canadians at 12% and 7% respectively.

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