Tourists flocked to the Caribbean last year in numbers not seen since the pandemic began, with the Dutch Caribbean and U.S. territories like Puerto Rico surpassing even pre-pandemic visitor arrivals, officials said Tuesday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tourists flocked to the Caribbean last year in numbers not seen since the pandemic began, with theand U.S. territories like Puerto Rico surpassing even pre-pandemic visitor arrivals, officials said Tuesday.
“It’s clearly apparent that even in the face of the devastating blows delivered by the pandemic, as a region, we have responded with hope, strength and determination to prevail,”The U.S. market drove more than 50% of arrivals to the region last year with 14.6 million U.S. tourists visiting - three million more than the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of European visitors nearly doubled to 5.2 million. Visits from Canadians, though, did not rebound as expected, with some 2.
“The Caribbean region one of the quickest recovery rates in 2022,” said Neil Walters, the tourism organization’s acting secretary general.
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