Annual Travel Statistics 2011.pdf - Jamaica Tourist Board

to grow during this period by 4.8% with 104,338 visitors.For the summer period (May – December), the US market fell by 1.3% compared to 2010and rose 2.9% over 2009 stopoverarrivals. Summer arrivals in 2011 were804,715. In 2010, 815,623 stopoverarrivals came during summer and in2009, 781,999 stopover arrivals visited.During the summer season, arrivals fromthe Midwestern and Western regionsincreased by 3.6%, and 4.4%, while theNortheastern and Southern regionsdeclined by 4.2% and 1.6%, respectively.The Northeastern and Southern regions contributed 70.8% of the US stopover visitors toJamaica during 2011. This represents 1.4 percentage points less than its contribution in2010. The Midwest region contributed 18.9% of the stopover arrivals and 10.3% of thestopover visitors came from the Western region. The USA marketing regions recordedmixed results in arrivals for 2011 over 2010. The Northeast and the South decreased by4.2% and 1.4%, while the Midwest and the Western regions grew by 4.1% and 1.9%.Overall, arrivals from the USA market declined 1.4% in 2011 with 1,225,565 over1,242,943 stopovers in 2010.Overview 2011xiii