Bangkok--Sep 29--eTurbo news
The number of tourists visiting Trinidad & Tobago during the period of January to May 2004 has increased by 10.2 percent over the same period in 2003, according to the latest release of travel data.
The new figures from the Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad & Tobago (TIDCO) 58.2 percent of all incoming visitors were leisure and vacation travelers and the largest market share of visitors originated from the USA. "The largest number of visitors originated from the US," says Warren Solomon, vice president of tourism.
65,475 US residents visited Trinidad and Tobago from January to May this year; 8,854 or 16 percent more visitors as compared to the corresponding period last year, according to TIDCO.
The new TIDCO figures also show that traffic from Europe increased by 6,527 or 18.5 percent, from 35,258 in 2003 to 41,785 in 2004. Tourist arrivals to Tobago also increased significantly for the period, with 28,623 visitors arrivals. This is an increase of 18 percent over the corresponding period last year, TIDCO figures reveal.
TIDCO figures also reveals that the number of visitors for the 2003 Carnival season was one of the record highs since 1997, totaling 40,455. "With this encouraging trend, TIDCO is confident that projections for overall visitor arrivals for 2004 will be exceeded," adds Solomon.
TIDCO's goal is "to market and promote Brand T&T." It has been pursuing several niche-marketing strategies to raise the international profile of our destination, including advertising in a number of popular international publications, participating in tourism trade shows, such as the International Tourism Exchange (ITB) in Berlin and the World Travel Market (WTM) in London.
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