The graph below shows the number of tourists visting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where revelant.

The given chart depicts the number of visitors to a Caribbean

island

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, divided by travel itinerary, from the period of 2010 and 2017.

It is clear that

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in general, there is an upward trend in the total sum of tourists, with a more than threefold increase from 1

million

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in 2010 to 3.5

million

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in 2017.

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was apparently contributed by the growing popularity of the cruise ship tour to the

island

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. The number of visitors choosing to stay on cruise ships stood at just under 500,000 at the beginning of 2010 before doubling to 1

million

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in 2011 and slightly declining to the starting point in 2012. Over the subsequent years, the recovery lasted through 2017, by which time the number of cruise tourists climbed to a peak of 2

million

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. Meanwhile, the

overall

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figure of visitors who chose to remain on the

island

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did not experience

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a dramatic increase. There was hardly any change during the period from 2010 to 2011 as less than 1

million

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people stay on the

island

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in these 2 years. There was a significant increase starting from 2011 to 2013, followed by the trend remaining constant at 1.5

million

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until 2015. After that, a slight decline can be witnessed at the beginning of 2016 before the highest point was reached at 1.5

million

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tourists in 2017.