American Tourists Keep Traveling to Grenada

With the final numbers tallied, destination Pure Grenada records total arrivals of 100,654 for January 2018, an increase of more than 30 percent over January 2017 (75,600). 

In addition, all visitor categories reflected an increase including Stay over (13, 815) up by 13 percent, Cruise (82,797) up by 37 percent and Yachting (4,042) up by 43 percent.

To further support the destination’s developing tourism industry, the Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) and the Grenada Airports Authority (GAA) representatives attended Routes America 2018 from 13 – 15, February in Quito, Ecuador and met with 10 airlines to discuss expansion of service or new routes.

The interest in Grenada is growing and with the 16 percent growth in arrivals from the US market (67,250) in 2017 over 2016 and US market share at an all-time high of 46 percent, this strong performance data piqued the interest of the US based airlines.

Building on this momentum, the marketing and sales team attended the New York Times Travel Show, CHTA Marketplace in Puerto Rico, Boston Globe Show and the Telegraph Travel Show in London in the first two months of the year.

Virgin Atlantic in collaboration with Unilad Adventure launched a destination video on social media that shares the many reasons to visit Grenada, Spice of the Caribbean in 2018.

With all this heightened activity, the GTA forecasts a 6 percent growth in total visitor arrivals performance for 2018 that will benefit all the citizens of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

Source: eturbonews.com