CARIBBEAN OVERVIEW
GERMANY The two biggest destinations, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, both saw falls of 10.4% in the number of German visitors in the first half of the year. Cuba remains the most popular, with almost 106,000 Germans, with its closest rival at more than 102,000. Nearest rival Jamaica fell 14.6% to 14,650. Lufthansa began a Frankfurt-Barbados service in
October, with three flights a week. Budget carrier Condor began a weekly flight from Frankfurt to Curacao last December and, consequently, Curacao saw a 24.1% rise in German visitors to almost 10,000 in the first five months of 2019.
RISE IN TOURIST NUMBERS
Maarten (up 452% to almost 16,000), Anguilla, Puerto Rico and Dominica. Air Canada (NA400) will run a second weekly
flight from Toronto to St Kitts for the first time from 11 February to 14 April 2020. Budget subsidiary Air Canada Rouge will operate a second weekly flight to St Vincent from Toronto from 15 December.
THE UK Arrivals from the UK grew only 0.1% in the first quarter to 300,000 with the pound’s weakness against the dollar suppressing demand. Half-year figures are more positive, with only Cuba and the Dominican Republic showing negative results. Barbados (CA220), Jamaica and St Lucia
(CA207) dominated the UK market in the first half of 2019. Barbados extended its share in the first half of the year by 8.6% to 127,000, with Jamaica growing 5.2% to 108,000. However, Cuba saw UK arrivals plummet 22% to 84,500 and the Dominican Republic’s share fell 15.3% to 74,000. St Lucia’s UK arrivals were up 13% to more than
43,000. British Airways will increase flights from Gatwick to St Lucia from daily to nine a week from 4 June to 29 August 2020. BA’s move comes after Virgin Atlantic revealed it would cease flights to the island next June after more than 20 years. Virgin is instead increasing Antigua (CA245) services from three to four a week from 8 June next year.
THE NETHERLANDS Curacao has taken the bulk of Netherlands tourism this year, with more than 83,500 arrivals in the year until May, up 11.8%. Sint Maarten, which was heavily damaged in 2017, saw arrivals increase by 14.2% to 15,600 in the first half of the year, just surpassing the Dominican Republic. Fourth-place Aruba (CA240) saw Dutch arrivals increase 13.6% to 4,150. Dutch interest in Guyana (CA246) may rise following the launch of a connecting flight from Paramaribo in Suriname in September. The two-hour Trans Guyana Airways service to Georgetown links with KLM’s twice-weekly Amsterdam-Paramaribo flight.
SPAIN Spain’s two biggest Caribbean destinations, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, saw arrivals fall in the first half of the year. The Dominican Republic’s share of Spanish arrivals fell 2.5% to almost 71,000, while Cuba suffered a 15% drop to just less than 63,000. CTO figures show only two other destinations, Puerto Rico (NA100) and Jamaica, having more than 2,000 Spanish arrivals so far in 2019. Puerto Rico was given a boost with Iberia’s decision to make its Madrid-San Juan route year-round earlier this year.
ITALY Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica dominate the market from Italy, with Cuba accounting for almost 80,000 Italian visitors in the first half of the year. This figure was down 19.4%, but is still far ahead of the Dominican Republic’s 46,000, which showed a slight 4.4% rise. Antigua and Barbuda were the fourth most popular destination, with just fewer than 4,000 visitors. Fifth-place Belize, which is popular with divers, saw almost 1,500 Italian visitors and was the only other destination to register in excess of 1,000 Italian arrivals in the first half of 2019.
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Us 24% Uk 0.1%
canada 4%
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