The graph below shows a number of tourists visiting a particular carribean island between 2010 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph displays the

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of

tourists

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that visited an unnamed Caribbean

island

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between 2010 and 2017. The

tourists

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are divided into two groups – those staying on

cruise

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ships

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and those staying on the

island

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itself – and these had a loosely inverse correlation. The total

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of visitors,

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, rose more or less continuously throughout the eight-year period. In the first year recorded, which was 2010, there were about twice as many

tourists

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staying on the

island

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as those staying on

cruise

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ships

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. A year later, the

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staying on

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ships

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doubled to a half

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, but

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dropped back to around a quarter

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in 2012. When the figures for

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on

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ships

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dropped, the

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staying on the

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rose quickly and over the coming few years, as

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sudden increase levelled off, the

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of people who stayed onboard their ship continued to grow again. Between 2012 and 2017, there were more and more visitors staying on

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ships

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. From just a quarter

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,

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rose to two

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,

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the figures for those on the

island

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levelled off at just one and a half

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and

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dropped slightly in the penultimate year, before finishing at one and a half.

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meant that, for the final two years, more

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stayed on

cruise

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ships

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than on the

island

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.