Tourist arrivals (stay over visitors), which account for 42.9 per cent of the total visitor arrivals, increased by 7 per cent over 2002.

20. In 1996, tourist arrivals totalled six million, compared to 5.5 million in 1995.

Moreover, growth in international tourist arrivals had been faster in the developing world than in high income countries, particularly between 1990 and 2003.

In 1996 tourist arrivals topped the one million mark, and visitors spent an estimated 310 million.

However, the lack of mega cruise ship arrivals contributed to the overall decline in tourist numbers.14

In 2004, international tourist arrivals worldwide reached an all time record of 763 million, up 11 per cent over the previous year (World Tourism Organization, 2005).

With tourist arrivals in the country plummeting, authorities had worried that the number of visitors to this year's pilgrimage would be sharply down.

28. Large scale tourism construction projects are in progress or due to begin, and new investment projects are expected to stimulate tourist arrivals.

40. Visitors from the United States of America continued to dominate Anguilla s tourist market during 1997, accounting for 61.7 per cent (an increase of 6.1 per cent) of tourist arrivals. Although arrivals from the Caribbean fell by 10.9 per cent, the region still maintains its position as the second most important source market, with 19.7 per cent of the overall total.

According to information provided by the administering Power, tourist arrivals dropped 3.9 per cent, from 82,862 to 79,618, during the first 10 months of 2004 year on end.

Passenger arrivals for 2004 were as follows air arrivals, 157,016 ferry arrivals, 24,833 cruise visitors, 162,780 and visitor arrivals by land, 7,311,555.

Data released by the Czech Tourism Authority showed that the number of Chinese tourist arrivals to the Czech Republic has soared from 80,000 in 2010 to 250,000 in 2014.

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According to the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), the number of international tourism arrivals is expected to increase by 4.1 per cent annually to reach close to 1.6 billion international arrivals by the year 2020.

Arrivals and departures

In many countries, domestic tourism outweighs international arrivals in terms of volume and income generated.

Although Europe, the Americas, and East Asia and the Pacific will account for 80 per cent of total arrivals, and thus continue to dominate in terms of volume, international tourist arrivals to Africa are forecast to grow, on average, by 5.5 per cent per year during this period and those to South Asia by more than 6 per cent, compared with a world average of just over 4 per cent.

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A strategic plan to revive the tourism industry has been commissioned by the Government and is due for publication in mid 2005. Tourist arrivals peaked at 209,000 in 2000, but subsequently slumped to around 100,000 a year.

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These figures relate only to international travel in most countries the volume of domestic tourism is significantly greater than international arrivals.

International tourism arrivals (million) and receipts ( billion) for the top 10 developed and developing countries in 2003

The Government has increased the budgetary allocation for marketing substantially, the aim being to increase the number of tourist arrivals by 15,085 and to increase hotel occupancy rates from 45 per cent to 60 per cent in 2005.1

Tourist arrivals totalled 43,181 in 1997, a 15.1 per cent increase over the 37,498 in 1996, the most significant increase being in the winter months, which showed a 25.7 per cent increase over the same period in 1996.

Air arrivals reached 194,000 in 2003 and stop over arrivals by boats accounted for a further 256,000 visitors.

There were 61,743 hotel arrivals in 2003, an increase over 2002, in which 53,417 hotel arrivals were registered.

Bangkok Tourist Bureau

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Month Arrivals Departures Month end strength

Hotel arrivals in 1996 were 46,000.

Visitor arrivals in 2004 exceeded 1.15 million, which represented a 27 per cent increase from arrivals registered for 2003.

East Asia and the Pacific have attracted over 55 per cent of international tourism arrivals in developing countries.

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New arrivals from Mainland China 300 101

Arrivals from the Republic of Korea remained steady, while visitor arrivals from Taiwan Province of China increased by 29 per cent.

Table 1 compares international tourism arrivals and receipts in the top 10 destinations in developed and developing countries in 2003.

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