The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017.

The line chart illustrates the trends of foreigners staying on a Caribbean island for seven years, from 2010 to 2017 (in millions).

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, the total amount of people increased significantly over the whole period,

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the figure of tourists staying on either cruise ships or islands showed reversed each other. Regarding the total number, we see that the proportion of travellers generally had rose consistently.

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started with 1000 thousand tourists visiting Caribbean islands in 2010,

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, soaring consistently to almost threefold. From 2015 to 2016,

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, the trend had to hit a plateau before soaring again to the highest point of 350 thousand guests. Turning to foreigners staying on the island,

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the figure was stable between 2010 and 2011 with just under 1000 thousand people, after that, it slightly rose and stagnant until 2015 to one and a half ton foreign travellers, before hitting its lowest point at approximately 1.25 ton.

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, the number of guests staying on cruise ships fluctuated and soared

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, fluctuating from 0.25 to 0.5 million between 2010 and 2012,

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rose consistently and reached its highest point of 2 million tourists.