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

The line graph illustrates information about one specific island in the Caribbean which was visited by tourists in a

period

from 2010 to 2017.

Overall

, the total

number

of

visitors

experienced an upward trend during the

period

.

Although

the

number

of tourists who stayed on the island and those who stayed on cruise ships went up, the

number

of the second group exceeded the first one in the

last

two years of the

period

.

To begin

with, the total

number

of

visitors

, increased moderately from 1

million

visitors

in 2010 to more than 2.5

million

in 2015. After that, it remained unchanged for one year and

then

rocketed until the end of the

period

. Turning to the stay location, both groups of

visitors

witnessed a similar trend until 2015. The

number

of those who stayed on the island was about 700,000 in 2010 and

then

increased gradually to 1.5

million

visitors

in 2017.

However

, the

number

of the other group saw a slight fluctuation at the beginning of the

period

, but it climbed substantially

so that

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exceeding the

number

of the first group in the year 2015

then

reached 2

million

visitors

in 2017.