Impressive Statistics for Tourist Arrivals
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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics
For the latest news across Belize, visit: http://edition.channel5belize.com/ The Belize Tourism Board has released impressive statistics for tourist arrivals up to the third quarter of 2018. Since the beginning of the year, there have been over three hundred and seventy-two thousand overnight tourists arriving in the Jewel; this is a sixteen point six percent increase over 2017. Director of Marketing and Industry Relations, Karen Pike says that by the end of the year, it is hoped that a half a million persons would have spent at least an overnight in Belize. As it relates to cruise ship arrivals, the figures have almost doubled in the last three months, leading to an overall increase of nineteen point nine percent since the start of the year. Pike say Belize is well on the way to exceeding the one million cruise ship tourist arrival mark again.
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