Ho hum…tourism figures up

We hope that the B.T.B. continues to send press releases when the tourism picture becomes less rosy…but for now that concern is not a factor as for the last seventeen consecutive months, tourist arrivals have increased over the previous year, setting new records in sixteen of those months. According to the latest release, visitors arriving through the Philip Goldson International Airport increased by four point five percent in March and three point two percent in April, totalling nineteen thousand, nine hundred and seventeen, and fourteen thousand six hundred and thirty-five respectively. When you add in tourists arriving over land the numbers get even better, demonstrating a thirteen point four percent increase for the first quarter over 2003.